{"id":20646,"date":"2014-08-06T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=20646"},"modified":"2014-08-06T08:08:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T12:08:40","slug":"columnists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/06\/columnists\/","title":{"rendered":"COLUMNISTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

I saw<\/strong><\/span> Wilma Salisbury, the former Cleveland Plain Dealer<\/em> dance and music critic, at a concert. She used to be feared\u00a0 — used to be<\/em>.\u00a0 When she stopped writing for the Plain Dealer<\/em>, she became just Wilma Salisbury.<\/p>\n

I saw Eleanor Mallet. She was a columnist a couple decades ago. Now she\u2019s simply Eleanor Mallet.<\/p>\n

Winsor French — the late Cleveland Press<\/em> columnist — arrived at work in a Rolls. This was in the 1930s. He was independently wealthy. He went all over the world during the Depression, reporting on glamorous parties, for working stiffs in Cleveland. He also wrote a lot about Cleveland nightlife.<\/p>\n

Have you<\/strong><\/span> read any book-length compilations by newspaper columnists? I read one good one: Eric Broder\u2019s funny The Great Indoors<\/em>. What if you read 45 Dick Feagler columns in a row? Would you die? \u00a0(Dick Feagler is an excellent writer but 45 columns in a row about the good old days, that’s rough.)<\/p>\n

Here are a few other former Cleveland columnists: Don Robertson, Alfred Lubrano, Jim Parker, Jim Neff, Mary Strassmyer, Tom Green . . . I\u2019m just getting started. (No Googling either.)<\/p>\n

I was a columnist once.\u00a0 I wrote about candy, sheepshead and the library for Sun Newspapers.\u00a0 I picked easy, uncontroversial subjects.\u00a0 I was too ambivalent.<\/p>\n

\"Sun<\/a>

Sun Press 7\/29\/82<\/p><\/div>\n

Terry Pluto<\/strong><\/span>, a Plain Dealer<\/em> sportswriter, moonlights as a religion columnist. I sometimes clip his columns for inspiration. Pluto phones clergy and asks (my guess), \u201cCan you tell us how to live — and preferably in three or fewer sentences.\u201d<\/p>\n

It’s tough to crank out columns weekly.\u00a0 Pluto quoted a rabbi who cited Pirke Avot<\/em> (a section of Talmud): \u201cThe one who is wealthy is satisfied with what he has.\u201d<\/p>\n

Do I covet Pluto’s job?<\/p>\n

Nope.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

I had an essay in Belt Mag last week about delis. (Boni: Some interesting comments at the end of the article.)\u00a0 Click on “Deli Men”<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\"corky<\/a><\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

\"YCKB<\/a>Clevelanders, Yiddishe Cup plays tomorrow (Thurs. Aug. 7) at 7 p.m. at John Carroll University.\u00a0 We’re on the lawn in front of the Grasselli Library.\u00a0 Park at the college lot across from Pizzazz restaurant and walk toward the campus.\u00a0 Bring a chair or blanket.<\/span><\/p>\n

The concert is free.\u00a0 If raining, the show is indoors at the Dolan Science Center.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw Wilma Salisbury, the former Cleveland Plain Dealer dance and music critic, at a concert. She used to be feared\u00a0 — used to be.\u00a0 When she stopped writing for the Plain Dealer, she became just Wilma Salisbury. I saw Eleanor Mallet. She was a columnist a couple decades ago. Now she\u2019s simply Eleanor Mallet. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-of-age","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20646"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20973,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20646\/revisions\/20973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}