* Bright, Charles D., The Jet Makers: The Aerospace Industry From 1945 to 1972, Lawrence, Kansas: The Regents Press of Kansas, 1978.

Harold Taylor, President of Sarah Lawrence College from 1945 to 1959, greatly influenced the college.

# Lawrence Joseph Shehan ( 1945 – 1953 ) appointed Bishop of Bridgeport ( later named coadjutor archbishop ; see # 12 below )

There were earlier precedents, but Lawrence Treat's 1945 novel V as in Victim is often cited as perhaps the first true police procedural.

Edgar Snow wrote of Alley's work in CIC: " Where Lawrence brought to the Arabs the distinctive technique of guerilla war, Alley was to bring China the constructive technique of guerilla industry ...." In 1945, he became headmaster of the Shandan Bailie School following the death of George Hogg.

In 1945, pianist-composer-arranger and MIT graduate Lawrence Berk founded Schillinger House, the precursor to the Berklee School of Music.

The Petrified Forest was performed on CBS's Lux Radio Theater in 1937, with Herbert Marshall, Margaret Sullavan, and Donald Meek in the principal roles ; and again on the same program in 1945, with Ronald Coleman, Susan Hayward, and Lawrence Tierney .< ref >

In 1945, Lawrence starred as Eliza Doolittle opposite Raymond Massey as Henry Higgins in a revival of Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, who initially resisted the idea of Lawrence playing the role.

In 1945, Lawrence published the autobiography A Star Danced.

Lawrence Robert Bowa ( born December 6, 1945 in Sacramento, California ) is a former middle infielder, playing mainly as a shortstop, and manager in Major League Baseball.

Wald produced and wrote many films between the 1930s and 1960s including Stars Over Broadway ( 1935 ), The Roaring Twenties ( 1939 ), On Your Toes ( 1939, in collaboration with playwright Lawrence Riley ), They Drive by Night ( 1940 ), Navy Blues ( 1941 ), Across the Pacific ( 1942 ), The Man Who Came to Dinner ( 1942 ), Destination Tokyo ( 1943 ), Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), Johnny Belinda ( 1948 ), Key Largo ( 1948 ), Always Leave Them Laughing ( 1949 ), The Glass Menagerie ( 1950 ), Perfect Strangers ( 1950 ), Two Tickets to Broadway ( 1951 ), The Blue Veil ( 1951 ), Peyton Place ( 1957 ), An Affair to Remember ( 1957 ), In Love and War ( 1958 ), The Sound and the Fury ( 1959 ), Sons and Lovers ( 1960 ), Return to Peyton Place ( 1961 ) and Wild in the Country ( 1961 ).

Larry ( formally Lawrence Gordon ) Tesler ( born April 24, 1945 ) is a computer scientist working in the field of human-computer interaction.

The organization was founded in 1945 by Clayton Rawson, Anthony Boucher, Lawrence Treat, and Brett Halliday.

Gen. Charles W. Lawrence, briefly commanded the division before it was disbanded on November 15, 1945.

* The fourth USS Lawrence ( DD-250 ) was a Clemson-class destroyer, serving from 1921 to 1945

Harvey came to Lawrence, Kansas in 1945 to study at the University of Kansas, where he majored in theater, directing and acting in stage productions, such as Harvey, Beggar on Horseback, and Hamlet.

Lawrence " Larry " Lucchino, ( born September 6, 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ) is the current President and CEO of the Boston Red Sox, and a member of John W. Henry's ownership group.

In 1945, together with Lawrence E. Glendenin and Charles D. Coryell, he isolated the previously undocumented rare earth element 61.

* Geller House, Lawrence, Long Island, New York, 1945

Their only son, Lawrence, was killed in action on Bougainville in 1945.

Guy Lawrence Charteris and Frances Lucy Tennant, and grand-daughter of Hugo Richard Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss, on 28 June 1945 ( divorced 1952 ).

* Mary Lawrence ( 1868 – 1945 )-American sculptor and creative developer of " Snedens Landing Artists ' Colony ".

Roger Lawrence Kerr, CNZM ( 17 January 1945 – 28 October 2011 ), a public policy and business leader, was the executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, a free-market think-tank based in Wellington, New Zealand.

Laura was adapted as a radio play for two episodes of Lux Radio Theater, the first starring Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney and Vincent Price ( February 5, 1945 ), the second starring Gene Tierney and Victor Mature ( February 1, 1954 ).

In addition, " Laura " was presented twice on The Screen Guild Theater ( August 20, 1945 and February 23, 1950 ), both episodes starring Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney and Clifton Webb.

Fox also specialized in adaptations of best-selling books such as Ben Ames Williams ' Leave Her to Heaven ( 1945 ), starring Gene Tierney, which was the highest-grossing Fox film of the 1940s.

Leave Her to Heaven is a 1945 American 20th Century Fox Technicolor film noir motion picture starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, with Vincent Price, Darryl Hickman, and Chill Wills.

Also in 1945, Crain starred in Leave Her to Heaven with Gene Tierney.

Hersey's first novel A Bell for Adano, which won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1945, was adapted into the 1945 film A Bell for Adano directed by Henry King starring John Hodiak and Gene Tierney.

