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Former Cleveland Press reporter, John Tidyman, will appear at the Bay Village Branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library on Wednesday, Sept. 15, at 7:00 p.m. to discuss his newest book, "Gimme Rewrite, Sweetheart." You won't want to miss this fascinating presentation of stories from veteran reporters as they talk about life on the job at Cleveland's newspapers during the 1950s, '60s and '70s – when fierce competition between The Cleveland Press and The Plain Dealer made daily newspapers the most exciting business in town.

Contributors to the book are former staffers from the Plain Dealer and Cleveland Press, many of them familiar to readers from their bylines – Dick Feagler, Brent Larkin, Marge Alge, Don Bean, William Miller, Dan Coughlin, Dick Peery, George Condon, Helen Moise, Mike Roberts, Bob Dolgan and Bill Wynne, among others.

Their stories are funny, tragic, human, and sometimes outrageous. For example, Jim Dudas (Press) once bribed a prisoner with a carton of cigarettes so he would refuse an interview with the rival Plain Dealer; Whitey Wazman (Plain Dealer) ventured onto a crime scene and stumbled upon half a dozen officers, guns drawn, waiting in the dark for the real criminal; and William F. Miller (Plain Dealer) put on a hardhat and passed himself off as a Salvation Army worker to cover a Great Lakes ore boat fire.

Join us to hear these stories and many more from the heydays of Cleveland newspapers. To register for this event, please call the library at 440-871-6392.