9. JIMMY "SCHNOZZOLA" DURANTE (American entertainer, 1893- ) He parlayed his elongated proboscis into a show business fortune as a song-and-dance comic star of stage, screen, and television. 10. ALBERT WEBER (American organoleptic analyst, 1905- ) His nose is his livelihood. He's an official smeller. According to Ruth Winter, in The Smell Book, Weber "is still at work protecting us from rotten food and drink. He is the dean of two dozen organoleptic analysts-food sniffers-working for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. A graduate chemist with a master's degree, Weber was testing food with his test tubes and microscopes in the FDA's New York District Laboratory in Manhattan in 1943, when a call came in from the Boston office. A shipment of suspect ocean perch was on its way. There was-and is-no way to test chemically for partly decomposed fish-they have to be smelled.
