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DIED. HERB CAEN, 80, classic newspaper columnist; in San Francisco. In the brightly written rat-a-tat of the daily column he produced for 58 years, mostly in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Pulitzer-prizewinning Caen was raconteur, funnyman, tipster, nightclubber, friend of the powerful and tireless chronicler of "Baghdad by the Bay," the city he loved and that loved him back...
AILING. HERB CAEN, 80, prolific Pulitzer-prizewinning San Francisco Chronicle columnist-humorist; of lung cancer; in San Francisco. Caen announced his illness in his column...
...after 2,600 employees walked out of San Francisco's two daily newspapers -- the Chronicle and the Examiner -- management tried to get around the picket lines by publishing the news on the Internet. But the strikers put out their own electronic tabloid -- complete with columnists Herb Caen and Jon Carroll -- and were the first to report that Dianne Feinstein may have once employed an illegal alien as a housekeeper...
...theInternet-- as did one by the striking workers. Both the Chronicle and the Examiner were set to go on the Internet later this month -- but the strike moved up the date to Wednesday morning. The strikers tabloid, the Free Press, hit the 'net Thursday morning, featuring favorite columnist Herb Caen and a scoop on Dianne Feinstein's bid for re-election to the Senate. The Free Press reported thatFeinstein employed an illegal alienin the 1980s, a fact later confirmed by U.S. immigration officials. Employees of the two newspapers walked off the job Tuesday night in a dispute over...
...Paris. Hitler's headquarters refused to believe me and decided it was only a dummy raid. We were not permitted to counterattack. I believe to this day that if we had counterattacked by 2 a.m., we could have got to the coast and held the bridges on the Caen canal...