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Another alleged nation declared war on the U.S. and Britain last week: Japan's puppet government of the Philippines, headed by "President" José Laurel, one-time Supreme Court justice. He had cause to fear that his term might be growing shorter...
Monty got new honors the same day: the rank of Field Marshal, conferred by King George VI. The award set up a new cacophony of confusion: did Monty's crown and laurel wreath outrank...
...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...
...profile photographs, well known in America: he is of medium (5 ft. 8 in.) but athletic build, with a lifted head, rather blond, grey eyes and bushy eyebrows and the finely chiseled face of an American Indian. He wore boots and a simple grey-green uniform. Only the golden laurel leaves at his lapels and cuffs indicated the Supreme Commander of the National Liberation Army of Yugoslavia. At his feet lay Tiger, a German police dog the size of a calf...