{"value"=>"<p>The name and subjects files reflect the gathering of information for Kahn's books and wide-ranging articles for <em>The New Yorker</em> and other periodicals. They include correspondence (of particular interest are Kahn's letters written to his family from South Africa) and research material consisting of articles, books, clippings, leaflets, pamphlets, periodicals, trade and specialized newspapers, reports, and typed interviews. There are also innumerable typed and handwritten notes (incisive, and often sardonic in tone), and typescripts and galley proofs of his articles and books.</p> <p>Among the subjects of the articles and books covered in this series are the landmark harassment suit filed by the Socialist Workers Party against the U. S. Attorney General; the fate of the State Department's China Service officers, who were blamed by conservative critics for the \"loss\" of mainland China to communism; the development of the Coca-Cola Company and the evolution of the brand name \"Coca Cola\" as a world-wide symbol of American economic colonialism; the careers of the actors Edward Harrigan and Tony Hart; the repatriation of Japanese soldiers discovered several years after the end of World War II living in the jungles of Guam and the Philippines; an emotional reunion of the survivors of a hand-to-hand struggle in the North Atlantic between an American Destroyer-Escort and a German U-boat; the efforts of the Negro Ensemble Company to survive; Dwayne Andreas, the wealthy businessman and one of the signers of the historic trade agreement between the American Trade Consortium and the Soviet Foreign Economic Consortium; the field work of the ethnobotanist Richard E. Schultes, who spent many years studying and testing hallucinogenic drugs in the rainforests of Amazonia; and the files relating to several writing assignments in South Africa. The name and subjects files are arranged and boxed alphabetically, and indexed and cross-referenced to other files or series. Italics in the index indicate titles of Kahn's articles, columns, or books.</p>"}