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Jap invasion fleet reptd off South Burma
Brazilian SS Olinda sunk by midget U-boat off U S Atlantic coast; crew safe, Norfolk; officers who were taken aboard U-boat int; Brazilian reaction; Buenos Aires source says other ships reliably reptd sunk
Japanese drop inferior incendiary bombs on US-Filipino installations
S T Early announces Roosevelt request that listeners have maps
1942Tony Martin, Trinidadian-American historian and academic (died 2013)[â ]
Tony Martin was a Trinidad and Tobago-born scholar of Africana Studies. From 1973 to 2007 he worked at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and over the course of his career published more than ten books and a range of scholarly articles.
1942Margarethe von Trotta, German actress, director, and screenwriter[â ]
Margarethe von Trotta is a German film director, screenwriter, and actress. She has been referred to as a "leading force" of the New German Cinema movement. Von Trotta's extensive body of work has won awards internationally. She was married to and collaborated with director Volker Schlöndorff. Although they made a successful team, von Trotta felt she was seen as secondary to Schlöndorff. Subsequently, she established a solo career for herself and became "Germany's foremost female film director, who has offered the most sustained and successful female variant of Autorenkino in postwar German film history". Certain aspects of von Trotta's work have been compared to Ingmar Bergman's features from the 1960s and 1970s.