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.

* 1942 – Robert Christgau, American journalist and critic

* 1942 – Eugene Robert Glazer, American actor

* 1942 – Robert H. Grubbs, American chemist, Nobel laureate

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 ).

Under Goebbels auspices the participating members ( e. g. Pierre Drieu La Rochelle and Robert Brasillach ) founded the " Europäische Schriftstellervereinigung " ( European Writers ' League ), officially in March 1942.

Clemence Dane's series of radio plays, The Saviours ( 1942 ), used a historical Arthur to embody the spirit of heroic resistance against desperate odds, and Robert Sherriff's play The Long Sunset ( 1955 ) saw Arthur rallying Romano-British resistance against the Germanic invaders.

* 1880 – Robert Musil, Austrian novelist ( d. 1942 )

This idea was anticipated in part, down to the microscale, by science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein in his 1942 story Waldo.

* Robert L. Morris ( 1942 – 2004 ), first holder of the Koestler Chair of Parapsychology at the University of Edinburgh

Extract ; The Forgotten People, Robert Menzies, 22 May 1942 ;

* Robert J. Stevens ( born 1941 or 1942 ), exonerated defendant associated with 2010 U. S. Supreme Court case United States v. Stevens

* 1861 – Robert Bosch, German engineer and businessman, founded Robert Bosch GmbH ( d. 1942 )

* November 6 – Robert Musil, Austrian novelist ( d. 1942 )

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* Robert Smith Walker ( born 1942 ), member of the Congress of the United States from Pennsylvania

The U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff created the South Pacific theater, with Vice Admiral Robert L. Ghormley taking command on June 19, 1942, to direct the offensive in the Solomons.

* Robert Hand ( born 1942 ), astrologer.

* Robert Mason ( born 1942 ), author of Chickenhawk.

* Robert Shapiro ( born 1942 ), childhood home.

Robert Lee " Bullet Bob " Hayes ( December 20, 1942 – September 18, 2002 ) was an Olympic sprinter turned American football wide receiver in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys.

He also starred with Deborah Kerr and Robert Newton in Hatter's Castle ( 1942 ).

Kings Row is a 1942 film starring Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, and Ronald Reagan that tells a story of young people growing up in a small American town at the turn of the twentieth century, beset by social pressure, dark secrets, and the challenges and tragedies one must face as a result of these hard facts.

Paul K. Benedict had joined the Berkeley team in 1938, and in 1942 he published his own classification, where he overtly excluded Vietnamese ( placing it in Mon – Khmer ), Miao – Yao, and Tai – Kadai (' Kadai ', placing it in Austro-Tai ).

* June 22 – Ralph K. Hofer, American fighter pilot ( died 1942 )

However, he ran for the same seat in 1942 and won, handily defeating Republican businessman Howard K. Hazelbaker.

There was no formal award until 1935 when Harold K. Hales ( 1868 – 1942 ), a British politician and owner of Hales Brothers shipping company, donated the trophy.

At the 2009 General Assembly, General Superintendents Jerry D. Porter ( born 1949 ), was re-elected to a fourth term ; Jesse C. Middendorf ( born 1942 ) was re-elected to a third term ; and J. K. Warrick ( born 1945 ) was re-elected to another four-year term.

* Lincoln ( All L, KA, KB, and K ; 1941 — 168 H ; 1942 — 268 H ; All Lincoln Continentals )

He started writing on group extensions in 1942, and began his epochal collaboration with Samuel Eilenberg in 1943, resulting in what are now called Eilenberg – MacLane spaces K ( G, n ), having a single non-trivial homotopy group G in dimension n. This work opened the way to group cohomology in general.

* Chester McCance – player ( K / E ), 1976 ( Winnipeg Blue Bombers 1937 – 41, 1945 ; Winnipeg RCAF Bombers 1942 – 43 ; Montreal Alouettes 1946 – 50 ).

Kay Toinette " K. T ." Oslin ( born May 15, 1942 ) is an American country music singer and songwriter.

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* Robert K. Crane, Class of 1942, American biochemist, discoverer of sodium-glucose cotransport.

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* Paul K. Benedict ( 1942 ).

* 1942 – 1943 Lt Col K Hunt RM

* Rejected ' Quit India ' resolution drafted by Mohandas K. Gandhi 27 April 1942

* Venkataramani, M. S .; Shrivastava, B. K. Quit India: The American Response to the 1942 Struggle ( 1979 )

Thomas Joseph " Tom " Mooney ( December 8, 1882 – March 6, 1942 ) was an American political activist and labor leader, who was convicted with Warren K. Billings of the San Francisco Preparedness Day Bombing of 1916.

In 1942, Paul K. Benedict extended the Austric hypothesis to include the Tai – Kadai languages and the Hmong – Mien ( Miao – Yao ) languages.

* Ernest K. Kai, 1942

* HMS Kingston ( F64 ) was a K class destroyer launched in 1939 and wrecked in an air attack in 1942.

Locomotive production increased again during World War II, and the company was recognized for its service to the country in 1942, but soon after the end of the war, demand for steam locomotives dwindled, and H. K. Porter became primarily a holding company for the many subsidiaries Evans had acquired.

The roots of Seiko Epson Corporation started with a company called Daiwa Kogyo, Ltd. that was founded in 1942 by Hisao Yamazaki, a local clock shop owner and former employee of K. Hattori, in Suwa, Nagano, Japan.

The title song " Knock on Wood " should not be confused with " Everybody Thinks I'm Crazy " from the 1941 cartoon entitled Woody Woodpecker, starring the character of the same name ; or the song " Knock on Wood " from the 1942 film, Casablanca ( with music by M. K.

Peter K. Unger ( born 1942 ) is a contemporary American philosopher and professor at New York University.