People, Aug. 5, 1957

Names make news. Last week these names made this news:

A man who can be calm when there is anything to be calm about, ex-President Harry Truman brushed aside a $1 bill proffered for his autograph, and declaimed: "I just can't sign them any more. And you know why? That damned Attorney General would just love to put me in jail. You can't deface currency—that's the law." Asked if he was joking about Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Truman snorted: "No, he is no good." In Washington, a Treasury official passed the word: the Treasury...

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