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- As a brigadier general, Walter Bedell Smith was chief of staff in Europe to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of Allied forces in Europe during World War II, and he was the man who negotiated first the surrender of Italy and then of Germany. He was U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1949 and Director of Central Intelligence from 1951 to 1953. He retired from the army in 1953, and was appointed Undersecretary of State.
- Jack Bachom 1918 Cleveland, Ohio Died August 9, 1961
An American film editor, producer and director. Was a sound editor at Walt Disney Studios on all the classics of the 1930s in the Golden Age Of Animation, on Pinocchio in 1938 when he was 19 years old, his wife Dorothy Higgins was an airbrush artist, both worked on Pinocchio, Bambi and Fantasia.
After WWII he was hired back at Walt Disney Studios where he was film editor on Fun and Fancy Free.
He became a contract editor at RKO in the early days of television and edited Micky Rooney's Hey Mulligan He directed Stan Freberg's first commercials for Butternut Coffee and Chung King Chow Mein He was producer and film editor on Bob Hope USO Christmas Shows until 1960 - Lawrence Abrott was born on 22 July 1888 in Sunol, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Night That Sophie Graduated (1915), Alkali Ike and the Hypnotist (1913) and When Snakeville Struck Oil (1915). He died on 9 August 1961 in Oakland, California, USA.