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    media related to Herb Caen. Wikiquote has quotations related to Herb Caen. Portals:  San Francisco Bay Area  Biography Chronology Herb Caen's first column...
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  • travel. The term "beatnik" was coined by San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen in 1958, as a derogatory label for the followers of the Beat Generation...
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  • County).[citation needed] Baghdad by the Bay – title of a book of essays by Herb Caen, and a nickname he used for the city because of the cosmopolitan cultural...
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    the Bohemian Club in the 1890s. Charles Clegg, when asked about it by Herb Caen, also said it was from San Francisco, not New York. Other reporting supports...
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    that would push us up the evolutionary ladder. Jay Stevens In June 1967, Herb Caen was approached by "a distinguished magazine" to write about why hippies...
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  • Bon Vivant". SF Gate. Caen, Herb. "HERB CAEN -- Once Upon a Deadline". SFGATE. Retrieved 2024-01-10. Caen, Herb. "HERB CAEN -- What Is This Thing Called...
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  • for as long as this situation continued, he would not be satisfied". Herb Caen, Pulitzer-prize-winning columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, became...
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    resurgence of the suffix -nik in the English language. The American writer Herb Caen was inspired to coin the term "beatnik" in an article about the Beat Generation...
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    Basin and Fisherman's Wharf was named "Herb Caen Way..." after the death of celebrated local columnist Herb Caen in 1997. The three dots, or ellipsis,...
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  • cream flavors. He died in 1996 due to heart failure. Caen, Herb (January 16, 1996). "HERB CAEN -- These Are the Items". SFGATE. "DEATHS". Washington...
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  • newspapers have collected them. The San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen reported irregularly on reader-submitted gems, including a substitute...
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    Road: "The Earth is an Indian thing." The term "beatnik" was coined by Herb Caen of the San Francisco Chronicle on April 2, 1958, blending the name of...
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  • identified, such as Kurt Hirschhorn, Frank Jordan, Cecil Williams and Herb Caen. Daria Halprin appears in the film as herself. Also appearing in the film...
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  • Edward Bennett Williams Stewart Alsop Ben Bradlee William F. Buckley Jr. Herb Caen Walter Cronkite Jason Epstein Rowland Evans Katharine Graham Harold Hayes...
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    Fong was made famous by columnist Herb Caen, who often described the misanthropic Fong during his visits to Sam Wo. Caen would interview Fong on matters...
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    sea. At the time of her death, the San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen wrote "In this strangely flat era of 'diversity,' she was the rarest of...
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    coining the term "Twinkie defense". The day after the verdict, columnist Herb Caen wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle about the police support for White...
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    such columnists as veteran sportswriter Prescott Sullivan, the popular Herb Caen, who took an eight-year hiatus from the Chronicle (1950–1958), and Kenneth...
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    board of Sotheby's. Her home was dubbed the "San Francisco Embassy" by Herb Caen. In 1987, she and her husband founded the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation...
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  • Herb Caen (1916–1997), American journalist Herb Carneal (1923–2007), American sportscaster Herb Carnegie (1919–2012), Canadian ice hockey player Herb...
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    hanging out in bathrooms." Milk contacted a newspaper. Several days later, Herb Caen, a columnist at The San Francisco Chronicle, outed Sipple as gay and exposed...
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    coffeehouse and nightclub owner, poet, actor, and hipster. Newspaper columnist Herb Caen called him the "King of the Beatniks." Corpulent, standing 6 feet 7 inches...
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  • several times recently." "San Francisco Bay Guardian Issue 02.04". 1967. "Herb Caen made Carol Doda a fixture in his column". San Francisco Chronicle. 12...
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    poets, and photographers have long been inspired by the fog, including Herb Caen, Jack Kerouac, August Kleinzahler, and Arthur Ollman. Sam Green made a...
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  • Documentary". LA Weekly. February 2, 2012. Retrieved April 4, 2015. Caen, Herb (1990-11-03). "Herb Caen". The Honolulu Advertiser. p. 26. Retrieved 2018-10-23 –...
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  • Students Need Athletics, Culture and Kicks (a phrase thought up by columnist Herb Caen), was a benefit concert held in San Francisco on March 23, 1975. Playing...
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  • "Friscophobia" to newspaper columnist Herb Caen, whose first book, published in 1953, was "Don't Call it Frisco." Caen was considered by many to be the recognized...
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  • Herald. March 28, 1972. p. 5. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via Newspapers.com. Herb Caen (October 28, 1971). "San Francisco". The Honolulu Advertiser. p. F-7....
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  • become the San Francisco Giants (logo pictured) San Francisco columnist Herb Caen coins the term Beatnik, adding the suffix "-nik" from Sputnik I to the...
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  • term having been coined in 1958 by San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen). However, this may not have been accurate as most of the prominent "Beat"...
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