In 1942 she was named President-elect of The Herdwick Sheepbreeders ’ Association, the first time a woman had ever been elected to that office, but died before taking office.

In 1942 she joined the United States Army Air Forces and worked in the Army Air Forces photointelligence group.

According to her bio in Playbill ( 1942 ), Paxinou was disowned by her family after she decided to seek a permanent stage career.

The S-26 did not sink in a test dive ; she instead sank in a collision with a patrol combatant, PC-460, in January 1942.

In 1942, at the age of twelve, she played a lead in Don't Feed the Animals, a play produced by the East Falls Old Academy Players.

Soon after her arrival in Los Angeles, Gardner met fellow MGM contract player Mickey Rooney ; they married on January 10, 1942, in Ballard, California ; she was 19 years old and he was 21.

Although she moved from Germany to the Netherlands to avoid Nazi persecution, in 1942 she was arrested and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where she died in the gas chamber.

The position of the Roman Catholic Church is that Stein also died because of the Dutch episcopacy's public condemnation of Nazi racism in 1942 ; in other words, that she died to uphold the moral position of the Church, and is thus a true martyr.

The film gave Lombard's career a boost and she followed its success with what proved to be her last film, and one of her most successful, To Be or Not to Be ( 1942 ).

Even though she had already worked in the movies ( she had sung briefly in the 1942 Abbott and Costello film Ride ' Em Cowboy ), she was " delighted " when Norman Granz negotiated the role for her, and, " at the time .... considered her role in the Warner Brothers movie the biggest thing ever to have happened to her.

Following her retirement in 1942, she married Martin Arrougé ( March 23, 1914 – August 8, 1999 ), a former ski instructor twelve years her junior.

In 1942, she began appearing in bit parts and was able to earn enough money to support her mother and two brothers as her father, who was a French patriot, had fled the country in 1940 to join General De Gaulle in England.

Further highlights of this period included Tom, Dick, and Harry, a 1941 comedy in which she dreams of marrying three different men ; I'll Be Seeing You, with Joseph Cotten ; La Cava's 5th Avenue Girl ( 1939 ), where she played an out-of-work girl sucked into the lives of a wealthy family ; and especially the sharp and highly successful comedies: Bachelor Mother ( 1939 ), with David Niven, in which she played Polly Parrish, a shop girl who is falsely thought to have abandoned her baby ; and Billy Wilder's first Hollywood feature film: The Major and the Minor ( 1942 ), in which she played a woman who masquerades as a 12-year-old to get a cheap train ticket and finds herself obliged to continue the ruse for an extended period.

* Rogers was the heroine of a novel, Ginger Rogers and the Riddle of the Scarlet Cloak ( 1942, by Lela E. Rogers ), in which " the heroine has the same name and appearance as the famous actress but has no connection ... it is as though the famous actress has stepped into an alternate reality in which she is an ordinary person.

From 1942 to 1974 she was the museum's president and chairman after which she functioned as honorary chairman until her death in 1986.

The first came in 1942, when she improved the world mark in the 80 m hurdles.

Etty Hillesum was interned in this camp from 30 July 1942 until 7 September 1943, when she and her family were put on a train to Auschwitz.

Instead he wrote radio scripts, including Your Hit Parade, until he was introduced to Austrian composer Frederick Loewe, who needed a partner, in 1942 at the Lamb's Club.

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

In his book Systematics and the Origin of Species ( 1942 ) he wrote that a species is not just a group of morphologically similar individuals, but a group that can breed only among themselves, excluding all others.

In 1942, Raymond Lindeman wrote a landmark paper on the trophic dynamics of ecology, which was published posthumously after initially being rejected for its theoretical emphasis.

As early as September 1942, Dr. Johann Paul Kremer, M. D., an SS physician, witnessed a gassing of prisoners, and in his diary wrote: " They don't call Auschwitz the camp of annihilation Lager der Vernichtung for nothing!

E. Mary Holding, a Methodist missionary in Meru, Kenya, wrote in 1942 that the circumcision ritual was an entirely female affair, organized by women's councils known as kiama gia ntonye (" the council of entering ").

As in 1942, he was more outspoken about what was happening than Himmler would have liked: " Our state ’ s security requires that we take whatever measures seem necessary to protect the German community from Jewish threat ," he wrote in May.

Hugh MacDiarmid, the Scots poet and writer lived in Whalsay from the mid-1930s through 1942, and wrote many poems there, including a number that directly address or reflect the Shetland environment such as " On A Raised Beach ", which was inspired by a visit to West Linga.

Williams wrote his diaries from the age of 14 in 1940 until his death 48 years later, although the earliest to survive to publication was for 1942 when he reached 16.

By 1942 Rockefeller had become increasingly impatient that his purchased property might never be added to the park, and wrote to the Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes that he was considering selling the land to another party.

In 1942 Nolde wrote:

Waller wrote " Squeeze Me " ( 1919 ), " Keepin ' Out of Mischief Now ", " Ain't Misbehavin '" ( 1929 ), " Blue Turning Grey Over You ", " I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling " ( 1929 ), " Honeysuckle Rose " ( 1929 ), and " Jitterbug Waltz " ( 1942 ).

Arthur Edward Waite ( October 2, 1857 – May 19, 1942 ) was a scholarly mystic who wrote extensively on occult and esoteric matters, and was the co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck.

American Trotskyist leader James P. Cannon, in his 1942 book History of American Trotskyism, wrote that " Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and practiced in the Russian revolution and in the early days of the Communist International.

American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote a book-length verse play on the massacre, The Murder of Lidice, which was printed in its entirety in the 19 October 1942, edition of Life magazine and published as a book that same year by Harper.

During World War II, he was involved in the French Resistance, during which time he wrote Liberty ( 1942 ), Les sept poèmes d ' amour en guerre ( 1944 ) and En avril 1944: Paris respirait encore!

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.

* This was the first time Preston Sturges and Eddie Bracken worked together on a feature film, although Bracken had appeared in Safeguarding Military Information, a 1942 propaganda short that Sturges wrote.

He also wrote a number of groundbreaking books on the subject of archaeology and prehistory, most notably Man Makes Himself ( 1936 ) and What Happened in History ( 1942 ).

In 1942 Mauchly wrote a memo proposing the building of a general-purpose electronic computer.

Following her motto, " Not a day without a line ", Françoise d ' Eaubonne wrote more than 50 works, from Colonnes de l ' âme ( poetry, 1942 ) to L ' Évangile de Véronique ( essay, 2003 ).

Mayer wrote the screenplay for A Royal Scandal, and had worked with Lubitsch on To Be or Not to Be ( 1942 ).

Hamilton Basso wrote two novels looking at Long, Cinnamon Seed ( 1934 ) and Sun in Capricorn ( 1942 ).

* Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson ( 1858 – 1942 ), author of Imre: A Memorandum, who wrote under the pseudonym Xavier Mayne.

Captain Patrick R. Reid, who successfully escaped from Colditz in 1942, wrote two detailed books about the living conditions and various escape attempts at Colditz from 1940 to 1945: The Colditz Story and The Latter Days at Colditz.