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...Britain's Cardinal Griffin forbade priests to speak. This year he also banned the participation of Catholic layman Edward I. Watkin. Highlight of the occasion was a message from Watkin...
...shortest and best of the essays is by Roman Catholic Author Edward Ingram Watkin. The traditional Catholic criteria for determining when and whether a war is "just," says he, are meaningless under modern conditions. Only a nation's top leaders could possibly know enough of the facts to decide. But "the justice of the cause is not the sole criterion of justifiable war .'.. There is another test whose application is henceforth simple and plain: even a just war must not be waged by immoral means. Under modern conditions, however, war can be waged only by such aerial...
...GEORGE WATKIN EVANS Seattle, Wash...
...Penguin I, it bumbled through the streets on a test run, got stuck under a viaduct. Extricated, it waddled off two days later for Boston at a speed of 10 m.p.h., sometimes less, paused to nose a truck in Columbia City, Ind., slithered off the highway into Mrs. Cleo Watkin's cow pasture near Gomer, Ohio, and came to rest with its nose in a drainage ditch (TIME...
...Borrowed Time (adapted by Paul Osborn from the novel by Lawrence Edward Watkin; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman). First-nighters at On Borrowed Time ached from applauding. Critics went back to their offices and wrote starry-eyed reviews. Speculators promptly invested in an eight-week buy. But here & there a cold fish issued coldly from the playhouse, willing to admit that it had been a pleasant enough evening, but nothing more. In any case, it had been all about a lovable old codger (Dudley Digges) who saved his little orphaned grandson from the clutches of a prim, pious, perfectly terrible...