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...week's end, heavily guarded, Harry Truman flew west. He landed at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., gave Miss Mary Jane Truman a brotherly peck on the cheek. His Secret Service men flanked him on his 25-mile ride to St. Louis with their hands near their revolvers...
Such tongue-in-cheek stunts have earned Gugel the reputation of being a surrealist (TIME, Nov. 17, 1947). But like Salvador Dali, he now dislikes the tag; it is too tired for publicity purposes. "Surrealism," Gugel says, "started as an art of the subconscious, while I try to be as conscious as possible." Though he dotes on shoes to such an extent that they have become his trademark, Gugel insists that they have no Freudian implications for him. His grandfather, Gugel explains, was in the shoe business: "And I was always fond of grandfather...
Perhaps the most important issue of these is question number five. If a majority of voters cheek "yes," Massachusetts will get a flat statewide rate for its compulsory automobile insurance. At present the state is divided into zones, with the highest rates in heavily populated sections and lower costs in rural districts. Thus, strong Republican districts--Cape Cod, for example-- must defend their low rates at the polls or suffer an increase next year...
...Louis, his jocularity vanished. At California's Fairfield-Suisun Air Force Base he barely nodded to photographers. In Hawaii the next morning, Admiral Arthur W. Radford's pretty wife welcomed him according to island custom; when she put a lei around his neck and kissed his cheek, he reddened, took off the floral offering as if it were poison...
Very soon, perhaps this week, the Court will hand down decisions on "loyalty oath" cases it took under consideration last term. One of these, the Bailey case, involves a woman fired for failing to "pass" her loyalty cheek. Thus, the entire federal loyalty oath program may come up for review, as may the McCarran law and the California state employees' loyalty oath...