The Song Spinners were an American vocal group which enjoyed a burst of popularity during the 1942–44 musicians' strike.
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The 419th Flight Test Squadron, designated the 29th Reconnaissance Squadron (Heavy) from February 1942 to April 1942.
Named by John Fitzgerald Mahon ( - 1942) of Vancouver and London, who subdivided land here in 1913, after his brother-in-laws' courtesy title, Earl of Altamont, the eldest son of the Marquess of Sligo, and brother of his wife, Lady Alice Mahon.
He married fourthly at Lugano-Castagnola, 13 December 1967, Liane Denise Shorto (b. Garça, São Paulo, 23 December 1942), a Brazilian banker's daughter, from whom he was divorced 29 November 1984.
Battle for Henderson Field, a battle that took place October 23 – 26, 1942 during the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific War of World War II.
On 28 March 1942, a USAAF P-40E fighter made an emergency landing at "Wheat Hill" station, after becoming lost in fog during a flight from Canberra.
Chewing gum magnate and Chicago Cubs owner Philip K. Wrigley decided, in 1942, to start a women's professional baseball league, concerned that the 1943 Major League Baseball season might be canceled because of World War II.
In 1930, she made a version of The Spoilers in which she played the role later portrayed by similar-looking Marlene Dietrich in the 1942 remake, while Gary Cooper played the part subsequently acted in the later film by John Wayne, perhaps the only time that Cooper and Wayne played precisely the same role.
The song appears in several Hollywood films, including The Big Broadcast of 1937, Orchestra Wives (1942), Stage Door Canteen (1943), The Benny Goodman Story (1956) and The Aviator (2004).
Ita Buttrose (born 1942), Australian journalist and businesswoman
On Charles Davies Sherborn's own death in 1942, the Manor was inherited by his nephew Ronald Thorne Sherborn, father of the conservationist Derek Sherborn.
They proved popular with audiences and returned in the Gilliat-and-Launder films Night Train to Munich (1940, also starring Margaret Lockwood) and Millions Like Us (1943), and in the BBC radio serials Crook's Tour (1941, made into a film later that year) and Secret Mission 609 (1942).
In 1942, he held secret meetings with Fumimaro Konoe and others in the upper levels of the Japanese government who hoped to bring a quick end to the Second Sino-Japanese War and an armistice with Kuomintang.
Denton Hall has been used as a college for old people, and also was a location for two films: In the 1942 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp by Powell & Pressburger, it is the seat of the Wynne family, whose daughter Barbara marries the eponymous Colonel.
Reagan was fresh off his acclaimed effort in Kings Row (1942), and his professional star was at its brightest.
He participated and led Ankalkhop, Audumber, and Bhilwadi in Tasgaon morcha (March on Tasgaon Tashil) on 3 September 1942 and Islampur morcha on 8 September 1942 in Satyagraha.
During his time as intendant, he led Zagreb's opera company on performances in Venice, Florence and Rome in April 1942 and to Vienne in 1943.
It was sampled in 2002 by Paul Oakenfold in "Starry Eyed Surprise", in 2004 by The Go! Team in "Everyone's a V.I.P. to Someone" and in 2007 by Mika in his Live in Cartoon Motion DVD.
Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, a battle that took place November 12 – 15, 1942 during the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific War of World War II.
After tutoring at Queen's College, Edgbaston, and serving as Acting Warden of the College of the Ascension, Selly Oak, Kilpatrick became rector of Wishaw, Warwickshire, and a lecturer at Lichfield Theological College in 1942.
Released in 1942, with some of the more controversial portions of the novel toned down to satisfy the Hays Code, Kings Row starred Ronald Reagan, Ann Sheridan, and Robert Cummings.
Gustav Hinrichs (1850–1942), German-born American composer and conductor
In 1942, Childbirth without Fear was published; it was a book written by English obstetrician Grantly Dick-Read and French obstetrician Michel Odent, that introduced the idea of using hypnotherapy for childbirth.
He died in Vancouver, British Columbia in early 1942, and his ashes were scattered in the Strait of Georgia.
