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 candidate for the Vice-Presidency-perhaps even as a dark-horse Presidential possibility. But Warren, elected with the help of 400,000 Democratic votes, has firmly refused to discuss his political future, and continues to speak of himself as California's non-partisan wartime executive.

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.