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Date of Birth
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03-April-1916
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Place of Birth
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Sacramento
(California, United States of America, Sacramento County, Northern California, Area code 916)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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King of Three-Dot Journalism, Mr. San Francisco, Herbert Eugene Caen
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Profession
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Journalist
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Herbert Eugene "Herb" Caen was a San Francisco journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, painful puns and offbeat anecdotes—​"a continuous love letter to San Francisco" —​appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle for almost sixty years and made him a household name throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
The secret of Caen's success [was] his outstanding ability to take a wisp of fog, a chance phrase overheard in an elevator, a happy child on a cable car, a deb in a tizzy over a social reversal, a family in distress and give each circumstance the magic touch that makes a reader an understanding eyewitness of the day's happenings.
A special Pulitzer Prize called him the "voice and conscience" of San Francisco."
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