Steiner composed hundreds of film scores, including The Informer ( 1935 ), Now, Voyager ( 1942 ), and Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), which won him Academy Awards.

Max Steiner weaves quotes from " La Marseillaise " throughout his score for the 1942 film Casablanca.

In 1942 Beech won its first Army-Navy ‘ E ’ Award production award and became one of the elite five percent of war contracting firms in the country to win five straight awards for production efficiency, mostly for the production of the Beechcraft 18 which remains in widespread use worldwide.

( 1942 ), The Way Ahead ( 1944 ) and Noël Coward and David Lean's celebrated naval film In Which We Serve in 1942, which won a special Academy Award.

Prelude to War won the 1942 Academy Award for Documentary Feature.

Speer, allied with Fritz Sauckel, the General Plenipotentiary for the Employment of Labour from 1942, generally won these battles.

Nominated for nine Academy Awards in 1942, the film won only for Best Screenplay, for Mankiewicz and Welles.

In February 1942, he won a by-election for Quebec East, Lapointe's old riding.

* Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard ( born 1942 ), German biologist, won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1991 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995

* 1942 – World War II: The Second Battle of El Alamein is won by the British in El Alamein, Egypt.

He won two Academy Awards for his screenplays — one before his imprisonment and blacklisting ( for Woman of the Year in 1942 ), and one after ( for M * A * S * H in 1970 ).

From then on, fame rose quickly for Borge, who won Best New Radio Performer of the Year in 1942.

The Redskins won the 1937 and 1942 Championship games, as well as Super Bowls XVII, XXII, and XXVI.

The third time was during the 1942 NFL Championship Game on December 13, 1942, where the Redskins won their second championship, 14 – 6.

In 1942, the film won an Oscar in the Best Picture category and both Greer Garson and Teresa Wright won an Oscar in the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories respectively.

In 1942, Dewey ran for governor again, and won with a large plurality over Democrat John J. Bennett, Jr. Bennett was not endorsed by the American Labor Party, whose candidate drew almost 10 %.

In 1938 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Our Town, and he won the prize again in 1942 for his play The Skin of Our Teeth.

* The Skin of Our Teeth ( 1942 ) — won the Pulitzer Prize

However, the FCC won on appeal, and on January 8, 1942 NBC decided to separate its Red and Blue networks with the intention of divesting itself of the latter. Swift, Thomas P. " Red and Blue Networks of NBC To Be Split ; WJZ May Be Sold ," The New York Times, Friday, January 9, 1942.

Notable works included Ben-Hur ( 1959 ), The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), and Mrs. Miniver ( 1942 ), all of which won Wyler Academy Awards for Best Director, as well as Best Picture in their respective years.

* 1942 – World War II: second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons.

FBI pressure on Chaplin grew after his 1942 campaign for a second European front in the war and reached a critical level in the late 1940s, when Congressional figures threatened to call him as a witness in hearings.

Chiang Kai-shek ( right ) meets with the Muslim Generals Ma Bufang ( second from left ), and Ma Buqing ( first from left ) in Xining at August 1942.

In 1940 Rogers became professor of clinical psychology at Ohio State University, where he wrote his second book, Counseling and Psychotherapy ( 1942 ).

She retired from acting in 1942, after her second marriage.

He consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1942, in accordance with the second " secret " of Our Lady of Fátima.

Gordon married second husband, writer Garson Kanin, who was 16 years her junior, in 1942.

(; born 18 June 1942 ) is a South African politician who served two terms as the second post-apartheid President of South Africa from 14 June 1999 to 24 September 2008.

Vicente Fox was born in Guanajuato on July 2, 1942, the second of nine children.

Guinness consistently listed " Rock Around the Clock " as having the highest claim of any pop music recording, coming second in sales only to Bing Crosby's 1942 recording of " White Christmas ", which was also listed as having sold 25 million copies with a further estimated 100 million copies sold in other versions.

After arriving in Australia he was posted to Darwin, Northern Territory on 12 August 1942 with No. 77 Squadron RAAF ( Kittyhawks ), during this time he was involved in his second air accident.

* second protocol period from 1 July 1942 to 30 June 1943 ( signed 6 October 1942 )

One week later, after repacking their own chutes, 304 men of the battalion conducted a second combat jump on 15 November 1942 to secure the airfield at Youk-les-Bains near the Tunisian border.

In 1942 the Western Allies agreed to open a second front in Western Europe to take pressure off the beleaguered Red Army in the Soviet Union.

