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Paris radio repts Japanese near Mandalay and city being evacuated
U S forces in Australia discussed
Jap movements discussed
Mitchell bill passed by N Y Assembly
1942Heather Robertson, Canadian journalist and author (died 2014)[†]
Heather Margaret Robertson was a Canadian journalist, novelist and non-fiction writer. She published her first book, Reservations are for Indians, in 1970, and her latest book, Walking into Wilderness, in 2010. She was a founding member of the Writers' Union of Canada and the Professional Writers Association of Canada, and launched the Robertson v Thomson Corp class action suit regarding freelancers' retention of electronic rights to their work.
1942Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist, ornithologist, and entomologist (born 1855)[†]
Clinton Hart Merriam was an American zoologist, mammalogist, ornithologist, entomologist, ecologist, ethnographer, geographer, naturalist and physician. He was commonly known as the "father of mammalogy," a branch of zoology referring to the study of mammals.