USA: FDR orders U.S. to share nuclear know-how with Britain. Government siezes mines closed by strikers. Jefferson Memorial dedicated. 34 die in Detroit race riots.

WORLD: Guadalcanal falls to U.S. Forces. Allies attack Jap held Burma, pound New Britain, New Guinea, Timor. Burma falls. Chinese stem Japanese offensive. Tarawa taken after the most costly U.S. operation. German's take Kharkov. Soviets triumph at Kursk in war's largest tank battle. Von Paulus surrenders at Stalingrad. Soviets retake Smolensk Kiev. Aleutian Islands beck in U. S. hands. Africa korps surrenders. Allies bomb Ruhr cities. Allie forces invade Sicily. Mussolini resigns placed under house arrest. U.S. British troops invade Italy. U.S. Marines land on Bougainville. New Italian government declares war on Germany. Mussolini rescued by Nazis. FDR, Churchill meet in Casablanca with Chiang in Cairo and Stalin in Tehran.

SONGS: Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer. Pistol Packing Mama. Dirty Gertie from Bizerte. Oklahoma. Oh What a Beautiful Morning. Everything's Up to Date in Kansas City. People Will Say We're in Love. Besame Musho. Do Nothing Until You Hear From Me. I Couldn't Sleep A Wink Last Night. You'll Never Know. Holiday For Strings. I'll Be Seeing You. Sunday, Monda and Always. A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening. Tico, Tico. Speak Low. They're Either too Young or too Old.

MOVIES: So Proudly We Hail. This is the Army. Watch on the Rhine. Stage Door Canteen.For Whom the Sells Toll. The Human Comedy. The Song of Bernadette. The Outlaw. My Friend Flicka. Dubarry was a Lady.

STAGE: Tomorrow the World. Othello. Kiss and Tell. The Voice of the Turtle. One Touch of Venus. Something for the Boys. Winged Victory. Oklahoma! The Two Mrs. Carrolls. Carmen Jones.

BOOKS: One World. The Apostle. Journey in the Dark. Guadalcanal Diary. The Fountainhead. Being and Nothingness. The Human Comedy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

FIRSTS: Five Star Generals. Postal zone numbering. Streptomycin. AquaLung. Air to surface guided missile. Income tax withholding.