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Songwriter ("Let There Be Peace on Earth [Let it Begin With Me]"), composer, actress, writer, author and publisher, educated in junior college. She began her career as a radio actress, and in 1934 entered films. With her husband Sy Miller, she co-owned a music publishing company. Joining ASCAP in 1955, her chief musical collaborator was her husband, and her other popular-song compositions include "My Very Good Friend the Sandman", "I Like to Ride on My Bike", "Traffic Light Song", "Listen to the Wind", "Talk It Over With Your Heart", "Once Upon a Summertime", "High Upon a Mountain", "Still Small Voice", "Ask Your Heart to Show the Way", "Keep in Touch With Your Heavenly Father", and "Lord Loves a Laughin' Man". (Her well-known "Let There Be Peace on Earth" was used in the Crusade For Peace Program and also in a USIA film for Japan, and was awarded a George Washington Honor Medal from the Freedoms Foundation.)- Actor
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Gordon Hoban was born on 4 August 1941 in Faribault, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Paper Chase (1978), The Born Losers (1967) and Mannix (1967). He died on 10 April 1993 in Honoka'a, Hawaii, USA.- Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema is the son of Siebren Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema and Cornelia Vreede. Born in Java while it was still a Dutch colony. During the 1930s he hitch-hiked across the United States and wrote his first book "Rendezvous in San Francisco" which became a non-fiction best-seller in the Netherlands. A student of law at Leiden University, when WW11 broke out he escaped from Holland and participated in secret landings along the Dutch coast. This later became the basis for his autobiographical book 'Soldaat van Oranje' which was published in Holland in 1970 by the Forum Boekerij. He later joined the RAF as a Pathfinder Mosquito pilot, and ended the war by returning to the Netherlands as an aide to the then-reigning Queen, Wilhelmina. He emigrated to the United States and in 1951 started working for NBC Television on the 'Today Show', later on 'Tonight' and 'Home'. He became Director of Radio Free Europe in Munich. In 1960 he started Intertel, multi-national television company with mobile units, in Spain, Germany and the UK. Since 1968 he has devoted his time to writing books. The first version of 'Soldaat van Oranje was titled 'De Hol van de Ratelslang'. He wrote a column 'De Verre Tambour' for De Telegraaf, Hollands' largest newspaper. He now lives in Hawaii.