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Other interesting goings-on include "Artists Under Twenty" at the Concord Art Assoc. through June 2, a new exhibit of Tatsuzo Shimaoka Pottery from Mashiko, Japan at Art/Asia on Story St. and an exhibit by Dennis Batt at the Nasrudin Gallery on Newbury St. intriguingly entitled "Intricate Conceptions in Gouache...
Died. William Batt, 79, longtime (1923-50) president of Philadelphia's S.K.F. ball-bearing empire, who as a National Defense adviser in 1940 blew the whistle on U.S. industry's initial "business as usual" policy, snorting "you can't stop a fleet of tanks with a row of electric ice boxes," later as deputy commissioner of the War Production Board under Donald Nelson swiftly commandeered the essential raw materials needed to get history's biggest arms buildup under way in quick time; of a stroke; in Delray Beach...
...praise to the hardworking, intelligent community leaders who have helped Hazleton back to economic stability. But let's not forget that their work could not have been accomplished without considerable aid from the state of Pennsylvania and the Federal Government. Which is as it should be. WILLIAM L. BATT JR. Administrator...
WILLIAM L. BATT JR. Secretary...
...second : the board steam roller flattened Wolfson's plea for a committee to search out a new president, smoothly named Chairman Barr to that post as well. When the meeting ended, Wolfson, shut out completely, was near inarticulate and trembling with rage. If he continues his batt'e for control of Ward's, he will have to fight a tough...