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Article: The one and only: maybe he died 20 years ago, but Durante and his `Ink a dinkadoo' still charm TV watchers. (Television).(Jimmy Durante remembered)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- February 8, 2002
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What's dat? You wanna know what's the greatest moment of my life? I'll tell ya what's the greatest moment of my life! Was it the moment I was six inches away from John Paul II in New Orleans? No! Was it when, as a little boy, I saw Gene Autry in Macy's? No! Here it is.
There I was standing on the steps of the Fordham gym late at night in the early 1950s. Inside the band was playing for the junior prom.
Then this car pulls up and, like all the downs pouring out of a Volkswagen in the circus, out pops this little guy, 5-foot-7, and his entourage. He sweeps up the steps and into the bright lights of the show.
It was the one and only Jimmy Durante. ...
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