Shouts & Murmurs

The voters might not be thinking very seriously yet about 1948, but many a politician was.

P:In Massachusetts, Joe Martin climbed into his black Cadillac, began his usual circuit-riding around the 63 communities he represents, listened to ideas, complaints and gossip, made careful notes of it all. Speaker Martin, who might pop up as a compromise candidate in case of a complete deadlock at the Republican presidential convention, also announced that he too, like Tom Dewey and Bob Taft, would take a trip through the West. Who had suggested the tour? Some Congressmen. Any political significance? None, said poker-faced Joe Martin.

|P:In Manhattan, grizzled Bronx Democratic Boss Ed Flynn, who had just made his debut as an author (You're the Boss, TIME, Sept. 8), made a more characteristic sound. He hoped Tom Dewey would win the Republican presidential nomination because, he said: "I'm sure Truman can beat him in New York."

P:"Ike" Eisenhower was acting more & more like a presidential candidate. After two days of fishing in Wisconsin's Brule River, he had his picture taken with the biggest fish he had ever caught--a 5 1/2-lb. trout. At the Minnesota State Fair in St. Paul, he was snapped taking a folksy bite into a prizewinning apple.

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