Lucius (Morris) Beebe - Relationships, Quotes

Journalist and writer, born in Wakefield, Massachusetts, USA. He studied at Harvard University (1927), and then worked as a journalist, notably for the New York Herald Tribune (1929–50), chronicling Manhattan's high society in rococo prose in the syndicated column ‘This New York’. Also an authority on railroads and the West, his books include High Iron (1938), Legends of the Comstock Lode (1950), San Francisco's Golden Era (1960), and The Overland Limited (1963). He moved to San Francisco and began the column ‘This Wild West’ for the Chronicle in 1960.

Lucius Morris Beebe (December 9, 1902 – February 4, 1966), was an author, photographer, railroad historian, journalist, and syndicated columnist.

Born in Wakefield, Massachusetts, he worked as a journalist for the New York Herald Tribune and the San Francisco Examiner and was a contributing writer to many magazines such as Gourmet, The New Yorker, and Town and Country.

Beebe died from a heart attack at the age of 64.

Relationships

Beebe's personal life was primarily marked by his long relationship with Clegg, which lasted from 1940 until Beebe's death. In Beebe's earlier years, however, he was a companion of the society photographer Jerome Zerbe. In fact, Beebe mentioned Zerbe so often in his columns that wags maintained that Beebe's descriptions of society gatherings should have always ended with "And Jerome Zerbe never looked lovelier."

Quotes

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

New York...

Once Beebe came upon a noted gastronome glaring with horror at a row of orchids on his table.