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."
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