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Between World War II and 1971, new editor Scott Newhall took a bold and somewhat provocative approach to news presentation.

Newhall's Chronicle included investigative reporting by such journalists as Pierre Salinger, later to play a prominent role in national politics, and Paul Avery, the staffer who pursued the trail of the self-named " Zodiac Killer " whose crimes chilled late-1960s San Francisco.

It also featured such colorful columnists as Pauline Phillips, who wrote under the name " Dear Abby ," " Count Marco " ( Marc Spinelli ), Stanton Delaplane, Terence O ' Flaherty, Lucius Beebe, Art Hoppe, Charles McCabe, and Herb Caen.