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Herbert Eugene "Herb" Caen (April 3, 1916 – February 2, 1997) 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"〔("The 1996 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Special Awards and Citations. Biography." ). The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved November 1, 2013.〕—appeared in the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' for almost sixty years (excepting a relatively brief defection to the ''San Francisco Examiner''), and made him a household name throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. "The secret of Caen's success", wrote the editor of rival publication, was A special Pulitzer Prize called him the "voice and conscience" of San Francisco."〔("The 1996 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Special Awards and Citations. Citation." ). The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved November 1, 2013.〕 ==Career== Caen was born April 3, 1916, in Sacramento, California, although he liked to point out that his parents—pool hall operator Lucien Caen and Augusta (Gross) Caen—had spent the summer nine months previous at the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. After high school (where he wrote a column, "Corridor Gossip") he covered sports for ''The Sacramento Union''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Herb'S Milestones )〕 In 1936 Caen began writing a radio programming column for the ''San Francisco Chronicle''.〔View a 1997 film about Herb Caen's life made by KRON-TV, which reviews his personal history and career: https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/227861〕 When that column was discontinued in 1938, Caen proposed a daily column on the city itself; "It's News to Me" first appeared July 5. Excepting Caen's four years in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II and a 1950–1958 stint at the ''San Francisco Examiner'', his column appeared every day except Saturday until 1990, when it dropped to five times per week.〔〔 "What makes him unique," a colleague wrote in 1996, "is that on good days his column offers everything you expect from an entire newspaper—in just 25 or so items, 1,000 or so words... Readers who turned to Herb on Feb. 14, 1966, learned that Willie Mays' home was on the market for $110,000. The Bank of America now owned the block where it wanted to build its headquarters. ''Dr. Zhivago'' director David Lean was in town. Meanwhile, 'Mike Connolly is ready to concede that the situation in Vietnam is complex: "Even my cab driver can't come up with a solution."'" thumb Caen had considerable influence on popular culture, particularly its language. He coined the term ''beatnik'' in 1958〔SFGate.com. Archive. Herb Caen, April 2, 1958. (''Pocketful of Notes'' ). Retrieved June 4, 2009.〕 and popularized ''hippie'' during San Francisco's 1967 Summer of Love.〔SFGate.com. Archive. Herb Caen, June 25, 1967. (''Small thoughts at large'' ). Retrieved June 4, 2009;〕 He popularized obscure—often playful—terms such as ''Frisbeetarianism'', and ribbed nearby Berkeley as ''Berserkeley'' for its often-radical politics.〔 His many recurring if irregular features included "Namephreaks"—people with names ''(aptronyms)'' peculiarly appropriate or inappropriate to their vocations or avocations, such as post office cancellation machine operator Nancy Canceller. Among the colorful personalities making periodic appearances in Caen's columns was Edsel Ford Fung, whose local reputation as "the world's rudest waiter" was due in no small part to Caen, who lamented him here in 1984: Though Caen relied on "an army of reliable tipsters" all items were fact-checked.〔 Now and then an item (usually a joke or pun) was credited to a mysterious "Strange de Jim", whose first contribution ("Since I didn't believe in reincarnation in any of my other lives, why should I have to believe in it in this one?") appeared in 1972. Sometimes suspected to be a Caen alter ego, de Jim (whose letters bore no return address, and who met Caen only once—by chance) was revealed after Caen's death to be a Castro District writer who, despite several coy interviews with the press, remains publicly anonymous. On Sundays, current items were set aside in favor of "Mr. San Francisco's"〔 reflections on his unconditional love for his adopted city, musing on (for example): A collection of essays, ''Baghdad-by-the-Bay'' (a term he'd coined to reflect San Francisco's exotic multiculturalism) was published in 1949, and ''Don't Call It Frisco''—after a local judge's 1918 rebuke to an out-of-town petitioner ("No one refers to San Francisco by that title except people from Los Angeles")—appeared in 1953.〔San Francisco Examiner, April 3, 1918. (''Don't Call It Frisco''. ) Judge Mogan Rebukes Angeleno for Using Slang in His Petition for Divorce. Retrieved March 31, 2009.〕 ''The Cable Car and the Dragon'', a children's picture book, was published in 1972. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Herb Caen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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