Page 10-Wednesday, January 30, 1980-The Michigan Daily ENTERTAINER REMEMBERED AS WARM, FUNNY: Jimmy Durante dies at age 86 (Continued from PageI1)' NONE OF Durante's family was present when he died, hospital spokeswoman Chris Thomas said. "The family went home about midnight," said family spokesman Joe Bleeden. However, he said Durante's wife, nephews Bobby and Julie Romano and actor Desi Arnaz planned to visit Durante's body at Godeau - and Mar- tinoni Funeral Home. Dick Palmer, a spokesman for the funeral directors, said a rosary and Mass were scheduled Thursday evening at Good Shepherd Roman Catholic Church in Beverly Hills, with a semi-private interment Friday mor- ning at Holy Cross Cemetery. He got his start in show biz as a piano player in a Coney Island saloon at the age of 17. After he achieved artistic and financial success, he helped many others along the way. He earned a fortune during a career that spanned the era from honky-tonk joints to Roaring Twenties speakeasies ENERGY. We can't afford to waste it. to television. Friends said he gave most of it away - to charitable causes, to almost anyone with a hard luck story. DURANTE SUFFERED a stroke in 1972 and was partially paralyzed. After that he stayed pretty much to the con- fines of his Beverly Hills home with his second wife Margaret who survives him. They had an adopted daughter Cecilie. A thin singer named Frank Sinatra was among those he helped up the lad- der of success. "The world lost a great friend when Jimmy Durante breathed his final 'Inka Dinka Doo'," said Sinatra. "He came to my aid when I was just a kid with stars in my eyes, just as he came to the aid of a world looking for laughs and songs and entertainment all during his lifetime." DURANTE'S trademarks - in ad- dition to his prominent nose - were such songs as "Inka Dinka Doo" and "I Know Darn Well I Can Do Without Broadway, But Can Broadway Do Without Me?" He loved to interrupt his own act by bellowing the catch phrase, "Stop da music!" He ended his TV shows with: "Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are." He once explained that Mrs. Calabash was a reference to his first wife, Maud, who died in 1943. Durante starred in such films as "Two Girls and a Sailor," "Ziegfeld Follies," "Music for Millions" and "The Cuban Love Song." His stage hits included "The New Yorker," "Show Girl," "Jumbo" and "Strike Me Pink." DURANTE'S LAST regular show was ABC-TV's "Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters," a musical variety series introduced in the fall of 1969. Prior to that, he starred in several series of his own. "You put a joke in modern dress," he once said, "but the substance is the same, just as people are the same although the clothes they are wearin' may be a diff'rent style. People like to laugh, and I like to make 'em laugh. That makes me happy, makin' them happy. That's my life." 4 0 ! oI REAGAN for President meeting Jan. 31 7:30 pm Assembly Hall Michigan Union Reagan for President-gMichigan Division P.O. Box 1526, Troy, Michigan 48099. (313) 643-6618 TAKE THE LEAD Help New Students Discover the University of Michigan BE AFA;LL ORIENTA TION LEAqDER Pick up applications at the Orientation Office (2530 SAB) from Mon. Jan. 28 to Fri. Feb. 22, 1980 *an affirmative action non-discriminatory emp/oyer* Body recovered AP Photo The body of a U.S. coast guardsman is pulled from the water by a recovery team after yesterday's collision of a coast guard buoy tender with the tanker Capicorn near St. Petersburg, Fla. Four coast guardsmen have been reported dead and more than 20 are missing. I 01i MID-JUNE CLOSING WILL AFFECT 3,500: Youngstown steelworkers protest Billiards A Special ! rates reduced 14 am to 6pm every day at the Union : YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP)-U.S. Steel Corp. agreed yesterday to hold ,continuing meetings with union leaders over plans to shut down its last two plants in Youngstown, a union spokesman said. "They gave us a timetable for the shutdown," said Robert Vasquez, president of United Steelworkers Local 1330, which represents workers who will lose their jobs when the plants close by mid-June. VASQUEZ WAS one of four union local presidents who met in a closed- door session with William Kirwan, U.S. Steel's Youngstown superintendent, and Charles Richards, superintendent of personnel for the company. The meeting came a day after more than 100 steelworkers stormed into U.S. Steel's local headquarters to protest plans to close the mills. The workers pushed their way into company offices and roamed the halls for several hours, seeking executives who might listen to their requests. They finally left at Vasquez' request. f VASQUEZ SAID Kirwan told him the company's reality division would put together a portfolio that union and community leaders could consider if they want to buy the plants or any part of them. U.S. Steel announced Nov. 27 it would close its Ohio Works and McDonald Works in the Youngstown area, and close or curtail operations at 15 other mills in other states. Steel industry layoffs are now ap- proaching 10,000 jobs in the region. They began in September 1977 with the elimination of 4,100 jobs by Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. Jones & Laughlin Corp. closed most of its operations here in December, eliminating 1,500 jobs. UNION OFFICIALS have mentioned buying the U.S. Steel plants with the help of a $100 million federal loan pledged to the area in 1977 by the Carter adminsitration for a "viable" steelmaking project. An additional $125 million in federal loan guarantees, administered by the Mahoning Valley Economic Develop- ment Agency, has been offered for "in- dustrial diversification," and 'union leaders mentioned tapping that as a money source for purchasing the plan- ts. "There may be a plan to lease a plant with an option to buy," Vasquez said af- ter the meeting. He said he had no idea how much it might cost to take over the plants. "WE ARE examining an economic cooperative between workers who would buy shares, people in the com- munity and area fabricators," Vasquez said. "If we can get a commitment for- 60,000 tons of steel a month, w probably can go with some plan. A U.S. Steel spokesman said representatives of its realty division were in Youngstown yesterday to start appraising the facilities. The spokesman, who asked not be iden- tified, said that after the appraisal the division would see what the market was for such property. U.S. Steel's cuts are expected to af- feet 3,500 workers, but a compano spokesman said some of those would be transferred and others, retired. The company has never said how many would be laid off, but has set a target date of June 3 for completing present orders and closing the mills, which have operated since the late 19th cen- tury. U.S. REP. Lyle Williams, a Youngstown Republican, has joined steelworkers in a federal court suit seeking to force U.S. Steel to keep it* Youngstown plants operating. The suit, scheduled for hearing in Cleveland next month, essentially alleges breach of a verbal agreement by U.S. Steel board chairman David M. Roderick. 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