* C. S. Lewis used the epistolary form for The Screwtape Letters ( 1942 ), and considered writing a companion novel from an angel's point of view — though he never did so.

Chess historian Edward Winter has questioned this, stating that the earliest known sources that support this story are an article by Robert Lewis Taylor in the June 15, 1940, issue of The New Yorker and Marshall's autobiography My 50 Years of Chess ( 1942 ).

Mere Christianity is a theological book by C. S. Lewis, adapted from a series of BBC radio talks made between 1942 and 1944, while Lewis was at Oxford during World War II.

In his film score for " Of Mice and Men " ( 1939 ) and consequently in his collection " Music for the Movies " ( 1942 ), American composer Aaron Copland titled a section of the score " Threshing Machines ," to suit a scene in the Lewis Milestone film where Curley is threatening Slim over giving May a puppy, when many of the itinerant worker men are standing around or working on threshers.

In 1942, William Lewis Moody, Jr., along with his wife Libbie Shearn Rice Moody, established the Moody Foundation, with the purpose of " benefiting present and future generations of Texans.

Lewis Allan " Lou " Reed ( born March 2, 1942 ) is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer.

* Antigone ( Paris: Didier, 1942 ); translated by Lewis Galantière as Antigone ( New York: Random House, 1946 ).

In the foreword to I saw it Happen, a 1942 collection of eye-witness accounts of the war, Lewis Gannet wrote: "(...) We shall be hearing and reading of this war for decades to come.

* The Bugle Sounds ( 1942 ) with Marjorie Main, Lewis Stone, and George Bancroft

Kitty Kallen sang with the Jimmy Dorsey orchestra following Helen O ' Connell's departure in 1942. Jerry Lewis ' first wife Patti Palmer ( birth name Esther Calonico ) was a singer with his orchestra for less than a year, starting about 1944.

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard ( born October 20, 1942 in Magdeburg ) is a German biologist who won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1991 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995, together with Eric Wieschaus and Edward B. Lewis, for their research on the genetic control of embryonic development.

Originally chartered as the Albany Collegiate Institute in 1867 in the town of Albany, the school moved to the Portland campus in 1938 and in 1942 adopted the name Lewis & Clark College after the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

In 1942 the college trustees acquired the Lloyd Frank ( of the historic Portland department store Meier & Frank ) “ Fir Acres ” estate in southwest Portland, and the school name was changed to Lewis & Clark College.

* John Lewis ( headmaster ) ( born 1942 ), former headmaster of Eton College

The Mine Workers led by Lewis, with a strong pro-Soviet presence, opposed Roosevelt ’ s reelection in 1940 and left the CIO in 1942.

Lewis also gives the year 1942 as the year that both The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and The Silver Chair take place.

Tenth Air Force was constituted on 4 February 1942 and activated on 12 February, built up around a nucleus of air force personnel newly arrived from Java and the Philippines, under the command of Maj. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton.

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 ).

* 1942, Lewis White Beck, " Nicolai Hartmann's Criticism of Kant's Theory of Knowledge ," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol.

#### Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler ( 1869 – 1942 ), New York Congressman

Her husband, Elbert Lewis, died in a March 1942 Japanese attack on the Socony oil refinery at Penang, Straits Settlements ( now Malaysia ) during World War II.

He won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1960 and the Newbery Medal in 1942, for The Matchlock Gun, and the National Book Award for Children's Literature in 1976, for Bert Breen's Barn.

* 1942 – Malta received the George Cross for its gallantry.

In late 1942 after several band members had left the group, and as World War II raged, Wills joined the Army, but received a medical discharge in 1943.

He held 42 patents and received numerous awards, including the first Institute of Radio Engineers now IEEE Medal of Honor, the French Legion of Honor, the 1941 Franklin Medal and the 1942 Edison Medal.

He received in 1942 the AIEEs Edison Medal " for distinguished contributions to the art of electric communication, notably the regenerative circuit, the superheterodyne, and frequency modulation ".

He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Director in 1942 for Sergeant York, but he received his only Oscar in 1975 as an Honorary Award from the Academy.

In 1942, the team of scientists Leonid Shvarts, Moisei Komissarchik and engineer Yakov Shor received the Stalin prize for the development of the BM-8-48.

He graduated with a BA in 1939, and received a Bachelor of Sacred Theology in 1942.

Much earlier, in 1942, he had received the first honorary degree of Doctor of Laws of Melbourne University.

The most celebrated invention of frequency hopping was that of actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil, who in 1942 received for their " Secret Communications System ".

On August 1, 1942, Lieutenants Nemesio Aguirre, Fernández Bakaicoa and Juanna received a Basque-coded message from San Diego for Admiral Chester Nimitz warning him of the upcoming Operation Apple to remove the Japanese from the Solomon Islands.

During his time in Gannan, from 1940 he implemented a " public information desk " where ordinary people could visit him if they had problems, and according to records, Chiang Ching-kuo received a total of 1, 023 people during such sessions in 1942.

As one of MGM's major stars of the 1940s, Garson received seven Academy Award nominations, winning the Best Actress award for Mrs. Miniver ( 1942 ).

Even though she had not made a picture in five years, Arthur accepted the part at the request of George Stevens with whom she had worked in two earlier films, The Talk of the Town ( 1942 ) and The More the Merrier ( 1943 ) for which she received her only Oscar nomination.

* United States Coast Guard Douglas Albert Munro ( October 11, 1919 – September 27, 1942 ) is the only member of the United States Coast Guard to have received the Medal of Honor, the U. S. military's highest decoration.

In 1942 one resistance leader claimed that the movement received support from four groups: The " lower middle " and " middle middle " classes, university professors and students, all of the working class, and a large majority of the peasants.

Sydnor pointed out that Hitler had received an SS report in November 1942 which contained a mention of 363, 211 Russian Jews executed by the Einsatzgruppen between August – November 1942.

* John J. McKeithen, governor of Louisiana ( 1964 – 1972 ); Louisiana Public Service Commissioner ( 1955 – 1964 ); state representative ( 1948 – 1952 ); U. S. Army combat officer ( 1942 – 1945 ) having received two Bronze Stars in the battles of Okinawa and Iwo Jima

In recognition of its production record, the arsenal received the Army-Navy ‘ E ’ Award four times, the first on October 31, 1942.

He received his first star in December 1942, and became chief of staff of the Twelfth Air Force in North Africa under General James H. Doolittle.

The first inmate was received on April 27, 1942, and the last inmate departed on September 4, 1942.

* John J. McKeithen, governor of Louisiana ( 1964 – 1972 ); Louisiana Public Service Commissioner ( 1955 – 1964 ); state representative ( 1948 – 1952 ); U. S. Army combat officer ( 1942 – 1945 ) having received two Bronze Stars in the battles of Okinawa and Iwo Jima

The Columbus flying school received its first aircraft, nine Beech AT-10s and twenty-one AT-8s in early 1942.

In 1942, it became the St Anne's Society, and received a university charter to be founded as a women-only college in 1952.