Word: kaghan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...THEODORE KAGHAN Nyack...
Their trip was an outrageously brash performance, but it got results of a sort. In Frankfurt, Cohn charged that Theodore Kaghan, in the U.S. High Commissioner's Public Affairs Division, had "once signed a Communist Party petition." Kaghan jeered at Cohn & Schine as "junketeering gumshoes." Two weeks later, Kaghan was called home by the State Department and fired...
...illegitimate son, Colby Simpkins-a young man who yearns to be an organist. If Sir Claude's wife, Lady Elizabeth, should take a liking to Colby, Sir Claude means to adopt him. Already part of the household are Lucasta Angel, his illegitimate daughter, and B. (for Barnabas) Kaghan, a foundling whom Lucasta plans to marry. Lady Elizabeth too, in her youth, had an illegitimate son whom she lost all trace of; and being a woman with a flutter-brained, highhanded contempt for facts, she decides that Colby is her son, not Sir Claude...
Eventually, with the help of Colby's aunt, Mrs. Guzzard, things are cleared up. Sir Claude, it turns out, is not Colby's father, while Mrs. Guzzard is his mother instead of his aunt. And though Colby is not Lady Elizabeth's son, B. Kaghan...
...Confidential Clerk Eliot again presents what looks like a group of very worldly people. In the first act he encourages us to assimilate them to familiar theatrical types. Lucasta Angel is a rather spoiled and forward young woman. B. Kaghan is a flashy sort of practical joker who is amusingly disrespectful concerning Lady Elizabeth, the absent-minded dowager who dabbles in spiritualism. After the first act there was much disappointed all in the lobby about the predictable lines, tired characterizations, and old fashioned exposition. In the second act our conceptions of these characters are wrenched out of shape. In response...