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The unique thing aboiut the Jimmy Durante Children's Fund grants is that nearly dollar-for-dollar all money raised in the state is returned to that state in the form of grants to children-helping organizations of that state's choosing. The selection of the recipients is up to the State Aerie President, with the approval of the State Executive Board. It is stressed, when the grants are made available to the state's, that the Auxiliary be consulted when selections are made. The Auxiliaries have always been the mainstay of the Jimmy Durante Children's Fund and should have a say and a part in the selection and presentation.
Not one dime of the contributions to the Jimmy Durante Children's Fund or the abused children's project goes for expenses of any kind. One hundred percent of all money is sent to the Children's Fund or Abused Children's Project is used for grants to Child-helping establishments with nothing taken out for overhead expenses, campaign costs, salaries, etc.
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Grants from the Jimmy Durante Children's Fund and Child Abuse and Children's Aids Project are made available throughout the year. Grants are allotted to the states/provinces based on the amount raised the previous year.
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Durante continued his film appearances through It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) (in which he dies at the beginning) and television appearances through the early 1970s. He narrated the Rankin-Bass animated Christmas special Frosty the Snowman (1969), re-run for many years since. The television work ... included a series of commercial spots for Kellogg's Corn Flakes cereals in the early 1960s, which introduced Durante's gravelly growl and narrow-eyed, large-nosed countenance to millions of children. "Dis is Jimmy Durante, in puy-son!" was his introduction to some of the Kellogg's spots. One of his last appearances was in a memorable television commercial for the 1973 Volkswagen Beetle, where he proclaimed that the new, roomier Beetle had "plenty of breathin' room....for da old schnozzola!"
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Durante continued his film appearances through 1963 and television appearances through 1970. He eventually narrated the Rankin-Bass animated Christmas special Frosty the Snowman, re-run for many years since. The television work ... included a series of commercial spots for Kellogg's Corn Flakes cereals in the early 1960s, which introduced Durante's gravelly growl and narrow-eyed, large-nosed countenance to millions of children. "Dis is Jimmy Durante, in puy-son!" was his introduction to some of the Kellogg's spots. In 1963, Durante recorded an album of pop standards, September Song. The album became a best-seller and provided Durante's re-introduction, to yet another generation, almost three decades later.
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After an early career in vaudeville, Durante had established himself as the lovable comedian whose laughs came at his own expense rather than by belittling others. His prominent probiscus earned him the nickname “Schnozzola,” which he parlayed into a character in the film The New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford (1931). He appeared in two dozen movies in the '30s, including Jumbo (1935), and did several other films in the '40s before turning to hosting variety shows on television in the '50s. Though he died nearly two decades ago, children today still know him as the narrator of Frosty the Snowman (1969).
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