Lucius Beebe
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Lucius Beebe (1902-1966) was born into a wealthy family in Massachusetts, was expelled from Yale, but graduated from Harvard. In 1933, in the midst of the Depression, he began a newspaper column called “This New York” which chronicled the doings of high and café society. A 1939 Life Magazine cover described him as “Mr. New York.”
He was also very interested in railroads and the West, which led him to move to Nevada in 1950 and also to a new column for the San Francisco Chronicle called “This Wild West.” A self-styled snob, gossip, dandy, and hedonist, Beebe remarked that, “All I want is the best of everything.” He did seem to be enjoying himself, and his wit and non-conformist attitudes were widely appreciated even in the high period of American conformism, the 1950s.
