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Herbert Eugene Caenwas a San Francisco humorist and journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, and offbeat puns and anecdotes–“A continuous love letter to San Francisco”–appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle for almost sixty yearsand made him a household name throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
“The secret of Caen’s success”, wrote the editor of a rival publication, 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.