A lot of people got down off the political fence last week, and some hurdled it.
Most spectacular hop-over was the leap of voluble, iron-whimmed Dorothy Thompson, who declared for Franklin D. Roosevelt. With womanly consideration she lunched with Mr. Willkie (whom Miss Thompson knows as Wendell) first, made it clear that she was coming out against him. A lengthy talk failed to change her mind. Her reasons for coming out for Roosevelt: his experience, his prestige in the democratic world, her faith in his ability to "be a very great man in an...
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