Christopher Golden's 2000 novel Spike and Dru: Pretty Maids All in a Row depicts Spike killing a Slayer named Sophie in the 1940s, contradicting the two Slayers whom Spike is later established to have killed ; the second Slayer Spike killed was established as New Yorker Nikki Wood.

Scott Tipton's 2006 comic Spike: Old Wounds is detective fiction set during Season Five, and also features allusions to Spike's activities in the late 1940s.

Musical comedian and parodist Spike Jones recorded a three minute spoof of radio soap operas entitled None but the Lonely Heart ( A Soaperetta ) in the 1940s.

Through the 1940s and early 1950s, the band recorded under the title Spike Jones and his City Slickers and toured the United States and Canada under the title The Musical Depreciation Revue.

The addition of Spike's son Tyke in the late 1940s led to both a slight softening of Spike's character and a short-lived spin-off theatrical series ( Spike and Tyke ).

The comedy musician Spike Jones who became popular in the 1940s performed a jaunty cover of the " Black Bottom.

She worked for several years in the late 1940s on Spike Jones ' show and starred in a short-lived DuMont variety show Star Time ( 1950 ).

Kaye established herself as a musical comedienne in the 1940s, joining the Spike Jones touring revue of entertainers.

Many of Jones ' cartoons of the 1930s and early 1940s were lavishly animated, but audiences and fellow Schlesinger staff members found them lacking in genuine humor.

Jones hit his stride in the late 1940s, and continued to make his best-regarded works through the 1950s.

In 2009, Jones released a collection of classics and standards from the 1940s through the 1970s entitled She.

" Film critic David Richard Jones adds that Kazan, during the 1940s and 1950s, was one of America's foremost Stanislavskians, and " influenced thousands of contemporaries " in the theatre, film, and the Actors Studio that he helped found.

Jones also paired Porky with Sylvester in a series of cartoons in the late 1940s and early 1950s, in which Porky plays the curmudgeonly owner of the cat and remains clueless that Sylvester is constantly saving him from homicidal mice, space aliens, and other threats.

The widowed Eurasian doctor Han Suyin ( Jones ) falls in love with the married-but-separated American correspondent Mark Elliott ( Holden ) in Hong Kong, during the period of China's Civil War in the late 1940s.

By this time Warners ' cartoons directors of the 1940s were Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones and Bob Clampett.

In the country music field, singer-songwriters like Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, George Jones, Merle Haggard, Roger Miller, Billy Edd Wheeler, and others emerged from the 1940s through the 1960s, often writing compelling songs about love relationships and other subjects.

" However, a viewing of the early Bugs cartoons of the late 1930s and early 1940s clearly demonstrates that the character was not " created " as a whole at one time, but rather evolved in terms of personality, voice, and design over several years through the efforts of Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Cal Dalton and Ben " Bugs " Hardaway, Robert McKimson, Sr., and Mel Blanc, in addition to Clampett's contributions.

* Charlie Dog, Chuck Jones ' late 1940s cartoon character

Jones ' beloved Engine No. 638 was sold to the Mexican government in 1921 and still ran there in the 1940s.

In the 1940s, Jones resided on his poultry farm in Colorado, which he occasionally left for short tours with pickup bands.

* Tommy Jones ( footballer born 1930 ) ( often referred to as TE Jones, 1930 – 2010 ), football centre half who played for Everton in the 1940s and 1950s

Despite their short run of films, Hubie and Bertie are significant in that they symbolize Chuck Jones as he had reinvented himself in the late 1940s.

* The ' Jarge Balsh ' books, written by W M Jones ( William Marchant Jones-1884-1967 ) between 1926 and the 1940s and now out of print, make very extensive use of Somerset dialect as spoken in Jones ' home village of Coleford.

In the 1940s, he had several small roles in American films, including John Huston's We Were Strangers ( 1949 ) starring Jennifer Jones and John Garfield.

In the 1940s Jones and Graham seemed to have developed something of a father-son relationship.

Born Ruth Shirley Wohl in Brooklyn, New York, Wallis began her career singing jazz and cabaret standards-with such bands as Isham Jones and Benny Goodman on road tours for a couple of months ; but gained fame in the 1940s and 1950s for her risqué, satirical songs, rife with double entendre that she wrote herself.

