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Such corporate ability is bound to attract attention outside academe. Last week Perkins submitted his resignation to Delaware's board of trustees, announced that in September he will become president of Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., where he will serve under Chairman and Chief Executive J. Wilson Newman...
Perkins will find Dun & Bradstreet as complicated as a multiversity. The mainstay of the 126-year-old firm is still its credit-reporting service, whose 80,000 subscribers can get a rating on any of 3,000,000 firms. Dun & Bradstreet also publishes magazines, including Dun's Review, turns out Moody investors' manuals, is involved in plant-location studies through its recent acquisition of the Fantus Co. The Reuben H. Donnelley Corp., another subsidiary, puts out such bibles as telephone books and the Official Airline Guide. The parent company also operates a mutual fund, Moody's Fund...
...strikers were straight out of the Social Register, Who's Who and Dun & Bradstreet: Cornelius Vanderbilt Whit ney, Ogden Phipps and Captain Harry Guggenheim, to name just a few. Their spokesman was Jack Dreyfus Jr., senior partner of Dreyfus & Co., the Wall Street investment house. Dreyfus & Companions are horse owners, and what got them riled up last week was the failure of the New York legislature to enact a bill that would have resulted in higher purses at the state's thoroughbred racing tracks. It got them so angry that they refused to run their horses at Aqueduct...
...abrupt, resonant dialogue that forms the midsection of Bradstreet, Berryman was influenced by Anna Karenina and by Saul Bellow's novel Augie March, which he had just read in manuscript: "very ambitious, totally unlike most modern novels. It threw me the feeling that if I appeared to go outside the ordinary sort of business, that would be all right." The absence of any clear poetic precedent forces the reader to make a major revision of his conventional expectations...
...second answer runs deeper. Talk about Berryman keeps coming back to subject-matter, to content rather than form, to purposes rather than techniques. Just as the subject of Bradstreet, in the deepest sense, is Bradstreet, the Dream Songs are "about" Henry by God, and if Berryman's public descriptions of Henry are cagey, he is no more willing to divert the audience with coy adversions to his own skills or state of mind. For a long time poetry in this country has been working with an arsenal of familiar tools--"effects," "devices" and "meanings"--all largely technical considerations. Such...