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Main floor and basement departments were busy in stores in the three major test markets of New York. Chicago and Los Angeles, according to the survey prepared especially for THE NEW YORK TIMES by Meyer Both Reports. College shops were active, with a good call noted for dresses, coats, suits and furs.
Amid the turbulence of quarrels between Manager Mel Ott and Dixie Walker, a near fist fight between Muscles Medwick and Bill Werber, a drizzling rain and finally a downpour, the Dodgers yesterday walloped the Giants, 10 -- 5, to win in the eighth inning at Ebbets Field.
THIS has been a busy fortnight in the London theatre, with six new productions. Although there was only one new play that was a good one.
1942Nancy Richey, American tennis player[†]
Nancy Richey is an American former tennis player. Richey won two major singles titles and four major women's doubles titles. She was ranked world No. 2 in singles at year-end in 1969. Richey won 73 singles titles during her career and helped the US win the Federation Cup in 1969. She won the singles title at the U.S. Women's Clay Court Championships a record six consecutive years, from 1963 through 1968.
1942World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.[†]
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, beginning when Nazi Germany and its Axis allies attacked and became locked in a protracted struggle with the Soviet Union for control over the Soviet city of Stalingrad in southern Russia. The battle was characterized by fierce close-quarters combat and direct assaults on civilians in aerial raids; the battle epitomized urban warfare, and it was the single largest and costliest urban battle in military history. It was the bloodiest and fiercest battle of the entirety of World War II—and arguably in all of human history—as both sides suffered tremendous casualties amidst ferocious fighting in and around the city. The battle is commonly regarded as the turning point in the European theatre of World War II, as Germany's Oberkommando der Wehrmacht was forced to withdraw a considerable amount of military forces from other regions to replace losses on the Eastern Front. By the time the hostilities ended, the German 6th Army and 4th Panzer Army had been destroyed and Army Group B was routed. The Soviets' victory at Stalingrad shifted the Eastern Front's balance of power in their favour, while also boosting the morale of the Red Army.