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...Christmas in August. Last week, at the firm's modern one-story plant, some 1,000 employees worked round the clock in three shifts to produce gift-wrapping paper for the 1967 holiday season. Traveling around the premises in an electric golf cart was President Joseph M. Katz, 54. Shouting to make himself heard above the roar of the presses, through which rolled 600 miles of paper daily, Katz exulted: "You can't eliminate Santa Claus...
...Since Katz founded the company in 1945 on an investment of $10,000, Papercraft has become the world's largest maker of gift wrappings. Last year sales amounted to more than $24 million, almost twice those of 1962. For the first half of this year, sales are up 38% over the same period of 1966-although Katz would be the first to admit that this figure means little, since 90% of his annual business derives from the American penchant for placing prettily wrapped presents beneath the Christmas tree. This fact does not disturb Katz in the least...
...Forlorn Servicemen. Katz is a remarkable mixture of opportunist and traditionalist. Born in Odessa of Russian-Jewish parents, he came to the U.S. as an infant, at the age of 14 was given a tiny printing press by his father. He used it to print letterheads and menus, and to turn out a magazine called Boy's Ideal, which eventually gained a circulation of 2,500 at 250 per annual subscription. He took his earnings and went to the University of Pittsburgh, but dropped out during...
...economy-size rectangles of flat color (one each of red, yellow and blue) covering 89 sq. ft. Alfred Jensen's four-paneled impasto consists of dozens of big squares, little squares, houndstooth checks, checkerboards and signal flags-all in a canvas measuring 7 ft. by 28 ft. Alex Katz deftly pinpoints a life-size Lawn Party, in a realistically painted 9-ft. by 12-ft. canvas populated by all his friends and neighbors down in Maine...
...SIDNEY KATZ...