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...such a job that in 1939 "friends in Dun & Bradstreet" asked him to run Baltimore's 72-year-old and-limping C. D. Kenny Co., wholesale grocers. He soon controlled the company. In 1942 he bought into Chicago's Sprague, Warner Co., the Midwest's biggest wholesale grocer, and merged it with Kenny...
...Dun also knows that his election took place in a convention not free from ill will. Dissatisfaction arose when the nominating committee, headed by Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts, picked four candidates, all of them liberals, all graduates of Dr. Dun's Cambridge school. Both high and low church groups resented the committee's failure to put any but broad-church candidates on the slate. One group, which favored New York City's young Dr. C. Avery Mason, charged that their candidate was a victim of politics in the best Washington style. Mason ran second...
Definite Dean. Brown-eyed, greying Bishop-elect Dun was baptized in the Dutch Reformed Church, thinks he went to Sunday school about twice. At Yale, under the influence of Historian Henry
Wright, young Dun took an interest in religion, became an Episcopalian. He spent one year in parish work (St. Andrew's Church, Ayer, Mass.), then 23 years at the seminary of which he is now head...
...Episcopalians in the Washington diocese (the District of Columbia and four adjoining Maryland counties) will find Dun an accessible, sociable man, full of common sense. He is well-bred, well-read. His chief relaxation: going over his household and seminary accounts. "When I get a little tired," he says, "I like to do the accounts, because they are so definite. Spiritual problems are seldom definite...