Form Sheet

The railbirds were getting a better line on the 1948 presidential contenders. Last week's additions to the form sheet:

Harry Truman, whose Gallup poll rating had dropped from 60% last spring to 54% in July, was up to 55%. His Party was doing even better. If a presidential election were held now, Dr. Gallup's pollsters found, 56% of the voters would pick the Democratic ticket.

Bob Toft & Harold Stassen turned up again on the same platform, this time in Columbus, Ohio. Again they exchanged expressions of esteem. Cracked a newsman: "They're not such strange bedfellows--they both have nightmares about Dewey."

Ike Elsenhower wrapped himself in mystery. At a press conference in New Hampshire he declared: "I don't want anything to do with politics." The same day, in Washington, Major General Floyd L. Parks, the Army's publicity boss, had issued a blast against the Draft-Eisen-hower-for-President League (TIME, Sept. 22). He also dropped a hint that Ike might not be out of uniform until next April, instead of on Jan. 1, as expected. Many a political observer had come to the conclusion that Ike wants nothing to do with the nomination unless it comes as a genuine draft--unsought and unsolicited.

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