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for his 75th birthday, he did a one-
man show to benefit the JET theater.
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"Solly was one of the most cul-
aul Wineman, who graced
tured human beings I've known, with
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the local airwaves for nearly
a marvelous flair for whimsy," said
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five decades as "Paul
Orbach. "He always had a direction
Winter," had a flair for
that he took things that just delighted
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bringing everyday Detroiters into the
people, because it was always different
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mix of culture and ideas.
from what you expected. He was very
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Mr. Wineman, 77,
well read and
of Farmington Hills,
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always gave you
succumbed Sept. 21 to
something to
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lung cancer. For 30
think about."
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years he was a fixture
Mrs. Orbach's
on public television in
husband, Cantor
Detroit and was
Harold Orbach
enjoyed by listeners of
of Temple Israel,
Top-40, talk and vari-
officiated at Mr.
ety radio before that.
Wineman's
His quarter-century
funeral Sept. 24
teaching career brought
at Ira Kaufman
the humanities to life
Chapel.
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for thousands of night
Mr. Wineman
and weekend students
earned both
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bachelor's and
University.
master's degrees
"His style was a
in
philosophy at
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Saul Wineman, a. k. a. Paul Winter
classy blend of wit,
the University of
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intelligence and bound-
Michigan and
less curiosity, sparked by a touch of
was a classical music announcer at its
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irreverence," said Dan Alpert, station
radio station, WUOM-FM.
manager of Detroit's public television
In 1952, he began 12 years with
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station, WTVS-Channel 56.
WXYZ-AM radio in Detroit, starting
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Mr, Wineman was gifted with a
out with a format of classical, jazz,
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distinctive baritone voice and had an
folk and show music, including the
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impulse for bursting into song, spoof
variety program, "Winter
or dialects, often with a sprinkling of
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Wonderland." When the station's for-
Yiddishisms.
mat changed to rock'n'roll in the late
Forever the storyteller, he once
1950s, he went with the flow, playing
dubbed himself the "Crown Prince of
music like Ray Charles' "What'd I
Smoked Fish," inspired by his child-
Say" on his noontime show, but also
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hood memories of riding with his
occasionally injecting philosophical or
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father when he delivered the delicacy
cultural references amid the ballads of 0
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to the numerous delis in Detroit's old
teenage angst.
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Jewish neighborhoods.
Then-nighttime disc jockey Lee
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As an adult, Mr. Wineman would
Allen described Mr. Wineman's voice
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frequent his boyhood haunts at the
as "perfect, like none I had ever heard.
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Mr. Wineman left WXYZ in 1964
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that he was, grade its taste — say a
to do talk radio in Boston, but
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talk-telephone format to Detroit on
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Through his longtime friendship
WTAK-AM, mixing it up with listen-
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with Jewish Ensemble Theatre artistic
ers on the issues of the day. In 1970,
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director Evelyn Orbach, he helped
he joined Channel 56, but also did
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found the company at the West
variety radio stints with WJR-AM
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and classical station WQRS-FM.
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