U.S. senator became owner of floundering San Francisco Examiner newspaper in 1880 as payment for gambling debt.

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Fleming once told a San Francisco Examiner columnist that James Bond always had lunch there, sitting in a corner table to watch the pretty girls.

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By nineteen, he was city editor for the Sacramento Union and, a couple of years later, a political writer for the San Francisco Examiner.

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But White Rock soda passionately refutes that claim and points to their 1915 advertisement in the San Francisco Examiner as the earliest known depiction of the jolly Santa.

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According to a San Francisco Examiner article last month, its volunteer staff includes former NSA official Ira Winkler and Suzanne Gorman, former security chief for the New York Stock Exchange.

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Old man Hearst's first paper and lifelong love, the San Francisco Examiner, is now a pitiful phantom, restricted to an afternoon publish (and thus a horrible circulation) by a binding agreement with the San Francisco Chronicle.

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Apple is ready to introduce an old design by Steve Jobs as the next iPhone, perhaps called iPhone 5S, according to the San Francisco Examiner, reporting on comments Apple government liaison Michael Foulkes made to San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon.

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