Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after 14 years on the San Francisco Chronicle, Columnist Herb Caen strolled over to Hearst's Examiner, changed the name of his column (from "It's News to Me" to "Baghdad-by-the-Bay"), and nearly doubled his salary (to $30,000). Last week Columnist Caen announced gleefully that he was going back to his old paper-at his new price. The Chronicle's normally tight management not only agreed to match Caen's Hearst paycheck, now up to $38,000, but promised him a raise next year as well. Starting date: Jan. 15, when...
...hymning San Francisco's charms in suitably breezy prose, Sacramento-born Herb Caen (rhymes with reign) has long enjoyed the title "Mr. San Francisco," and one of the most faithful followings of any local columnist in the U.S. (TIME, July 1). On his three-block walk in 1950, Caen took with him 10,000 to 15,000 readers. The upward-struggling Chronicle (circ. 190,045), which has run six columnists in Caen's space without filling the gap, hopes that Herb's homecoming will draw an extra 30,000 circulation and regain some of the advertising that...
...vice president and European manager of the United Press. Pinkley's successor: Hugh A. ("Bud") Lewis, longtime city editor of the Times. His probable first step: to attune the Mirror-News's editorial policy more closely to the Times, dropping such Ike-chiding editorial-page features as Columnist Marquis Childs, Cartoonist Herblock...
Married. Harry Lillis (Bing) Crosby, 53, granddad of U.S. crooners, multimillionaire golfer, horseman, father of four sons (24 to 19); and curvaceous Cinemactress Kathy Grant (real name: Olive Kathryn Grandstaff), 23, who first met him during a 1953 interview as a part-time columnist ("A Texas Gal in Hollywood") for Texas Oilman Glenn McCarthy's string of newspapers; he for the second time (his first wife, Musicomedienne Dixie Lee, died in 1952), she for the first; in Las Vegas...
...Trib editorial permitted itself a single understatement: "The case itself is a relatively trivial one." It grew, explained the editorial, out of "certain remarks" about Judy Garland that Columnist Torre attributed to "a CBS spokesman." Now that Singer Garland is suing CBS for $1,000,000 for those remarks, her lawyers need to know−and the Trib will not say&8722;who the spokesman was. Nowhere in its ten-column coverage did the paper report what the CBS spokesman said. The nub of his remarks: Judy "won't make up her mind about anything. We just think...