USA: FDR calls for strong defense. Economy picks up as arms sales soar. Einstein secretly advises FDR A-bomb can be built. Supreme court rules sit-down strikes illegal. Sinatra joins Harry James Band. Sub Squalus sinks. New York, San Francisco World's Fair openings. Lou Gehrig benches himself after 2,130 games.

SONGS: God Bless America. All the Things You Are. I Didn't Know What Time It Was. Our Love. Three Little Fishies. Frenesi. Over the Rainbow. Beer Barrel Polka. I'll Never Smile Again.

MOVIES: Gone With the Wind. Good Bye Mr. Chips. The Wizard of Oz. Dark Victory. The Women. Intermezzo. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Wuthering Heights.

WORLD: Spanish Loyalists Capitulate to Dictator Franco. German storm troops take over Czechoslovakia. USSR invades Finland. Britain and France guarantee Poland's independence. Albania overrun by Italy. Japan sweeps deeper into China. Germany and USSR sign non-aggression pact. Poland succumbs to Blitzkrieg. Britain, France declares war on Germany. U.S. asserts neutrality. Gandhi endures "fast unto death."

STAGE: Life With Father. The Man Who Came to Dinner. The Philadelphia Story. The Time of Your Life. Dubarry Was a Lady. Too Many Girls. The Little Foxes.

BOOKS: The Grapes of Wrath. The Yearling. Abraham Lincoln. Kitty Foyle. Wind, Sand and Stars. The War Years. Pale Horse, Pale Rider. Finnegan's Wake. Adventures of a Young Man. Wickford Point. The Web and the Rock. Mein Kampf. Tropic of Capricorn. The Day of the Locust.

FIRSTS: Helicopter. Jet Plane. Transatlantic Airmail. DDT Commercial U.S. Europe Clipper Flights.

FADs: Swallowing Goldfish. Sleigh Bells on Socks.