His second film with Hayworth, You Were Never Lovelier ( 1942 ), was equally successful and featured a duet to Kern's " I'm Old Fashioned ," which became the centerpiece of Jerome Robbins's 1983 New York City Ballet tribute to Astaire.

Bachelor Mother was adapted as a radio play on several occasions, including five broadcasts of The Screen Guild Theater: the first starred Laraine Day, Henry Fonda and Charles Coburn ( February 1, 1942 ); the second starred Ann Sothern and Fred MacMurray ( November 23, 1942 ); the third starred Ginger Rogers, Francis X. Bushman and David Niven ( May 6, 1946 ); the fourth starred Lucille Ball, Joseph Cotten and Charles Coburn ( April 28, 1949 ); the fifth starred Ann Sothern and Robert Stack ( April 20, 1952 ).

In July 1942, the Allies ' failure to open up a second front resulted in a wave of guerrilla attacks being carried out by communists, with the intention of maximising the number of Germans deployed in the West in order to relieve the USSR.

They had two children ; the second, a daughter, suffered from spina bifida and died in 1942 aged three, by which time O ' Brian had left the family in their remote country cottage and returned to London, where he worked throughout the war.

The town was incorporated a second time on December 21, 1942.

In 1942, Jemez Springs was the second choice ( after Oak City, Utah ) for the location of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the proposed Manhattan Project research laboratory, but Los Alamos was chosen instead.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

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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.

* Oscar winners: Rebecca ( 1940 ), How Green Was My Valley ( 1941 ), Mrs. Miniver ( 1942 ), Casablanca ( 1943 ), Going My Way ( 1944 ), The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ), The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), Gentleman's Agreement ( 1947 ), Hamlet ( 1948 ), All the King's Men ( 1949 ).

He played sympathetically an impoverished composer-pianist in Tales of Manhattan ( 1942 ) and starred in an updated version of Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost in 1944.

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.

In 1976, the world class boxer Oscar Bonavena ( 1942 – 1976 ), who was a former friend of Conforte's and probably had an affair with his wife Sally, was shot dead at the ranch by Conforte's bodyguard.

On December 27, 1942, Bong claimed his initial aerial victory, shooting down a Mitsubishi A6M " Zero " and an Nakajima Ki-43 " Oscar " over Buna ( during the Battle of Buna-Gona ).

In 1942 his great hit Always in my heart ( Siempre en mi Corazon ) was nominated for an Oscar for Best Song ; it lost out to White Christmas.

Oscar Verner Peterson ( August 27, 1899 – May 13, 1942 ) was a Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy who received the Medal of Honor posthumously in World War II for his actions during the Battle of the Coral Sea.

* Oscar Bonavena ( 1942 – 1976 ), Argentine boxer nicknamed ' Ringo '

Over a seven-year span ( 1936 – 1942 ), he was nominated five times for the " Best Cinematography " Oscar, including a win in 1940 for his work on Wuthering Heights.

He was again nominated for an Oscar in 1942 for Here Comes Mr. Jordan.

* Oscar Bonavena ( 1942 – 1976 ), heavyweight boxer

Oscar Natalio " Ringo " Bonavena ( September 25, 1942 – May 22, 1976 ) was a heavyweight professional boxer with a career record of 58 wins, 9 losses and 1 draw.

He received Oscar nominations for his scripts for Wake Island ( 1942 ) and The Great Escape.

* LUNDE, Gulbrand Oscar Johan ( 1901 – 1942 ) Collaborator.

In the following decade, he appeared in such films as The Buccaneer ( 1938 ), The Great McGinty ( 1940 ), The Corsican Brothers ( 1941 ), Tortilla Flat ( 1942 ), Five Graves to Cairo ( 1943 ), His Butler's Sister ( 1943 ), For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1943 ), for which he received another Oscar nomination, and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek ( 1944 ).

Film production at Cinesound ground to a halt with the advent of World War Two, although Hall kept busy during this period producing and directing newsreels, documentaries and short subjects, including the Oscar-winning Kokoda Front Line ( 1942 )-the first time an Australian film / documentary was awarded an Oscar.

Prelude to War won the Oscar for Best Documentary of 1942.

In 1942, his great hit, Always in my heart ( Siempre en mi Corazon ) was nominated for an Oscar for Best Song ; however, it lost to White Christmas.

He would go on to receive Academy Award nominations for his writing on Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), The Talk of the Town ( 1942 ), and Jolson Sings Again ( 1949 ), winning an Oscar for Here Comes Mr. Jordan ( 1941 ).