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1941Wolfgang Petersen, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2022)[†]
Wolfgang Petersen was a German film and television director, screenwriter and producer. His international breakthrough was the 1981 war film Das Boot, which earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. He subsequently directed the blockbuster fantasy film The NeverEnding Story (1984), based on the 1979 novel of the same name.
1941C. R. M. F. Cruttwell, English historian (born 1887)[†]
Charles Robert Mowbray Fraser Cruttwell was a British historian and academic who served as dean and later principal of Hertford College, Oxford. His field of expertise was modern European history, his most notable work being A History of the Great War, 1914–18. He is mainly remembered, however, for the vendetta pursued against him by the novelist Evelyn Waugh, in which Waugh showed his distaste for his former tutor by repeatedly using the name "Cruttwell" in his early novels and stories to depict a sequence of unsavoury or ridiculous characters. The prolonged minor humiliation thus inflicted may have contributed to Cruttwell's eventual mental breakdown.
The combined efforts of Mayor La Guardia and Arthur S. Meyer, chairman of the State Board of Mediation, failed last night to settle the strike of the 3,500 employes of the Fifth Avenue Coach Company and the New York City Omnibus Corporation.
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, March 13 -- In the face of conflicting rumors obscuring the real intentions of the Yugoslav Government, reliable sources close to the Foreign Office assured this correspondent tonight that the pact to be signed by Yugoslavia in Germany within the next few days would be strictly bilateral and wholly free of military clauses.
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Greek destroyer Psara sinks Ital submarine as latter attacks convoy, Aegean Sea; Itals fail to gain ground in heavy offensive, Albanian front; suffer heavy losses; Rome repts use of fresh troops; claims Greek assaults, Viosa River sector, were repulsed
House subcom hearing; Knox, Stimson, Hull, Marshall, Rear Adm Ingersoll and H D Smith testify; Woodrum comments; House action set; Sens Nye and Byrd question fund size
new Brit defenses get increased toll of German planes
RAF carries out heaviest raids of war on Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen
WASHINGTON, March 13 -- A recommendation for $3,446,585,144 for the Navy's needs in the 1942 fiscal year, nearly half of which was for continuance of the construction of the two-ocean fleet, was presented to the House today by the Appropriations Committee.
State Employment Services to register all with usuable skills; Hillman comments
operators reject demands; C O'Neill and Lewis debate; both sides name coms for further discussions