An assemblage of various and diverse clusters of facts...

January, 1942. . .Robert Ryan debuts on Broadway (Belasko Theater, New York) in Clash By Night with Tallulah Bankhead. He just might have star material. . . Mr. Jays from New York wants hair. 12 inches long, cut from heads only. Will pay two, 10 cent defense stamps for every ounce. . . approximately 100,000,000 records were sold in 1941. . .there are 50,000 people in New York who have FM receivers. The national count estimate is 1,000,000. Chicago comes in at 25,000, Los Angeles 15,000 and Detroit 12,000. . . Glenn Miller's Chattanooga Choo Choo is the number one song across the nation. . . on January 16, Carole Lombard boarded a Transcontinental & Western Airlines flight in Indianapolis. The plane crashed on Table Rock Mountain near Las Vegas on the 17th, killing her, her mother, her press agent, and 19 others. She was born Carol Jane Peters in Ft. Wayne Indiana on October 6, 1908. . . Tin Pan Alley writer Fred Fisher committed suicide on January 14 by hanging himself. His first hit song was If The Man In The Moon Was A Coon in 1902. The song sold 2,500,000 records. Other hits he penned: Peg O' My Heart, I Found A Million Dollar Baby In A Five And Ten Cent Store, and Auf Weidersehn. . .