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.

Iqaluit was founded in 1942 as an American airbase, geographically located to provide a stop-over and refueling site for short range fighter aircraft being ferried across the Atlantic to support the war effort in Europe.

During World War II, the city was renamed from Batavia to " Jakarta " ( short form of Jayakarta ) by the Indonesian nationalists after conquering the city from the Dutch in 1942 with the help of the Japanese forces.

In the final Wimsey story, the 1942 short story " Talboys ", Peter and Harriet are enjoying rural domestic bliss with their three sons when Bredon, their first-born, is accused of the theft of prize peaches from the neighbour's tree.

The only occasion when Sayers returned to Wimsey was the 1942 short story " Talboys ".

* 1942 – William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published.

* In Hal Clement's short story Proof ( 1942 ), neutronium is the only form of solid matter known to Solarians, the inhabitants of the Sun's interior.

From 1942 until 1969, Looney Tunes was the most popular short cartoon series in theaters, exceeding Disney and other popular competitors.

Bugs Bunny made a cameo appearance in 1942 in the Avery / Clampett cartoon Crazy Cruise and also at the end of the Frank Tashlin 1943 cartoon Porky Pig's Feat which marked Bugs ' only appearance in a black-and-white Looney Tunes short.

Foundation was originally a series of eight short stories published in Astounding Magazine between May 1942 and January 1950.

The rules were introduced in his 1942 short story " Runaround ", although they had been foreshadowed in a few earlier stories.

* " Proof ", a 1942 hard SF short story by Hal Clement

O ' Brien went on to do some special effects work, re-using one of the mattes from Son of Kong, on Orson Welles ' American classic Citizen Kane ( 1941 ) and George Pal's Oscar-nominated animated short Tulips Shall Grow ( 1942 ), as well as developing his own project, Gwangi, about cowboys who encounter a prehistoric animal in a " lost " valley, which he failed to sell to the studio.

Rear Window is a 1954 American suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by John Michael Hayes and based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story " It Had to Be Murder ".

Jam Session is a 1942 short film, directed by Josef Berne, which shows Duke Ellington and his orchestra performing C Jam Blues.

* 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.

Tulips Shall Grow is a 1942 American animated short film directed by George Pal, about a Dutch boy and girl whose idyllic existence is destroyed when they are overrun by a group of mechanical men called " The Screwballs ", who lay waste to everything they touch ; it is generally recognized as a not-so-subtle allegory about the conquest of Holland by the Nazis.

The 1942 Merrie Melodies short " The Dover Boys " was a particular early prototype of the use of limited animation, though pressure from Warner Bros. curtailed much further use of the technique.

Bob Clampett created the character that would become Tweety in the 1942 short A Tale of Two Kitties, pitting him against two hungry cats named Babbit and Catstello ( based on the famous comedians Abbott and Costello ).

After some success with short films, he graduated to features in 1942, turning out two crisp B mysteries, Eyes in the Night and Kid Glove Killer before getting his big break with The Seventh Cross ( 1944 ), starring Spencer Tracy, which was his first hit.

Created as a parody of Superman, he first appeared in 1942 in a theatrical animated short titled The Mouse of Tomorrow.

In 1942, while teaching high school, three of Mitchell's short stories were published.

His first published book was a volume of short stories, The Last Inspection ( 1942 ).

( Siegel and Shuster had earlier poked fun at Capp in a Superman story in Action Comics # 55, December 1942, in which a cartoonist named " Al Hatt " invents a comic strip featuring the hillbilly " Tiny Rufe.

It may be an echo of a statement in a 1942 story by Leigh Brackett: " Witchcraft to the ignorant, ....

This 64-page story was adapted by Donald Duck comic strip writer Bob Karp from an unproduced feature, and published in October 1942 in Four Color Comics # 9.

* The Big Street ( 1942 ) — Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball ( adapted from Runyon's story " Little Pinks ")

Nevertheless, in 1942, Alessandro Blasetti produced his Quattro passi fra le nuvole ( Four Steps in the Clouds ), the story of a humble employee, considered by many others as the first neorealist work.

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 ).

BB's The Little Grey Men ( 1942 ) is a story of the last gnomes in England, little wild men who live by hunting and fishing.

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

The term was coined by Jack Williamson in a science-fiction story (" Collision Orbit ") published during 1942 in Astounding Science Fiction, but the concept may pre-date this work.

The Shadow magazine story " The Vampire Murders " published in 1942 features " Varney Haldrew " who lives in Haldrew Hall.

This story was the basis for the 1942 romantic movie, " My Gal Sal ".

In 1941, Wyler directed one of the key films that galvanized support for Britain and against the Nazis in an America slow to awaken to the threat in Europe, it was Mrs. Miniver ( 1942 ), a story of a middle class English family adjusting to the war in Europe.

Between 1942 and 1945, Wyler, who became a United States citizen in 1928, served as a major in the United States Army Air Forces and directed two documentaries: The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress ( 1944 ), the story of a Boeing B-17 and its U. S. Army Air Force crew, and Thunderbolt!

His mother is known only as Maw Pete and was mentioned in the story " Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold " by Carl Barks and Jack Hannah ( first published October, 1942 ) as a resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

In October 1942, after a story conference, the office sent Paramount a seven-page letter outlining their concerns, including remarks made by the character Emmy, who is 14 years old ; the potential of the film's portraying Trudy as being drunk ; and reducing anything to do with Trudy's pregnancy.

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.

The novel Le Silence de la Mer was written in 1942 by Jean Bruller, and quickly became a symbol of mental resistance through its story of how an old man and his niece do not speak to the German officer occupying their house.

He was the head of 20th Century Fox ’ s bureau of literary development ( story department ) from 1934 to 1942.