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...York World's Fair President Robert Moses, 75, in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital, "doing exceptionally well" after prostatic surgery; U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin Reischauer, 53, in Honolulu's U.S. Army Tripler General Hospital with a "presumptive diagnosis" of hepatitis, which hospital officials say developed independent of the nearly healed thigh wound inflicted last March by a deranged Japanese youth; British Spy Greville Wynne, 45, in London's Gordon Hospital "in an excitable and disturbed mental state" as a result of his 17-month Communist imprisonment...
Only three hours after he had been stabbed by an astigmatic fanatic, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin Reischauer, 53, felt chipper enough to reassure the Japanese that the attack in no way changed his "deep regard" for them. But Reischauer's diplomatic nonchalance was not enough to reassure the mortified Japanese government: the Home Affairs Minister, who had lost more face than Reischauer had blood, resigned. Next day Premier Hayato Ikeda so-sorried in Japanese (with English subtitles) directly to the U.S. via Relay II satellite. As far as Ambassador Reischauer was concerned, the whole affair was just another...
John C. Pelzel, professor of Anthropology, has been appointed director of the Harvard Yenching Institute. The post has been vacant since 1961, when Edwin O. Reischauer retired to become ambassador to Japan...
...Japanese, however, a professor in public life is an extraordinarily novel occurrence. Reischauer seems to delight in the fact that he consequently puzzles that Japanese no end. They knew him as a scholar, but now he comes to them in the guise of a politician, an Ambassador. He believes that much of the trust and respect which he personally is accorded results primarily from his scholarly reputation. The singular Capidity with which the Japanese government approved his appointment two-and-a-half years ago probably was due to this deep personal respect which they have...
...effect Reischauer's government service will have upon his scholarly career will be to make him a specialist in modern Japanese history, although he began as an ancient historian. Previously he had explored fairly extensive areas of Far Eastern history, but had only taken a "few brief looks at modern history." He obviously retains his love for the academic world, but claims he has made no plans for his post-government employment. As I left him, however, there was little doubt in my mind that he would return to pedagogy: the interview had lasted exactly 53 minutes...