A Man Going Places

Even on vacation, California's Governor Earl Warren gained in political stature last week. He displayed himself, with his wife and four of his six children on the beach at Santa Monica, as one of the few top-flight U.S. politicos who is not a hilarious figure in swimming trunks (see cut).

Robust Republican Warren has passed other tests, too, in his eight months as Governor: he has cut taxes, set up a reserve to meet California's postwar problems, made many a progressive change in his State's criminal procedures. Many a GOPolitico was thinking of Governor Warren last week as a likely...

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