Word: gooch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MARGARET RADCLIFFE GOOCH Washington
...MEMOIRS OF CATHERINE THE GREAT (400 pp.)-Edited by Dominique Moroger, with an introduction by Dr. G. P. Gooch-Macmillan...
...Korea John Cassity, an Army officer from Grantsville, Utah, once ran across "a real stupid-looking fellow"-a Korean civilian whom the Americans called Mortimer Gooch. Gooch "cleaned up around a tent in headquarters and seemed so dull that it was difficult even to give him orders. When he was finally fired, he pretended to be so stupid that he didn't know he was fired, and kept coming back." Later, Cassity came to believe that the dull Korean was really a Communist spy in disguise. Eventually, Cassity went back to civilian life and became chief security officer...
...TIME, Jan. 3). Ladejinsky, who fled Russia after the Bolshevik revolution (leaving three sisters there), vigorously opposed the Reds. His anti-Communist record, including articles in such magazines as the Saturday Evening Post, stretches back over 20 years. It turned out that Cassity suspected Ladejinsky of being another Mortimer Gooch. "You can't tell anything about a security problem by appearances," he said...
...Ladejinsky case." Refugee Vitt said that some of his best friends were Jews, and that the DOA had violated its promise by publishing the letter Vitt meant to be used "circumspectly." It looked as if some people in Agriculture would be well cast in the role of Mortimer Gooch, the man who was so dumb it must have been premeditated...