Lucius Beebe

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Lucius Beebe (r), with Charles Clegg at the office of the Territorial Enterprise newspaper, Virginia City, Nevada.)

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, Town and Country, and Playboy. Beebe re-launched Nevada's first newspaper, the Territorial Enterprise in 1952. He wrote well over 30 books, many of the topics were on railroading, one of his primary interests, as well he was known for his witty social commentary. Many of his railroad books were written with longtime companion, Charles Clegg. Along with Charles Clegg they owned two private cars. One of which is Georgia Northern/Central of Georgia No. 100 Gold Coast built in 1905, now at the California State Railroad Museum.

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

[edit] 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."

[edit] Quotes

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

New York... Babylon-on-the-Hudson, sinful, extravagant, full of the nervous hilarity of the doomed.

Once Beebe came upon a noted gastronome glaring with horror at a row of orchids on his table. "Throw wide the windows!" cried the gourmet. "Air the rooms! Is the bouquet of my wines to have to conflict with these stinking flowers?"

When a friend complained that if Thomas E. Dewey was elected it would set the country back 50 years, Beebe retorted "And what was wrong with 1898?"

[edit] References

• A Passion for Trains: The Railroad Photography of Richard Steinheimer with text by Jeff Brouws. 

[edit] External links

• Piper Beebe House
• http://www.csrmf.org/doc.asp?id=176
• http://www.territorial-enterprise.com/
• Lucius Beebe at the IMDB
• Lucius Beebe's Photo & Gravesite

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