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In 1946, writer George Orwell wrote an impassioned essay, " Politics and the English Language ", criticising what he saw as the dangers of " ugly and inaccurate " contemporary written English – particularly in politics where pacification can be used to mean "... defenceless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets ...".
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" He went to Sayre Elementary School and Steinmetz High School, then served as a writer for a military newspaper in the U. S. Army from 1944 to 1946.
* 1946 – Peter Rosei, Austrian writer
* 1946 – Robert Fisk, English writer and journalist
* 1946 – Fahmida Riaz, Pakistani writer and activist
Kay Redfield Jamison ( born October 14, 1946 ) is an American clinical psychologist and writer whose work has centered on bipolar disorder which she has suffered from since her early adulthood.
* Steve Martini ( born 1946 ), American legal suspense writer
* 1946 – Alan Dean Foster, American writer
* 1946 – Terence McKenna, American writer and public speaker ( d. 2000 )
* 1946 – Mildred Grieveson ( aka: Anne Mather, Caroline Fleming, Cardine Fleming ), English writer
* 1880 – Damon Runyon, American writer ( d. 1946 )
* 1946 – Philip Pullman, English writer
* 1946 – Walt Simonson, American illustrator and writer
** H. G. Wells, English writer ( d. 1946 )
* February 3 – Gertrude Stein, American writer and patron of the arts ( d. 1946 )
* March 4 – Channing Pollock ( writer ), American playwright and critic ( d. 1946 )
* October 4 – Damon Runyon, American writer ( d. 1946 )
* November 15 – Gerhart Hauptmann, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1946 )
On 12 June 1946, he married Sunita Thakur, an accomplished writer.
Robert Fisk ( born 12 July 1946 ) is an English writer and journalist from Maidstone, Kent.
In 1946, Addams met science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury after having drawn an illustration for Bradbury's short story " Homecoming " in Mademoiselle magazine, the first in a series of tales chronicling a family of Illinois monsters, the Elliotts.
In 1946, Addams met science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury after having drawn an illustration for Mademoiselle magazine's publication of Bradbury's short story " Homecoming ", the first in a series of tales chronicling a family of Illinois vampires named the Elliotts.
Gertrude Stein ( February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946 ) was an American writer, poet, and art collector who spent most of her life in France.
* Jack Ketchum ( born 1946 ), horror writer
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* 1946 – George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, English politician
* 1872 – George E. Stewart, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1946 )
Though the article was signed pseudonymously by " X ," it was well known at the time that the true author was George F. Kennan, the deputy chief of mission of the United States to the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1946, under ambassador W. Averell Harriman.
* To George Weidler ( a saxophonist ), from March 30, 1946 to May 31, 1949.
Herbert George " H. G ." Wells ( 21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946 ) was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre.
‘ Wells, Herbert George ( 1866 – 1946 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ; online edn, Jan 2011 accessed 21 Mar 2012.
He was in 1946 appointed as governor general by George VI, king of Canada, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King, to replace the Earl of Athlone as viceroy, and he occupied the post until succeeded by Vincent Massey in 1952.
Further, as a reward for his leadership in North Africa and Italy, Alexander, along with a number of other prominent British Second World War military leaders, was elevated to the peerage on 1 March 1946 by King George VI ; he was created Viscount Alexander of Tunis and Errigal in the County of Donegal.
Alexander thus chose to retire from the army and take up the new position, and, in anticipation of his viceregal posting, was on 26 January 1946 appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George.
It was then announced from the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada on 21 March 1946 that George VI had, by commission under the royal sign-manual and signet, approved the recommendation of his prime minister, Mackenzie King, to appoint Alexander as his representative.
* 1946 – Popular Canadian-American jockey George Woolf dies in a freak accident during a race ; the annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.
* 1946 – George W. Bush, American politician, 43rd President of the United States
Laura Lane Welch Bush ( born November 4, 1946 ) is the wife of the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush.
The classic exposition of the minimum wage's shortcomings in reducing poverty was provided by George Stigler in 1946:
* 1946 – Dan White, American politician, assassin of George Moscone and Harvey Milk ( d. 1985 )
* 1946 – Clark Clifford and George Elsey, military advisers to U. S. President Harry S. Truman, present him with a top-secret report on the Soviet Union that first recommends the containment policy.
* " Politics and the English Language " ( 1946 ), by George Orwell, criticizing the use of verbose language in contemporary political British writing.
He graduated from George School in 1946.
The convention is named for Sam Stayman, who wrote the first published description in 1945, but its inventors were two other players: the British expert Jack Marx in 1939, who published it only in 1946, and Stayman's regular partner George Rapée in 1945.
The play's respectability was assured in 1946 when a charity performance was attended by King George VI.
Szabo was the second woman to be awarded the George Cross, bestowed posthumously on 17 December 1946.
* August 2 – George E. Stewart, American Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1946 )
* April 10 – George Arliss, English actor ( d. 1946 )
* October 20 – George Gandy, American entrepreneur ( d. 1946 )
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