He collaborated with many of the big name entertainers visiting Portland, among the most recent being Jimmy Durante and Phil Silvers.

Before Kaye had been on the air a year, he tied with Jimmy Durante for fifth place in the Radio Daily popularity poll.

Noted entertainers who performed for detained aliens and for U. S. and allied servicemen at the island included Rudy Vallee, Jimmy Durante, Bob Hope, and Lionel Hampton and orchestra.

* 1980 – Jimmy Durante, American actor and comedian ( b. 1893 )

She was also a regular on NBC's Jimmy Durante Show.

Paramount Pictures ' Bob Hope was Caught In The Draft, Warner Brothers told Phil Silvers and Jimmy Durante You're In The Army Now, Columbia Pictures put Fred Astaire in the army declaring You'll Never Get Rich, Hal Roach gave his new comedy team of William Tracy and Joe Sawyer Tanks a Million and 20th Century Fox had the former Hal Roach team of Laurel & Hardy going Great Guns.

* February 10 – Jimmy Durante, American actor, singer, and comedian ( d. 1980 )

In the same year, the Cotton Club Orchestra appeared on stage for several months in Florenz Ziegfeld's Show Girl, along with vaudeville stars Jimmy Durante, Eddie Foy, Jr., Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler, and with music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Gus Kahn.

On 4 August 1955, Miranda suffered a heart attack during a segment of the live NBC television series, The Jimmy Durante Show.

When the New Orleans Jazz style swept New York by storm in 1917 with the arrival of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, Jimmy Durante was part of the audience at Reisenweber's Cafe on Columbus Circle when ODJB played that venue.

Durante was very impressed with the band and invited them to play at a club called the Alamo in Harlem where Jimmy played piano.

Top comedy talents surfed the airwaves for many years: Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Victor Borge, Fanny Brice, Billie Burke, Bob Burns, Judy Canova, Jimmy Durante, Phil Harris, Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, Jean Shepherd, Red Skelton and Ed Wynn.

Walter Chrysler was not especially interested in his remote ancestors ; his collaborative author Boyden Sparkes says that one genealogical researcher reported " that he had a sea-going Dutchman among his forebears ; one Captain Jan Gerritsen Van Dalsen ", but that " as to that, Walter Chrysler made it plain to me he was in accord with Jimmy Durante: ' Ancestors?

James Francis " Jimmy " Durante ( February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980 ) was an American singer, pianist, comedian, and actor.

He first played with his cousin, whose name was also " Jimmy Durante.

Moore left in mid-1947, and the program returned October 1, 1947 as The Jimmy Durante Show.

On August 4, 1955, The Jimmy Durante Show on NBC was the venue of the final performance by the famous Brazilian singer Carmen Miranda.

The Fraternal Order of Eagles in his honor changed the name of their Children's Fund to the Jimmy Durante Children's Fund, and in his memory have raised over 20 million dollars to help children.

" Dis is Jimmy Durante, in puy-son!

Jimmy Durante is known to most modern audiences as the character who narrated and sang the 1969 animated special Frosty the Snowman.

The 1943 Tex Avery cartoon " What's Buzzin ' Buzzard " featured a vulture with a voice that sounded like Jimmy Durante.

In The Mouse-Merized Cat, Babbit ( a Bud Abbott mouse ) is briefly hypnotized to imitate Jimmy Durante singing Lullaby of Broadway.

In a 1993 episode of The Simpsons titled " Lady Bouvier's Lover ", after Grampa cries out, " Good night, Mrs. Bouvier, wherever you are ," the blue-haired lawyer announces himself in charge of Jimmy Durante's estate and therefore puts a halt to Abraham Simpson's " unauthorized imitation " of Durante.

Merman was hired as a torch singer at Les Ambassadeurs, where the headliner was Jimmy Durante, and the two became lifelong friends.

Jimmy Carter had officially ended the policy of Détente, by financially aiding the Mujahideen movement in neighboring Afghanistan, which served as a pretext for the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan six months later, with the aims of supporting the Afghan government, controlled by the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan.