He began his time in Hollywood during the 1940s doing print work for film ads, until he collaborated with filmmaker Otto Preminger to design the film poster for his 1954 film Carmen Jones.

* Béla Bartók lived in 350 Bowery at the corner of Great Jones Street during the 1940s.

Jones claimed that Kupcinet was told of the assassination by her father ( who was allegedly told by Jack Ruby, whom he met in Chicago in the 1940s ).

Major films of this type during the 1940s included Bicycle Thieves, Rome, Open City, and La Terra Trema.

City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s ; New York: Harper & Row, 1986 ; ISBN 0-06-015626-0 ( See e. g. pp. 45 – 46 for anecdotes revealing Lang's arrogance.

As the music has developed and spread around the world it has drawn on many different national, regional and local musical cultures giving rise, since its early 20th century American beginnings, to many distinctive styles: New Orleans jazz dating from the early 1910s, big band swing, Kansas City jazz and Gypsy jazz from the 1930s and 1940s, bebop from the mid-1940s and on down through West Coast jazz, cool jazz, avant-garde jazz, Afro-Cuban jazz, modal jazz, free jazz, Latin jazz in various forms, soul jazz, jazz fusion and jazz rock, smooth jazz, jazz-funk, punk jazz, acid jazz, ethno jazz, jazz rap, cyber jazz, Indo jazz, M-Base, nu jazz, urban jazz and other ways of playing the music.

In the 1940s Lawrence was given his first major solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and became the most celebrated African American painter in the country.

Many also went north of the Missouri River, where Kansas City had incorporated areas between the 1940s to 1970s.

Kansas City jazz in the 1930s marked the transition from big bands to the bebop influence of the 1940s.

The 1940s in New York City heralded the triumph of American abstract expressionism, a modernist movement that combined lessons learned from Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, surrealism, Joan Miró, cubism, Fauvism, and early modernism via great teachers in America like Hans Hofmann and John D. Graham.

Its goal was to document the histories of black working-and middle-class residents of the South Bronx neighborhood of Morrisania in New York City since the 1940s.

This system was first used in Kansas City and Vancouver in the late 1940s.

The American folk music revival in New York City in the 1950s was rooted in the resurgent interest in square dancing and folk dancing there in the 1940s, which gave musicians such as Pete Seeger popular exposure.

The 1930s and 1940s brought much change to the Island City.

According to one source the Oak of Reformation was cut down by Norwich City Council in the 1960s to make way for a car park, although Reg Groves wrote in the 1940s that had already been destroyed.

His orchestra also performed frequently at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City during the late 1940s.

" The Method " was first popularized by the Group Theatre in New York City in the 1930s and subsequently advanced by Lee Strasberg and others at The Actors Studio in the 1940s and 1950s.

Hopper was very productive through the 1930s and early 1940s, producing among many important works New York Movie ( 1939 ), Girlie Show ( 1941 ), Nighthawks ( 1942 ), Hotel Lobby ( 1943 ), and Morning in a City ( 1944 ).

He described his work there in the late 1940s in terms that could have been used by almost any other City Press reporter of any era:

During the 1930s and 1940s, the leading orchestras were heard often through big band remotes, and NBC's Monitor continued such remotes well into the 1950s by broadcasting live music from New York City jazz clubs to rural America.

The concept of clave as a form of music theory with its accompanying terminology, was fully developed during the big band era of the 1940s, when dance bands in Havana and New York City were enlarged.

According to Bobby Sanabria, the 3-2, 2-3 concept and terminology was developed in New York City during the 1940s by Cuban-born Mario Bauzá, when he was music director of Machito's Afro-Cubans.

Phenix City was notorious during the 1940s and 1950s as being a haven for organized crime, prostitution, and gambling.

In the late 1940s he worked at Jimmy Ryan's in New York City.

Also view the ruins of the 1906 Decatur Waterworks, used by the City of Decatur as a drinking water source until the 1940s.

The Moline Association of Commerce marketed the Quad-Cities under the motto of " Joined together, as the boroughs of New York City " throughout the 1940s and 1950s, with Moline as the " nucleus ," but few corporations bought into the analogy.

The City of Port Allen Railroad Depot is a museum depicting the life of railroad workers in the 1940s.

The first trailer park, Trailer City, opened on the land in the 1940s ; another park, Sunnyside, soon opened next door.