People, Jul. 20, 1953

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

Back at work in his Kansas City office after his whirl in the East, Harry Truman found that he had failed to turn in his hotel keys, asked his secretary to "mail these back to the Waldorf-Astoria."

Adlal Stevenson found himself looking into the barrel of a Red policeman's Tommy gun after prowling about the ruins of Hitler's chancellery in East Berlin, was told, "You move, I shoot." ("Curiously," Stevenson later remarked, "I didn't move.") Because a member of Stevenson's party took pictures of him...

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