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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 Collection...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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