Jan 24th, 2008 · Rooster Andrews, a legendary figure of the University of Texas football team, died this week at the age of 84. He was a water boy for the 1943 team when the coach put him in the game to kick an extra point.
Jun 17th, 2007 · In September 1943, as the tide of the war was turning against the Nazis, Adolf Hitler hatched a secret plan to kidnap -- and possibly kill -- Pope Pius XII. Author Dan Kurzman relates the foiled plot in A Special Mission: Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius the XII.
Oct 2nd, 2006 · If You Got to Ask, You Ain't Got It is Sony Legacy's new 3-CD set of jazz-great Fats Waller's best music. Historians and music critics say no one has ever quite been able to fill Waller's shoes since his death in 1943.
Apr 7th, 2006 · As a boy growing up in the Bronx, Anthony D'Andrea spent a lot of time lingering in the shadows of Yankee Stadium. In 1943, when the Yankees were on their quest for a World Series title, D'Andrea went on a quest of his own: Getting the entire team to sign his baseball.
Feb 5th, 2006 · Novelist Kevin Baker has just published the third volume of his City on Fire trilogy. Strivers Row is set in Harlem in 1943. The story focuses on a fictional character -- Jonah Dove -- and the very real Malcolm Little, later to become Malcolm X.
Oct 29th, 2005 · Two decades after the death of writer Truman Capote, a new manuscript has come to light. Capote wrote the novella Summer Crossing in 1943. Capote's literary executor, Alan Schwartz, tells Debbie Elliott how the work was uncovered.
Jan 14th, 2005 · In 1943, theologian Reinhold Niebuhr wrote the Serenity Prayer, an appeal for grace, courage and wisdom that's become a mantra of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and appealed to people around the world. We speak to Niebuhr's daughter, Elisabeth Sifton, whose book explores the circumstances that led her father to write the prayer.
Aug 24th, 2004 · A new film tells the story of German gentiles who protested the arrests of Jews in 1943, winning their release. Director Margarethe Von Trotta calls her film an indictment against Germans who failed to condemn Nazi atrocities.