Herb Caen
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Herbert Eugene Caen was 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
Caen in 1994
Caen playing the drums at the 1993 celebration of The Paris Review's 40th anniversary
"Mr. San Francisco" in his Chronicle office in the early 1990s
One of Caen's four "Loyal Royals" on display at the Chronicle offices
Edsel Ford Fong
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Edsel Ford Fung was an American restaurant server from San Francisco, California. He was called the "world's rudest, worst, most insulting waiter" and worked at the Sam Wo Chinese restaurant.
Herb Caen
…Vatican's spokesman on the evils of rock 'n roll, Cardinal Rapsong. 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 his death in 1984: SOME WOE around Sam Wo, the…
Edsel Ford Fong food stand at Oracle Park