In August, 1942, the Isuzu was reassigned to the Indian Ocean theatre, patrolling between Singapore, Mergui, Burma, Sabang Harbor, Sumatra and Penang, Malaya; however, on 24 August 1942, Isuzu was reassigned back to Makassar.
In January 1942, she started sailing between the Japanese homeland (Kure and Yokosuka) to the front, including Saipan, Truk, and Davao.
In the evening of 20 June 1942, while patrolling two miles off the coast of British Columbia, I-26 surfaced and shelled the lighthouse and radio-direction-finding (RDF) installation at Estevan Point.
In 1941, Risom teamed with entrepreneur Hans Knoll and in 1942, they launched the Hans Knoll Furniture Company with 15 of the 20 pieces in the inaugural "600" line designed by Risom.
John Weir Troy (1868–1942), American Democratic politician, Governor of Alaska Territory, 1933–1939
Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1869-1942), second president of Watch Tower Society corporation
The expansion of Japanese offensives during the Pacific War in 1942 led to the cessation of sporting competitions in the country and Kim's spell at Pyeongyang FC came to an end.
Kopparapu Sodara Kavulu consists of Kopparapu Venkata Subbaraya Kavi (1885 - 1932) and Kopparapu Venkataramana Kavi (1887 - 1942).
However, while all these were hits, it is Holiday Inn in 1942 starring Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby, with music by Irving Berlin, that is most remembered today, for it introduced the song "White Christmas" performed by the crooner Crosby which remained the biggest selling popular song for fifty-two years.
Between 6 April 1942 and 5 August 1943, No. 35 Squadron, flying Avro Ansons, was based at Maylands to transport supplies and passengers to Allied units throughout Western Australia, as well as supporting the Royal Australian Navy and the Australian Army.
Sir Michael Ogio, GCMG, CBE (born 7 July 1942) is the ninth and current Governor-General of Papua New Guinea.
On 4 June 1942 Pharmacist's Mate Edwin Miller was stationed on Sand Island (part of the Midway Atoll) and was making ready for the expected Japanese attack.
Newton Henry Mason (1918–1942), United States Navy ensign, posthumous recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross
The amalgamated squadron continued operations throughout the month, before No. 8 Squadron handed its remaining Hudsons to No. 1 Squadron in January 1942 and was evacuated to Palembang in Sumatra where it received replacement Hudsons.
Norman ("Norm") W. Tate (born January 2, 1942 in Oswald, West Virginia) is a retired long jumper from the United States, who set the world's best year performance in 1971 by jumping 8.23 metres on 1971-05-22 at a meet in El Paso.
Note: Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base, originally Naval Air Station Clinton, was acquired by the U. S. Navy in 1942.
The species is named after the Irish botanist A.F.G. Kerr (1877–1942), the first botanist to collect plants extensively in Thailand.
The heaviest bombardment of London occurred during the Blitz, 1941-1942, but the Germans targeted London with V1s and V2s as late as March, 1945.
A. J. Cronin's first novel, Hatter's Castle (1931), includes a scene involving the Tay Bridge Disaster, and the 1942 filmed version of the book recreates the bridge's catastrophic collapse.
He was also chairman of John Waddington Ltd, Cope & Timmins, Crosse & Blackwell Ltd (1932–1946), the Waldorf Hotel Company, and the Bank of British West Africa (1942–1948).
David Stancliffe (born 1942), Anglican bishop of Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK
Georg Stumme (29 July 1886 – 24 October 1942), a German General of World War II
The Negro Digest (later renamed Black World) was a popular African-American magazine founded in November 1942 by John H. Johnson.
Owing to misuse of his position, partially due to his theft of German confiscated property, he was ordered back to Berlin in August 1942.
According to a well known rumor, he would have inspired Antoine de Saint-Exupery for the creation of The Little Prince when Saint-Exupery was living in the house of Charles De Koninck in Québec city, in 1942 (see La transcendance de l'homme : études en hommage à Thomas De Koninck, Jean-François Mattéi et Jean-Marc Narbonne (ed.)).
Vicente González Lizondo (1942-1996), Spanish politician and co-founder of the regional party Valencian Union
W.H. Bragg died in 1942 in England and was survived by his daughter Gwendolen (Mrs. Alban Caroe) and his son, Sir William Lawrence Bragg.