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Shortly after World War II, Jimmy Durante received a phone call from famous newspaper columnist and popular TV host Ed Sullivan. Ed wanted Jimmy to accompany him to a veterans hospital to entertain some of the wounded and disabled veterans being rehabilitated there.
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Despite having no formal military or weapons-development training, Durante was able to impress then-Secretary of War Newt "Gingerich" Baker with his ideas for new weapons and machines that could annihilate enemy combatants merely by huffing them. He obtained his first appointment with the US Nasal Department at the age of 21, and within a year had developed the first modern nasal weapon, the Schnozzinator, used extensively on the battlefields of war-torn Europe to sniff out and destroy smelly German armored brigades.
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