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Time abroad--especially in China and India--is becoming as "essential as an M.B.A. for a top executive's résumé," says Stacie Nevadomski Berdan, co-author with C. Perry Yeatman of Get Ahead by Going Abroad. The only problem is that the go-go growth and business style of emerging Asia can get into an executive's blood--so much so that he or she finds it hard to go back to headquarters. "I get a lot of résumés from executives just as they're being called back from an assignment," says Benjamin Zhai, head of China...
There is an adage that people get the kind of government they deserve. My question: What crimes did America commit over the past 200 years to merit being shackled today with a travesty like influence peddlers [NATION, March 3]? Marshall S. Berdan Washington...
After Woodmere, Seamon went to Yale, majored in English, went out for boxing, developed his writing in Professor John Berdan's daily-theme course. Commissioned a Marine lieutenant on graduation in 1940 (he is now a retired light colonel), he was in flight school on Dec. 7, 1941. After a series of courses in radar and electronics at Harvard and M.I.T., Pilot Seamon was assigned to a photo-mapping outfit. At the controls of a PB4Y-I, he and his crew dodged flack and fought off enemy fighters to make a map for the invasion of Guam...
...none ever considered itself captive. Sizer not only became a leading authority on American art, he also grew into something of a legend. Last week, at 65, as he prepared to retire from teaching, he was already as much a part of Yale lore as John ("Daily Themes") Berdan, William Lyon Phelps and the crotchety Johnsonian, Chauncey Brewster Tinker...
Bishop, John, Jr. '52, Braisted, Richard Connor '50, Gardner, John Berdan '51, McElroy, Charles Aloysius, Jr. '51, Post, Michael St. Anthony '49, Putnam, Augustus Lowell '49, Scully, Francis Paul, Jr. '51 (Captain), Whitney, George Hayward, Jr. '50, Carroll, Tom Jay '52 (Manager...