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...morning of Aug. 6, 1945, Dr. Fumio Shigeto was waiting in line for a trolley to take him to Hiroshima's Red Cross Hospital. A nurse he knew waved to him, inviting him to join her near the front of the queue. Not wanting to push ahead of the people in front of him, Shigeto declined the offer. At that moment there was a blinding flash, followed by a deafening boom. Most of the people in the line were hurled to the ground, burned and bleeding. Shigeto, who was sheltered by the corner of a reinforced-concrete building, survived...
...best-known of Hiroshima's "atomic doctors," Shigeto, now 72, has spent the 30 years since that dreadful day caring for the victims of history's first atomic attack. He has refused almost all requests for interviews. Last week, following his retirement (to settle in a home on the outskirts of the city and "raise carrots with my wife"), Shigeto consented to talk to TIME Correspondent S. Chang and reminisce about his escape-and the work it enabled...
...will be Dennis W. Brogan, professor of Political Science at the University of Cambridge; John E. Burchard, Dean of Humanities and Social Science at M.I.T.; Norton E. Long, professor of Political Science at Northwestern University; Carl E. Schorsks, professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley; and Shigeto Tsuru, professor of Economics at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo...
...Science at Yale; Viktor E. Frankl, professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Vienna; Sidney Hook, professor of Philosophy at New York University; Michael Jaffe, fellow of King's College, University of Cambrige; John F. Kermode, John Edward Taylor Professor of English at the University of Manchester, Shigeto Tsuru, professor of Economics at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo; and Horace Armistead, professor of Design at Boston University...
Conference papers will consider cities dating back as far as the 15th century and from all areas of the world. Among the scholars are a Japanese-Shigeto Tsuru, professor of Economics at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo--and two eminent Englishmen--Dennis brogan, professor of Political Science at Cambridge, and Sir John Summerson, an Architeotural historian and curator of Sir John Soane's Museum in London...