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Most of the way through Belgium and down to the Riviera, then through the Basque country and up to Brittany, the leader was Frenchman René Vietto, the favorite. But on the tough St. Brieuc-Caen lap, a countryside which U.S. troops also found tough going three years ago, Vietto tired. Almost half of the entrants had dropped out. Up moved Italian Pierre Brambilla and Breton Jean Robic...
...could easily afford to admit some boners. In the Bay area, parrot-beaked Herb Caen, 31, has a more devoted following than any syndicated columnist, and in the Chronicle he far outdraws Drew Pearson and Billy Rose, the only outsiders Editor Paul Smith prints. Smith has found out what many papers could confirm if they only tried,: a good local column doesn't have to be brilliantly written (Caen's isn't) to outshine all the syndicators that money...
...Caen Is Able. Herb was a 20-year-old police reporter and part-time radio columnist for the Sacramento Union when his juvenile gibes at radio caught Smith's eye in 1936. When Smith interviewed him, Caen thought it wise to add three years to his age ("I didn't know he was only 27 himself...
...Caen's Chronicle column got off to a slow start, for conservative San Franciscans whose names were newsworthy didn't like to make Caen's kind of news. Without benefit of the pressagents who save legwork for Hollywood and Manhattan gossips, Caen created a cafe society of his own. He haunted nightspots, cocktail parties and theater openings, built an army of volunteer tipsters. Unlike most of his Broadway rivals, Columnist Caen rarely had anything malicious to say about anybody...
While still new at the game, he wrote a naive item about some "hidden gambling dens" on Turk Street. Police raided the joints and the next night the gamblers asked Caen to come down for a drink. "I thought they were being good guys," he says, "but they slipped me a Mickey." Today he is more careful about the company he keeps. He makes $24,700 a year from the Chronicle and a weekly radio program for a beer sponsor (titled What's Brewing in San Francisco). He can afford to turn down handsome offers from Hearst...