OBITUARY Ward Kimball, 88 Reuters News Agency Los Angeles — Pioneering animator Ward Kimball, who helped modernize Mickey Mouse's look in 1938 and created the character Jiminy Cricket for the Disney classic Pinocchio, died Monday at age 88. Mr. Kimball, a member of Walt Disney's trusted cadre of cartoon artists known as the "nine old men," died of natural causes at at a hospital in Arcadia, a suburb northeast of Los Angeles, the Walt Disney Co. said in a statement. During a Disney career that stretched from 1934 until his retirement in 1973, Mr. Kimball animated or served as directing...