Examples include Brigid O ' Shaughnessy, portrayed by Mary Astor, who murders Sam Spade's partner in The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ); Gene Tierney as Ellen Brent Harland in Leave Her to Heaven ( 1945 ), and the cabaret singer portrayed by Rita Hayworth in Gilda ( 1946 ), narcissistic wives who manipulate their husbands ; Phyllis Dietrichson ( Barbara Stanwyck ) in Double Indemnity ( 1944 ), Ava Gardner in The Killers and Cora ( Lana Turner ) in The Postman Always Rings Twice, both based on novels by James M. Cain, manipulate men into killing their husbands.

This role led to several film appearances during the 1940s in such films as Lady Scarface ( 1941 ), Kings Row ( 1942 ), All Through the Night ( 1942 ), Otto Preminger's Laura ( 1944 ) with Gene Tierney, Ben Hecht's Specter of the Rose ( 1946 ), Jean Renoir's The Diary of a Chambermaid ( 1946 ), and a particularly memorable turn as Emily Brent in René Clair's And Then There Were None ( 1945 ).

More big roles followed, notably that of Maj. Joppolo in A Bell For Adano ( 1945 ) opposite Gene Tierney.

* Gene Tierney in Leave Her to Heaven ( 1945 )

A Bell for Adano ( 1945 ) is a film directed by Henry King starring John Hodiak and Gene Tierney.

Some of his other notable directorial work was with The Keys of the Kingdom in 1944 and the 1945 film noir, Leave Her to Heaven with Gene Tierney who was nominated for Best Actress.

Due to the wartime travel restrictions, the first three games of the 1945 World Series were played in Detroit, where the Cubs won two games, including a one-hitter by Claude Passeau, and the final four were played at Wrigley.

In 1945, it was made available to farmers as an agricultural insecticide, and it played a minor role in the final elimination of malaria in Europe and North America.

* In the 1945 film Kings Row, Parris Mitchell, a psychiatrist played by Robert Cummings, recites the first two stanzas of " Invictus " to his friend Drake McHugh, played by Ronald Reagan, before revealing to Drake that his legs were unnecessarily amputated by a cruel doctor.

The 1945 – 46 season, when the league was played over two geographical groups due to the ravages of WWII, is not statistically considered, even if its title is fully official.

Cotten starred with Jennifer Jones in four films: the wartime domestic drama Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), the romantic drama Love Letters ( 1945 ), the western Duel in the Sun ( 1946 ), and the critically acclaimed Portrait of Jennie ( 1948 ), in which he played a melancholy artist who becomes obsessed with a girl who may have died many years ago.

From 1943 – 1945, the OSS played a major role in training Kuomintang troops in China and Burma, and recruited Kachin, and other indigenous irregular forces for sabotage as well as guides for Allied forces in Burma fighting the Japanese Army.

They also played in, and lost, the 1936, 1940, 1943, and 1945 Championship games, as well as Super Bowls VII and XVIII.

* Maurice Ravel is played as a " bit role " by actor Oscar Loraine in the 1945 Gershwin film biography Rhapsody in Blue.

Upon his return in 1945, Walter, who by now suffered from malaria, again played for Kaiserslautern, leading them to German championships in 1951 and 1953.

In 1926, he played the role of the criminal Ficsur in the original London production of Ferenc Molnár's Liliom ( The play was musicalized in 1945 by Rodgers and Hammerstein as Carousel, where Ficsur became Jigger Craigin, but Laughton never appeared in the musical version ).

After the war, Australia played a role in the Far Eastern Commission in Japan and supported Indonesian independence during that country's revolt against the Dutch ( 1945 – 49 ).

Most notably, the present-day Canucks ' minor league predecessor ( also known as the Vancouver Canucks ), played from 1945 to 1970 in the Pacific Coast Hockey League and Western Hockey League.

Davis-Monthan played a post-war role by housing German POW's from June 1945 to March 1946.

Johnson played in Benny Carter's orchestra between 1942 and 1945, and made his first recordings in 1942 under Carter's leadership, recording his first solo ( on Love for Sale ) in October, 1943.

* Dave Rowe ( born 1945 ), former professional football player who played for the Baltimore Colts, New England Patriots, Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers.

* Bob Maier ( 1915-1993 ), third baseman who played for the Detroit Tigers team that won the 1945 World Series in his only season in the Major Leagues.

Though earlier organizations bearing the same name date back as far as 1923, the Orchestra was officially founded in 1945 and played its first concert as the Atlanta Youth Symphony under the direction of Henry Sopkin, a Chicago music educator who remained its conductor until 1966.

As a lieutenant in the 477th, he played a role in the Freeman Field Mutiny in which 162 African-American officers were arrested for resisting segregation at a base near Seymour, Indiana in 1945.

Roach played on many of Parker's most important records, including the Savoy November 1945 session, a turning point in recorded jazz.

This was followed by The Way to the Stars ( 1945 ), which led to the role for which Howard is probably best remembered, the doctor in the 1945 film Brief Encounter, meeting and falling in love with a bored housewife played by Celia Johnson.

He played for the England once in an unofficial ' victory ' international against Wales in 1945, a game England lost 1-0.