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Sculptor Louise Nevelson; author and critic V.S. Pritchett; Japanese economist Shigeto Tsuru '35; and medical pharmacologist Sir John W. Black round out this year's list of honoraries, which is one less than last year's 11 honorands...
...Shigeto Tsuru '35, economist, professor, former president of Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo...
...Shigeto Tsuru '35, who is in town for the 50th reunion of his undergraduate class, has for the past decade been editorial adviser of The Asa n Shimbun, a Tokyo-based newspaper with a circulation of close to eight million...
...Shigeto became head of the city's Red Cross Hospital in 1948 and assumed the directorship of the newly built Atomic Bomb Memorial Hospital in 1956. But he still found time to treat bomb victims. "I'm a bedside physician," he said. "It's my duty to do all I can for them." His patients were reassured by his calm, Buddha-like demeanor. Said a woman suffering from a bomb-induced cancer, "I feel relieved each time he even smiles...
Like most Hiroshimans, Shigeto is a pacifist. He believes that "the nobility of human spirit will surely prevent" another Hiroshima. "Isn't it strange," he says, "that the worst disaster in human history should have turned me into a helpless optimist?" Indeed, despite his city's ordeal, Shigeto has been so impressed by the strength and courage displayed by Hiroshima's victims that he has unbounded faith in man's prospects for survival. That feeling was bolstered recently when he learned that the first two victims he treated after the blast are still alive today...