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...BATTEN Des Moines, Iowa...
Last month, the Charlotte Observer wound up a searching seven-week report on conditions among North Carolina's poor, both black and white. Reporters Dwayne Walls and James Batten even traveled to Chicago and Washington to discover how North Carolina migrants were faring; most were disillusioned and not doing much better than they had done at home...
...Walter Thompson; McCann-Erickson; Young & Rubicam; Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn; Ted Bates; Foote, Cone & Belding; Leo Burnett; Doyle Dane Bernbach; Grey Advertising; and Ogilvy & Mather, according to Advertising Age's ranking...
Black Power sentiment is fed, among other things, by the urban Negro's pent-up resentment of the white businessmen who make their living from the slum's daily needs. These white-run enterprises, blacks complain, not only batten on the ghetto's misery by overcharging for shoddy goods but also siphon off their profits from Negro neighborhoods and seldom employ black workers...
Died. Bruce Barton, 80, dean of Madison Avenue, last surviving founder of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn; of bronchial pneumonia; in Manhattan (see THE NATION...