Herb Caen
Herb Caen
Herbert Eugene "Herb" Caenwas a San Francisco journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, painful puns and offbeat anecdotes—"a continuous love letter to San Francisco"—appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle for almost sixty yearsand made him a household name throughout the San Francisco Bay Area...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth3 April 1916
CountryUnited States of America
fall humility men
The world of Manhattan is small and tightly knit, and the man on top retains a certain humility. He knows how far and fast he can fall by looking at the guy across the street. The view from the $250,000 apartment covers a lot of ground, most of it condemned.
lost loved-and-lost attorney
It is better to have loved and lost, but only if you have a good attorney.
car chevrolet american-cars
All American cars are basically Chevrolets.
humorous san-francisco used
San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was.
baseball matter clock
The clock doesn?t matter in baseball.
cities san-francisco
God! I loove this city!
Philosophically, I don't like doing commercials.
san-francisco heaven one-day
One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.
football baseball weather
We (San Francisco) have football weather during baseball season, and baseball weather during football season.
san-francisco building wells
Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.
order interesting redundancy
We are reorganizing in order to eliminate duplication and redundancy.
cutting play style
Best trumpet: Mike Vax, an alumnus of the Kenton Band, who plays every style with a bright cutting edge, throwing in bop riffs here and there.
use paper matter
A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing.
life past life-is
I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.