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James Francis Durante (/ d ə ˈ r æ n t i / də-RAN-tee, Italian:; February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980) was an American comedian, actor, singer, and pianist.His distinctive gravelly speech, Lower East Side accent, comic language-butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and prominent nose helped make him one of the United States' most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s.
Bama University of Alabama; BC Boston College; Bethel College; BCC Bronx Community College; Berkeley University of California, Berkeley; BGSU Bowling Green State University
Julie Beth Lovins (Ph.D. 1973) – computational linguist who developed the first stemming algorithm for word matching; Antonio Martino (Ph.D. 1968) – Professor of Economics at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, former Italian Ministry of Defense; Vivian Carter Mason (A.B. 1925) – gender and civil rights advocate
American Academy of Art (Chicago); Columbia College Chicago (Chicago); Hebrew Theological College (Skokie, Illinois); Lake Forest College (Lake Forest, Illinois); Moody Bible Institute (Chicago)
The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) [12] is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side , near the shore of Lake Michigan about 7 miles (11 km) from the Loop .
This list of University of Chicago faculty contains administrators, long-term faculty members, and temporary academic staffs of the University of Chicago.The long-term faculty members consists of tenure/tenure-track and equivalent academic positions, while that of temporary academic staffs consists of lecturers (without tenure), postdoctoral researchers, visiting professors or scholars ...
In 2012, Newsweek ranked UChicago 5th for having happy students, 9th for academic rigor, and 12th for being stressful. [10] In 2012, the QS World University Rankings ranked the University of Chicago as the 4th best institution of higher learning in the United States, after MIT, Harvard, and Yale, as well as 8th in the entire world. [11]
Schnozzola: The Story of Jimmy Durante. NY: The Viking Press, 1951. Minutes of the Last Meeting. NY; Random House, 1954. [a portrait of some of his associates in Hollywood, notably critic and poet Sadakichi Hartmann; also featuring W.C. Fields, John Barrymore and artist John Decker] Skyline: A Reporter’s Reminiscence of the 1920s.