A decade and a half later, the Polish anthropology student, Bronisław Malinowski ( 1884 – 1942 ), was beginning what he expected to be a brief period of fieldwork in the old model, collecting lists of cultural items, when the outbreak of the First World War stranded him in New Guinea.

He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.

* 1942 – Barry Levinson, American producer and director

* 1942 – Carlos Reutemann, Argentine race car driver and politician

* 1942 – Jacob Zuma, African politician, President of South Africa

* 1942 – Daryl Dragon, American keyboardist ( Captain & Tennille )

* 1942 – Brian Peckford, Canadian politician, 3rd Premier of Newfoundland

* 1942 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.

* 1942 – George Jung, American convicted drug smuggler

* 1942 – Byard Lancaster, American saxophonist ( d. 2012 )

* 1942 – Indian leader Mohanda Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.

* 1942 – World War II: Battle of Savo Island – Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.

* 1942 – Tommie Agee, American baseball player ( d. 2001 )

* 1942 – Jack DeJohnette, American drummer, pianist, and composer ( Gateway and Trio Beyond )

* 1942 – David Steinberg, Canadian comedian, actor, director, and author

* 1942 – Major General Eugene Reybold of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the " Development of Substitute Materials " project, better known as the Manhattan Project.

* 1872 – Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate ( d. 1942 )

* 1942 – Isabel Allende, Chilean author

* 2012 – Jamaa Fanaka, American director, producer, and screenwriter ( b. 1942 )

* 1942 – André Gagnon, Canadian pianist and composer

* 1942 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Reconstruction, Old and in the Way, and New Riders of the Purple Sage ) ( d. 1995 )

* 1942 – Giancarlo Giannini, Italian actor

* 1942 – Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1872 )

Floyd Douglas Little ( born July 4, 1942 ) is a Pro Football Hall of Fame running back, and was a three-time American football All-American running back at Syracuse University.

The first wings were privately and hastily designed and paid for out of the pockets of Floyd Odlum and his wife, Jacqueline Cochran, who in 1942 became the head of WASP.

* Raymond Floyd ( born 1942 ), American golfer

Raymond Loran " Ray " Floyd ( born September 4, 1942 ) is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments on both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour.

Floyd I. Clarke ( born January 7, 1942 ) is a former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) in the United States.

Expansions in 1925 by School District Architect Floyd Naramore saw the site expanded to 10. 6 acres, in 1942 to 12. 7 acres, and in 1958 with a major addition by architect John W. Maloney that obscured the front facade of the building.

The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.

* The Big Street ( 1942 ) — Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball ( adapted from Runyon's story " Little Pinks ")

BB's The Little Grey Men ( 1942 ) is a story of the last gnomes in England, little wild men who live by hunting and fishing.

Besides his Oscar-winning scores, some of Steiner's popular works include King Kong ( 1933 ), Little Women ( 1933 ), Jezebel ( 1938 ), Casablanca ( 1942 ), and the film score for which he is possibly best known, Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ).

Little Brown & Co, 1942.

* Sport: Little Wars, Time Magazine, December 14, 1942.

* Antoine de Saint-Exupéry-author of The Little Prince, written at Delamater-Bevin Mansion in Asharoken in 1942

In 1942, Simon & Schuster began publishing the Little Golden Books, a series of inexpensive, well illustrated, high quality children's books.

One of the first generation of blues artists to take up the electric guitar, in 1942, she combined her Louisiana-country roots with Memphis blues to produce her own unique country-blues sound ; along with Big Bill Broonzy and Tampa Red, she took country blues into electric urban blues, paving the way for Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Little Walter, and Jimmy Rogers to travel from the small towns of the south to the big cities of the north.

In 1942, Hellman received an Academy Award nomination for her screenplay for the film version of The Little Foxes.

This was before Christie ’ s American publishers appropriated the title for Five Little Pigs in 1942 ( a year ahead of the release of the UK edition that retained the nursery-rhyme title ).

The weapons envisaged in 1942 were the two gun-type weapons, Little Boy ( uranium ) and Thin Man ( plutonium ), and the Fat Man plutonium implosion bomb.

Numerous actors played Little Beaver: One of the most notable was Robert Blake ( on credits as Bobby Blake ), Tommy Cook ( 1942 on ), Frank Bresee ( 1942-46, alternating with Cook ), Henry Blair ( 1944-47 ), Johnny McGovern ( 1947-50 ) and Sammy Ogg ( 1950-51 ).

Other wartime films with an AVG angle included The Sky's the Limit ( 1942, starring Fred Astaire ); God is My Co-pilot, ( 1943, with Dennis Morgan as Robert Lee Scott, Raymond Massey as Chennault, and John Ridgely as Tex Hill ); Hers to Hold ( 1943, with Joseph Cotten ); and China's Little Devils ( 1945 ).

A good example is her 1942 recording of the song " Get On Board, Little Chillun ", which, with strong gospel, blues, boogie, and jive sounds as a genuine precursor to the later rockabilly / rock ' n roll songs.

Not until September 23, 1942, during the Second World War, did Alfredo Perino, along with guides Louis Carrel ( nicknamed " The Little Carrel ") and Giacomo Chiara, climb the complete ridge and the overhangs directly.

Jones's last case was in 1942 when he teamed up with Thurgood Marshall to sue the Little Rock School District to obtain equal pay for a black school teacher.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942.

This was reportedly changed to Mäuschen ( Little Mouse ) in December 1942 and finally to Maus ( Mouse ) in February 1943, which became the most common name for this tank.

* On Your Lovely Little Shoulder Dear ( На чудное плечико милой ; An Liebchens schneeweisse Schulter ) for voice and piano ( 1887 ); words by Heinrich Heine in translation by Vasily Pavlovich Fyodorov ( 1883 – 1942 )

She also played the same dignified, poised dowager in other movies, with W. C. Fields ( Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, 1941 ) and ( Tales of Manhattan, 1942 ), Abbott and Costello ( Little Giant, 1946 ), Laurel and Hardy ( The Dancing Masters, 1943 ), Red Skelton ( Bathing Beauty, 1944 ), Jack Benny ( The Horn Blows at Midnight, 1945 ), Wheeler and Woolsey and George " Spanky " McFarland ( Kentucky Kernels, 1934 ) and ( High Flyers, 1937, with Lupe Vélez thrown in for good measure ), radio comedian Joe Penner ( The Life of the Party, 1937 ), George " Gabby " Hayes ( Sunset in El Dorado ), and Danny Kaye ( Up In Arms, 1944 ), and on television with Martin and Lewis ( The Colgate Comedy Hour, December 1951 ).

Hathcock was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on May 20, 1942.

* Ill Fares the Land: Migrants and Migratory Labor in the United States ( Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942 ).