In his 1946 biography, Duke Ellington, Barry Ulanov wrote:

The first musical film to have a commercially issued soundtrack album was MGM ’ s 1946 film biography of Show Boat composer Jerome Kern, Till the Clouds Roll By.

Nevertheless, Anouilh refused to comment on his political views, writing in a letter to the Belgian critic Hubert Gignoux in 1946, " I do not have a biography and I am very happy about it.

In Britain, Decca bought out the bankrupt UK branch of Brunswick Records in 1932, which added such stars as Bing Crosby and Al JolsonAl Jolson, who had recorded for the Victor Talking Machine, Columbia Records, and Brunswick Records, made a series of recordings for Decca from 1946 until his death in 1950, following the success of Columbia Pictures Technicolor film biography The Jolson Story ( 1946 ).< sub >< citation needed ></ sub ></ ref >

The Jolson Story is a 1946 musical biography which purports to tell the life story of singer Al Jolson.

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes: Volume 3 – Fighting for Britain 1937 – 1946

According to the 1982 biography of Minkus, draft plans were first drawn up in 1946 and ranged from 9 to 40 stories.

In 1946, Sir James Dunn, the then owner of Algoma Steel, commissioned Sullivan to write Clergue's biography.

There is an obvious gap in the later works published by Mr. Hendrick between 1940 and 1946 which is explained by his work on a biography on Andrew Mellon, which was commissioned by the Mellon family, but never published.

His play Des Teufels General (" The Devil's General "; the main character is based on the biography of Ernst Udet ), which he had written in Vermont, premiered in Zürich on December 14, 1946.

This particular star product is also sometimes called Weyl-Groenewold product, as it was introduced by H. J. Groenewold in 1946, in a trenchant appreciation of Weyl quantization — Moyal actually appears to not know about it in his celebrated paper, and in his legendary correspondence with Dirac, as adduced in his biography.

" Moorehead's 1946 biography of Montgomery also remains well considered-" Moorehead was well able to see-as Wilmot calamitously didn't-that Eisenhower was Montgomery's superior in character and judgment.

Robert Jacob Alexander, Baron Skidelsky, FBA ( born 25 April 1939 in Harbin, China ), is a British economic historian of Russian origin and the author of a major, award-winning, three-volume biography of British economist John Maynard Keynes ( 1883 – 1946 ).

The third volume, Fighting for Britain, 1937 – 1946, won the Duff Cooper Prize in 2000, the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction writing in 2000, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography in 2001, the Arthur Ross Book Award for international relations in 2002, and the Lionel Gelber Prize for International Relations.

* A Life of Wellington: The Duke ( 1946 )

The first American Letter was broadcast on 24 March 1946 ( Cooke said this was at the request of Lindsey Wellington, the BBC's New York Controller ); the series was initially commissioned for only 13 instalments.

In 1946, Fraser moved to the Wellington seat of Brooklyn, which he held until his death.

His writings include A Search for Tradition, a talk given at the first Cambridge Summer School of Music in January 1946 ( Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington 1984 ) and A Search for Language, a University of Otago Open Lecture, March 1969 ( Alexander Turnbull Library, 1985 ).

After the war, Marshall briefly established himself as a barrister, but was soon persuaded to stand as the National Party's candidate for the new Wellington seat of Mt Victoria in the 1946 election.

In 1946 he returned to New Zealand, where he resumed his academic career, and lectured in zoology at Victoria University of Wellington.

Born David Charles Lawrence in Worthing, West Sussex, England, his family migrated to New Zealand in 1946, settling in New Plymouth before moving to Wellington in 1948.

Richard Owen Collinge ( born 2 April 1946 in Wellington ) was a New Zealand cricketer.

He played in New Zealand's first Test against Australia, in Wellington in March 1946, which Australia won by an innings within two days.

* No. 13 Squadron RHAF: Based in Hassani from November 1944 through October 1946, it operated the Baltimore and Wellington on general support and reconnaissance duties.

Tallon made his Test debut in a one-off Test against New Zealand at Wellington in March 1946, although the match was only given Test accreditation two years later.

He played three times for Warwickshire in 1946 before returning to New Zealand to become a coach and making his final appearance for Wellington against Auckland at Eden Park in January 1948 scoring 7 and 41.

Passing through the Suez Canal, they sailed via Fremantle, arriving in Wellington on 23 January 1946, where they were met by the acting Prime Minister, Walter Nash, at Aotea Quay for an official Māori welcome home ceremony.

In 1931 Mrs. F. H. Briggs, agent and chief operator, who was to retire in 1946 with thirty years' service, led agency offices in sales for the year with $2,490.

Among the observers of the 1946 tsunami at Hilo was Francis P. Shepard of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, one of the world's foremost marine geologists.

Since the 1946 disaster there have been 15 tsunami in the Pacific, but only one was of any consequence.

He was in charge of the Hockaday School meals from 1946 to 1950, before he moved to Aj.

Schweitzer's pedal piano was still in use at Lambaréné in 1946.

It was not a Turing complete computer, which distinguishes it from more general machines, like contemporary Konrad Zuse's Z3 ( 1941 ), or later machines like the 1946 ENIAC, 1949 EDVAC, the University of Manchester designs, or Alan Turing's post-War designs at NPL and elsewhere.

In Ireland, Shane Butler said that AA “ looks like it couldn ’ t survive as there ’ s no leadership or top-level telling local cumanns what to do, but it has worked and proved itself extremely robust .” Butler attributed this to " AA ’ s ' inverted pyramid ' style of governance has helped it to avoid many of the pitfalls that political and religious institutions have encountered since it was established here in 1946.

Other highlights of that decade included the 1942 debut of Fearless Fosdick as Abner's " ideel " ( hero ); the 1946 Lena the Hyena Contest, in which a hideous Lower Slobbovian gal was ultimately revealed in the harrowing winning entry ( as judged by Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff and Salvador Dalí ) drawn by noted cartoonist Basil Wolverton ; and an ill-fated Sunday parody of Gone With the Wind that aroused anger and legal threats from author Margaret Mitchell, and led to a printed apology within the strip.

It was repaired in 1946, but it was damaged several times more.

LORAN station Baker was a radio operations base in operation from September 1944 to July 1946.

From 1946 through 1985, the army was divided into four numbered armies: the First Army was centered in Rio de Janeiro, the Second Army in São Paulo, the Third Army in Porto Alegre, and the Fourth Army in Recife.

The award was established in 1940 by the Chicago chapter of the BBWAA, which selected an annual winner from 1940 through 1946.

Hill Top Farm was opened to the public by the National Trust in 1946 ; her artwork was displayed there until 1985 when it was moved to William Heelis ’ s former law offices in Hawkshead, also owned by the National Trust as the Beatrix Potter Gallery.

It was nationalised in 1946.

In 1946, shortly after the end of Norman's tenure, the bank was nationalised by the Labour government.

György Sándor was the soloist in the first performance of the Third Piano Concerto on February 8, 1946.

While two-piece bathing suits had been worn on the beach before, the modern bikini was invented by French engineer Louis Réard in 1946.

According to the current Nobel Committee head Lars Gillensten, his nominee was discussed every year from 1946 to 1950, then again in 1957 ( it was finally awarded in 1958 ).

It was formed in 1946, making it the second oldest formal flying aerobatic team ( flying under the same name ) in the world, after the French Patrouille de France formed in 1931.

The original team was christened the Blue Angels in 1946, when one of the pilots came across the name of New York City's Blue Angel Nightclub in The New Yorker magazine ; the team introduced themselves as the " Blue Angels " to the public for the first time on 21 July 1946, in Omaha, Nebraska.