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...Kusaka...
Smith girls, drifting into pretty Northampton for college's opening last week, found the place in a town v. gown stew. A. Burns Chalmers, the college's pacifistic Quaker chaplain, is host to a 27-year-old mathematical physicist, Schuichi Kusaka, born in Japan, newly appointed to the Smith faculty. Kusaka was in Northampton with the approval of the FBI, but some townsmen had found his presence unfair "to those who have died...
...Town. Kusaka had been denounced by two American Legionnaires (Jeweler Edward John Gare Jr. and Dentist John E. Boland), supported by employes of the state insane asylum, members of the Hampshire County Grange, the building trades unions, and the Hampshire Gazette. Threats had been made to tar & feather Kusaka, to dump him into Paradise Pond, traditional scene of campus spooning. Tomatoes were mistakenly heaved into the house of a French professor...
Gown. Schuichi Kusaka was born in Osaka, left Japan when he was four, got his elementary education in Vancouver schools. He made a brilliant record at the Universities of British Columbia and California, M.I.T. and Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study (TIME, Aug. 9), was recommended to Smith by a Chinese physicist, Miss Chien Shiung Wu. In perfect English, Kusaka declared his opposition to the Emperor of Japan but, as shy as he was able, preferred not to enter the controversy. The staid Springfield Republican, said: "Come, let us be reasonable. The protest was . . . injudicious. . . .Tolerance . . . will...