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...annual Shrine Convention in Chicago, Shriner Harry Truman, 71, smilingly donned a fez with the jeweled insignia of his home Ararat Temple in Kansas City, Mo., declared himself "fit as a fiddle," rode for a time in the seven-hour-long Shriners' parade, then joined Governor William Stratton in the reviewing stand. Next day he paid a call on Adlai Stevenson, fresh from a hospital bed and a bout with bronchial pneumonia, agreed with him that "the best thing for the country is the Democratic Party...
Traffic safety experts, whose studies show that seat belts in automobiles can reduce deaths and injuries on the highway, won a victory last week in Illinois. Governor William Stratton, who has been strapping himself and Mrs. Stratton into the seat of his Cadillac since last fall, signed the first U.S. law requiring new cars, after next July 1, to be equipped (i.e., with frame holes) so that seat belts can be fastened to the frame. In Detroit, Ford Motor Co. last week followed Chrysler's lead by making seat belts available to dealers as optional equipment for all post...
...world's fanciest yo-yo may give less comfort to his friends than to his country's enemies. Actress June Allyson, who looks so normal it almost seems she was not born but arrived by statistics, has been Jimmy's wife before (in The Stratton Story and The Glenn Miller Story), and by now she can play the part in her sleep. Sometimes, in fact, she seems to do so. Frank Lovejoy, who plays General Curtis E. LeMay. the tough boss of SAC, does an excellent imitation of that famous cigargoyle...
...Republican Governor William G. Stratton released what he said was a tape-recording of a lecture given two years ago by Joseph D. Lohman, a University of Chicago criminologist who is the Democratic candidate for sheriff of Cook County. Lohman was quoted as saying: "I don't know if you realize this or not, but did you ever know that police officers have a disproportionately high number of wives that were formerly prostitutes?" The Chicago policemen's wives association, a militant group, threatened legal action and wired Lohman: "The honor of all policemen's wives has been...
After frantic effort, G.O.P. headquarters reached Stratton, then called Detroit and-finally-arranged a settlement. Before leaving Detroit for the flight to Chicago. Charlie Wilson knew what he would have to do. Wryly he told reporters: "The rumor around Washington is that I have foot-in-mouth disease...