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Bowled Over. Chaplain Talbott, who never even dreamed that such things would be a part of a chaplain's work, was bowled over. He said that he could not conscientiously carry out such orders. The survey board suggested he return to parish work. Talbott agreed...
...Beacon's story came from the ex-chaplain himself: Dr. Norbett G. Talbott, pastor of the Methodist Church at Huntingburg, Ind. Last spring, Pastor Talbott entered the Naval Training School for Chaplains at Williamsburg, Va. He got along fine until course's end, when he was interviewed by three fellow chaplains of a survey board...
...board asked Chaplain Talbott how he would react to several situations commonly encountered by service padres. Examples: 1) On a ship returning to port after several months at sea, the captain hands the chaplain $500, tells him when they land to hire a place for a dance, get an orchestra, plenty of beer, see that the sailors have a good time. 2) On a ship returning to port after a long stretch of duty, the commanding officer tells the chaplain that when the men land some will want to see women; he orders the chaplain to give...
...Talbott is a gruff, rough political boss who has ruled the Fourth as his father-in-law (and now his enemy) Ben Johnson, 85, did before him. He stage-managed the rise of Senator Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler. Arbitrary with his patronage, he antagonized many a ward heeler, earned the nickname of "The Old Bear." No one knew why he decided to run for Congress just when the Democratic ship was rocking in Kentucky. But retiring Governor Keen Johnson (no kin to Patriarch Ben) obligingly arranged for Talbott to be nominated. At the polls Talbott was exposed to "bullet votes...
...Republican victor was Chester O. Carrier, 47, longtime Grayson County attorney. Quiet, slow-spoken and slightly rotund, Carrier had punched cattle in Wyoming, railroaded in Pennsylvania, sold Bibles in the Appalachians. Outside Grayson County, no one knew much about him. But they did know Dan Talbott...