European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 23, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Jimmy and partners Sonny King left and Eddie Jackson where will we be tomorrow if we Don t be Nice to people today continued from Page 15 they keep on Laughin. I la do  age is not one of Jimmy s favorit topics. I try to be outa town on my both Day to av9id any fuss. They wanted to have a big Blowout for my last one when i was in Miami but i would t let pm. I Don t think about How Oldi am.  a funny thing. Paul Whiteman once told me this As Long As you re Only 49, you can be a Young Man. But the minute you turn 50, everybody starts Callin you pops " despite his impatience with the subject of age Jimmy does t mind reminiscing. He reflected that he might be a bandleader but for the Workings of Fate. You know i was a pretty Good piano player he said. They wrote me up in one of them histories of jazz As Bein one of the two Best of my Day. Back in those times i used to play for Clayto nand Jackson and whenever i tried to do a Little something in the act the Man Ager would say Shu Dup and play the piano then we got our own Jernt the club Durant an i was still just playing for Clayton and Jackson. Then one night isaid Why the hell should i sit at the piano All night when we re Runnin the Jernt i got pm to hire another piano player so i could move around and Metinta the act. That s when i started Doin  the meal was Over this sunday evening Jimmy hurried Back to the Frontier. As he entered the hotel he was stopped by another group of tourists. Why it s Jimmy Durante can we have your autograph sure sure he said genially. Where you folks from he stopped to Chat even though he was due onstage in a few minutes. Returning to the trailer dressing room he changed into the Tuxedo clamped the Fedora on his headband waited in the wings. The or Chestra swelled and he shot onto the stage. After planting his gum under the piano he shoved his hat Down onto hipness and began singing you gotta Start off each Day with a song even when things go wrong. You la feel better you la even look better. Til quit when they Stop laughin9. If that Ever happens full know ifs time. Nobody la have to Tell me Page 16 Jimmy the hippie of course with Peter Lav Ford on to show. Elf a a the stars and stripes sunday