“Mind you don’t fall off them ladders, noo, you don’t want to break the petunias,” advises a Minnesota Fats regular, a plume of cigarette smoke curling up from his mischievous smile.
Jim Klobuchar, Minnesota newspaperman and senatorâs father, dies at 93
By Katharine Q. Seelye New York Times,Updated May 19, 2021, 1:47 p.m.
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Jim Klobuchar was a renowned sports writer and general-interest columnist in Minnesota for decades.
Straight out of central casting, he was celebrated for his derring-do: He once held a piece of chalk between his lips while a sharpshooter took aim at it. He was a finalist for NASAâs initiative to send a journalist into space, until the Challenger explosion in 1986 ended the program. He scaled the Matterhorn eight times and Kilimanjaro five.
And he could make readers weep, as when he wrote about a 5-year-old girl with a brain tumor who loved to ride the rails: âShe was cradled in her motherâs lap on the observation car of the Milwaukee Roadâs Hiawatha, a tidy young lady. A dying little girl, taking her last train ride.â
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Jim Klobuchar, longtime Star Tribune columnist and adventurer, dies at 93 The father of Sen. Amy Klobuchar spent more than four decades in journalism. May 12, 2021 2:27pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Jim Klobuchar, an intrepid son of the Iron Range who with grace and puckish wit chronicled the lives of ordinary and fabled Minnesotans as a longtime columnist for the Star Tribune, died Wednesday at the Emerald Crest care facility in Burnsville. He was 93.
From 1961, when he left the Associated Press to work for the Minneapolis Tribune, until his retirement in 1995, Klobuchar trained an amused and perceptive eye every week on the state s culture, sports and politics. His energetic exploits both in and out of the newsroom made his name a household word in Minnesota long before he became known as the father of the state s senior U.S. senator.