Schneider served as a consultant to federal agencies and White House staff in the Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations.

# Thomas Watson, Jr. succeeded his father as IBM chairman and later served as Ambassador to the Soviet Union under Jimmy Carter.

Walter Frederick " Fritz " Mondale ( born January 5, 1928 ) is an American Democratic Party politician who served as the 42nd Vice President of the United States ( 1977 – 1981 ) under President Jimmy Carter, and as a United States Senator from Minnesota ( 1964 – 1976 ).

One of his grandsons ( by adoption ), Stephen Reinhardt, is a labor lawyer who has served notably on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit since his appointment by Jimmy Carter in 1980.

Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski (, ; born March 28, 1928 ) is a Polish American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman who served as United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981.

Her prison term was also eventually commuted by President Jimmy Carter, and Hearst was released from prison on February 1, 1979, having served 22 months.

Clark McAdams Clifford ( December 25, 1906 – October 10, 1998 ) was an American lawyer who served United States Presidents Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Carter, serving as United States Secretary of Defense for Johnson.

He served in the House longer than anyone else in Tennessee history ( though Jimmy Quillen, who eventually succeeded him as the 1st District's congressman, holds the record for the longest unbroken tenure in the House for a Tennessee congressman ), and only Kenneth McKellar served in both houses longer.

Bert Lance, an advisor to Jimmy Carter's successful presidential campaign, served as Chairman of the Board of Calhoun First National Bank, now owned by BB & T.

Jimmy D. Long of Natchitoches Parish served for 32 years in the Louisiana House.

Williamson was succeeded as mayor in 1966 by Jimmy Wilson, a grocer and banker, who served until 1972, when he won his only term in the Louisiana House of Representatives.

* Jimmy Doolittle, American aviation pioneer who served with great distinction as a general during the Second World War

Governor of N. C. Mayor Jimmy Haithcock was the longest serving mayor, having served 33 years and David Wilder served as a town commissioner for 40 years.

* Dean E. Hallmark, born in Robert Lee on January 20, 1914, served as the command pilot of B-25 # 6, the " Green Hornet ," on Jimmy Doolittle's Tokyo Raid of April 18, 1942.

From 1977 to 1981, during the Jimmy Carter administration, Perry served as undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, where he had responsibility for weapon systems procurement and research and development.

At two of the March shows in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, Jimmy Kimmel served as a guest star on bass clarinet during " The Impression That I Get ".

" Although the neighboring states of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Missouri would also produce boogie-woogie players and their boogie-woogie tunes, and despite the fact that Chicago would become known as the center for this music through such pianists as Jimmy Yancey, Albert Ammons, and Meade " Lux " Lewis, Texas was home to an environment that fostered creation of boogie-style: the lumber, cattle, turpentine, and oil industries, all served by an expanding railway system from the northern corner of East Texas to the Gulf Coast and from the Louisiana border to Dallas and West Texas.

The 23 centers in Vietnam and Thailand served as many as a million service members a month, and the USO presented more than 5, 000 performances during the Vietnam War featuring stars such as John Wayne, Ann-Margret, Sammy Davis Jr., Phyllis Diller, Martha Raye, Joey Heatherton, Wayne Newton, Jayne Mansfield, Redd Foxx, Rosey Grier, Anita Bryant, Nancy Sinatra, Jimmy Boyd, Lola Falana, and Bob Hope.

He represented New Orleans ' Twelfth Ward in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1960 to 1966, served on the New Orleans City Council as a member at-large from 1966 to 1970 and was the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under U. S. President Jimmy Carter from 1979 – 1981.

Eleanor Rosalynn Carter ( born Eleanor Rosalynn Smith ; August 18, 1927 ) is the wife of the former President of the United States Jimmy Carter and in that capacity served as the First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981.

Prior to that, Carlucci served in a variety of senior-level governmental positions, including Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity in the Richard Nixon administration, Deputy Director of the CIA in the Jimmy Carter administration, and Deputy Secretary of Defense and National Security Adviser in the Reagan administration.