November 24, 1957

Dear Francis:
To yours of the 12th.

My immediate circle does not include many young men who would fit
teuching-wice in Zoology, but I do heve one suggestion which should be
very appealing indeed: Maury Susemgen. You will want and have to offer
him an Associate Professorship; the remarkable thing is that you probably
could get him within the ‘limitations on rank' that you nentioned. I think
he has acquired the reputation that might be needed to persuade the admini-
stration. He is not so acutely unhappy at Northwestern now as he has been,
but I feel nyself, and expect he would agree, that he would be happier and
more productive in the larger environment of Columbia. His wife Raquel
de, I might add, a very fine worker indeed (if you hapren not to know them
as well as I assumed, she was the junior author on the Hershey and Rotman
Classic on phage recombination) and would be an asset in many ways beyond
her scientific ability as well. But for the present, Raquel ia tied up
with a new baby so that issue is momentarily an academic one. My heart
warms to the idea of Sussman at Columbia, from your standpoint as well as
hie, and I hepe you will giva it careful consideration.

I will have to enquire of Jim Crow and some other soologists for
other possibilities. I assume you would not want to stress a too nonspologi-
Cal nth-order replica of yourself, or you would already have thought, for
example, of Norton Zinder. I would suggest that you ask Dan Masia about
my brother Seymour, whose professed interests are in ‘cell physiology', not-
withstanding hia training with Luria. Seymour spent the last two years with
Dan on a postdoctoral fellowship, and is acting this year as ‘Visiting
Acsistant Professor of Bacteriology’, vice Roger Stanier, and doing Roger's
scourge in Physiology. Hie research at Berkeley has deen on the flow of
nucleic acid from nucleus to oytoplasm in Tetrahymena.

Speaking of protozoa, Dave Nanney would be worth thinking of. I've
been far from the grapevine, but rumor tells of some diccouragenment at
Zoology st Ann Arbor, especially after Markert left. But I suspect his
price would be higher than Maury's, and I myself would go after Maury
firet in the circumstances. You will, of course, havc been consulting
Tracy about the rest of his horde of bright young men.

You already know Alan Righter, who should be getting hie degree next
sumner—— he's been sharp as a tack in more ways than one, but I think would
profit by some postdocotoral experience first. As and if he grows up, to
where hia critical judgment tempers hie imagination, he may be worth watching.

t don't know how to answer your question about our trip—-we've Bguet
gotten back and haven't sorted out our imfressions. Our week in India made
almost too strong an impact, and it will take a while to reoapture the
milder and pleasanter recollections of thres months in Australia, Visit us
sometime and let us expound with help of kodachromes.

Yours cordially, as ever,