USA: Nation prepares for war. Rationing begins. FDR enunciates four freedoms: speech worship, want, fear. Mt. Rushmore monument completed. Williams hits .406. DiMaggio hits safely in 56 consecutive games.

SONGS: The White Cliffs of Dover. Blues in the Night. Bewitched. Waltzing Matilda. Now About You? Deep in the Heart of Texas. Tonight We Love. This Love of Mine. I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire. The Hut Sut Song. I Don't Want to Walk Without You. Don't Take Your Love From Me. There I've Said it Again. Flamingo. I'll Remember April.

WORLD: Nazis overrun Yugoslavia. U-Boat attacks punish allied shipping. British sink Battleship Bismarck. Japan cuts China's supply routes at sea land. USSR, Japan sign neutrality pact. Italians surrender Tobruk to British. Afrika Korps joins desert war. Rudolf Hess takes mystery flight to England. Germany invades USSR. Stalin calls for scorched earth. Churchill, FDR meet off Newfoundland. Tito organizes Yugoslav resistance, Smolensk, Kiev fall to Nazi onslaught, Leningrad isolated. Extreme cold, mud bog down German attack on Moscow. Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Germany, Italy declares war on U.S. Japanese land on Wake Island, Philippines.

MOVIES: Citizen Kane. Kings Row. The Maltese Falcon. The Little Foxes. Suspicion. Meet John Doe. Dumbo. Here Comes Mr. Jordan. Major Barbara. The Road to Zanzibar. You'll Never Get Rich. How Green Was My Valley. Sergeant York. The Man Who Came to Dinner.

STAGE: Watch on the Rhine. Arsenic and Old Lace. Blithe Spirit. Angel Street. Lady in the Dark. Let's Face it. Junior Miss. Best Foot Forward.

BOOKS: Berlin Diary. Mildred Pierce. Darkness at Noon. Out of the Night. The Keys of the Kingdom. Reveille in Washington. H. M. Pulham, ESQ. The G-String Murder. The Last Tycoon.

FIRSTS: Liberty Ship. Ouonset Hut. Penicillin Treatment. Commercial TV License. FM Radio Station. Women Test Pilot.