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Nasser's Champion. An erratic, headstrong conservative, Dorothy nevertheless backed Franklin D. Roosevelt, shifting her column to the Bell Syndicate and the New-Dealing New York Post when Roosevelt's third-term candidacy scandalized the Herald Tribune. She defiantly cast a protest vote for Socialist Norman Thomas in 1948, supported Ike in 1952 and 1956. After a 1950 Mediterranean trip with her third husband, Vienna-born Artist Maxim Kopf, whom she married in 1943, Dorothy was bitten by her last, most persistent bug: the failure of U.S. policy in the Mideast. Convinced that wholehearted support of Israel was folly, she helped found the pro-Arab American Friends of the Middle East. She went on to champion Egypt's Nasser as an impulsive nationalist with no interest in aggression or seizure of oil-company property.
Two months ago Artist Kopf died, and now, says Dorothy, "I must get me to a library." She plans to move to Hanover, N.H., where "I can read and have access to [Dartmouth College's] stacks." Sighs ex-Pundit Thompson, 64: "I have lived in my times as no one else has, and I want very much to record my views and observations of those times."