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Died. General Sir George Watkin Eben James Erskine, 66, armor-plated British tankman who won the D.S.O. after Nazi General Erwin Rommel's smashing defeat at El Alamein, later led the famed "Desert Rats" (7th Armored Division) in North Africa, Sicily and Normandy, in postwar years fought his last campaign (1953-55) against Kenya's Mau Mau; of heart disease; in South Cheriton, England...
Erika Spivakovsky will study 16th century Spanish history; Virginia C. Watkin, a lawyer, will analyze the systems of taxation currently in use in various Latin American countries; Jean Huleatt Wheeler will specialize in political science, and charity Willard will study medieval European literature...
Frederick M. Watkin, professor of political Science at Yale University, arrived yesterday as the first member of a faculty exchange between Berkeley College and Dunster House. Watkin is spending two days visiting informally with the House residents...
...idea for such an interchange originated on a similar visit made at Berkeley by Carl J. Friedrich, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, and an associate of Dunster. A grant from the Ford Foundation has been appropriated by the House to cover the expenses of Watkin's stay...
Paul Osborn's adaptation of Lawrence Watkin's novel appeared on Broadway a number of years back. It is an amiable bit of nonsense with nothing much to say and very little purpose other than to amuse audiences. At this it succeeds. I should say it succeeds mainly because it brings Moore back to the theatre...