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Chaplain Laurel Garnett Gatlin was back on active service in the U.S. Navy last week. Said the 45-year-old Southern Baptist: "The Lord has overruled the injustices meted out to me in my removal from active duty by recalling me to do the thing I felt I had a right...
Hell-Fire. The overzealous chaplain was Kentucky-born Laurel Garnett Gatlin, 44. In the four Southern pastorates he has held, Preacher Gatlin has pounded out straight hellfire & damnation. After each service he would make a last-minute appeal to any sinner not to leave church without embracing the Lord Jesus and being saved. To Preacher Gatlin the Navy seemed like a field ripe unto the harvest. So he became a Navy chaplain, served nearly eight tumultuous months. By the end of that time, the Navy asked Chaplain Gatlin to resign. He refused, was thereupon relieved from active duty because...
...Virgil Garnett Gaines Thomson, 44, is a chub-cheeked, baldish, chirrupy, witty, exquisitely cultivated native of Kansas City. A piano-prodigious only son, he went to the same high school as Playwight-Critic Richard Lockridge, Contralto Gladys Swarthout, Actor William Powell. Virgil Thomson went to Harvard, where he wore kid gloves to scull on the River Charles, and played the organ in Boston's King's Chapel. He spent a year after graduation on a grant from the Juilliard Foundation, then went to Paris, to go hungry. "I hope," he declared, "I shall never again have to earn...
Married. Helen Huntington Astor, 46, former wife of Vincent Astor; and Lytle Hull, 54, Palm Beach real-estate broker and longtime friend of the Astors, who were divorced on Sept. 4, 1940, after 26 years' married life; at Garnett...
...between, Director Garnett fashioned the second episode in Universal's resuscitation of drowsy Marlene Dietrich. Traipsing through the islands of the East Indies with a trollop's parasol and two larcenous bodyguards (Broderick Crawford and Mischa Auer), she encounters a well-groomed wing of the U. S. Navy, casts languorous glances at a promising lieutenant, sings a dolorous chant beginning: "See those shoulders broad and glorious? See that smile? That smile's notorious. You can bet your life the man's in the Navy,"* at a cafe conducted by wheezing Billy Gilbert...