{"id":28852,"date":"2018-11-05T00:01:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T08:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=28852"},"modified":"2018-11-05T00:01:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T08:01:39","slug":"scott-newhall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/scott-newhall\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Newhall — Herb Caen Reminisces and So Do I"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ruth Newhall, Scott Newhall, Barbara Falconer Newhall and her new husband Jon Newhall. Photo by Jerry Telfer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

An item in yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle reminded me that I had a wonderful father-in-law — Scott Newhall.<\/p>\n

Scott was fun to be with, and apparently he was also a fun guy to work with. That according to a San Francisco Chronicle column republished yesterday and originally published on November 2, 1992. The author was Herb Caen, San Francisco’s all-time favorite columnist.<\/p>\n

Herb describes Scott as “my oldest friend on The Chronicle, my editor for 13 years, a man with . . . a sense that the mad world of journalism could be madly entertaining.”<\/p>\n

Herb goes on to say that in 1952, when Scott took on the job as the paper’s editor, Scott gave the Chronicle “a jolt in every joint. He was not afraid of being silly — “Cupcakes in The Sky” was the Page One headline on a series about airline hostesses — nor was he afraid of being a crusader: thanks to him, The Chronicle was the first major U.S. newspaper<\/a> to oppose the war in Vietnam.”<\/p>\n

Scott Newhall’s years, says Herb, “were much too short and went too fast, but he made them unforgettable.”<\/p>\n

So true. We miss you, Scott.<\/p>\n

More family stories at “Would My Husband Like to Add My Name to His?”<\/a>\u00a0 Also, “Something Old — Ten Ideas, Old and New, From a Mother of the Bride.”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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San Francisco columnist Herb Caen wrote that Chronicle editor Scott Newhall\u00a0believed “the mad world of journalism could be madly entertaining.” Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[2125,2126,2074,518,2127,1632],"class_list":["post-28852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-changing-family","tag-columnists","tag-herb-caen","tag-jon-newhall","tag-scott-newhall","tag-the-san-francisco-chronicle","tag-weddings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}