Television Triumph

Pausing in New York on his way to the Governors' Conference at New Castle, N.H., California's big, ruddy Governor Earl Warren gave the Eastern seaboard a quick look at himself.

He was not out delegate-hunting, he told reporters, but his supporters were sending out circulars in his behalf. He had no second choice for the nomination, and California's 53 delegates had assured him that they had no second choice either.

Then he made a little history. Appearing on a CBS television program, he proved himself the best campaigner yet on the newest communications medium to reach into the U.S. home. His big, squarecut Scandinavian face was etched handsomely on the screen; he was relaxed, direct and confident. He answered ably and fully every question two newsmen could throw at him.

The ECA cut? "A great setback to our bipartisan foreign policy." The reciprocal trade agreements? "I think the reciprocal trade act should be extended [for three years]. The draft? "I should have been much happier [with] universal military training . . . [But] if Congress believes that the time is here to have conscription . . . I'm for it and I'm willing that my boys should take their place."

Accompanied by his wife and pretty 17-year-old daughter Dorothy, the governor moved unostentatiously around the town. Then he took off for the Governors' Conference, where he firmly refused to discuss his chances with reporters. A non-partisan conference, said Candidate Warren, seemed to him scarcely the place to talk partisan politics.

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