Word: herbe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...growing throng is Society Columnist Frances Moffatt, who after eleven years as chief chitchatterer for the Examiner, gave the paper notice one Monday and flounced off to a champagne reception at the Chronicle only three days later. Boob Audience. Standout among the Chronicle's columnists is Veteran Herb Caen, 47, whose pieces in praise of his beloved "Baghdad by the Bay" are credited by Newhall with drawing 35,000 extra readers. Caen defected in 1950, when the Examiner offered to double his $15,000 salary, but he returned to the Chronicle eight years later...
...Hall has failed to produce anything quite as tempting as Herb's tripes â la mode de Caen. Despite the steady drain of funds caused by the San Francisco operation, Hearst accountants seem wary of swinging their well-honed axes on the late chief's favorite daily. But rumors periodically crop up that the News Call Bulletin, created in 1959 by a merger between the Hearst and Scripps-Howard afternoon papers, may be scheduled for demolition. If that happens, the Examiner will probably switch to afternoon publication. Hearst executives deny the rumors, but since William Randolph Hearst...
...Pete Pague, number three, Herb Wollan, number four, John Olson, number six, and Doug Eaton, number seven, came through to win the match for the Crimson. Olson posted the day's biggest win, 6 and 5, while the others all won with little difficulty...
...days ago defending champion Mike Neely of Yale was the definite favorite in the tournament; the Eli star lost only to Jerry Levin of Cornell and Herb Fitzgibbon of Princeton all year, and he had beaten Sullivan last year when the Elis smashed Harvard...
Captain and number one player Paul Sullivan, blanked 6-0 in the first set by Princeton's Herb Fitzgibbon, came storming back in the second set. He swept the first four games and had a set point at 5-1, but couldn't hold off Fitzgibbon's comeback. The Tiger star swept the next six games...