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Rare Books
The Pulitzer prize : the inside story of America's most prestigious award
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Rare Books
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Approx. 10 items: original, Columbia Library Columns, 5/1957, with list of Pulitzer Prize winners; exchange of letters on LAT's John Birch Society series (1961), from John Hohenberg of the Pulitzer Prize Advisory Board, and response from the office of Norman Chandler; approx. 15-pp. stapled stack, "A complete record of Pulitzer Prize winners, 1917 - 1991"; LAT Fact Sheet, 4/18/1995, "Los Angeles Times Pulitzer Prizes"; related items.
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Manuscripts
Approx. 15 items: 35-pp. printout off Lexis-Nexis, material from US Supreme Court and California Supreme Court; 3-pp. descriptions of "Awards of the Pulitzer Prizes and Traveling Scholarships"; collection of LAT stories on the lead-up to the "Contempt Trial"; collection of LAT articles related to LAT receiving a Pulitzer Prize in 1942, including the headlines "Tribute Paid 'Times' by American Press...great newspapers, wire associations and men in public life send congratulatory messages" (5/7/1942) and "Prize emblem sent to 'Times' "; teletype printout, 5/4/1942, reading in part, that LAT had earlier "instituted litigation which produced a Supreme Court opinion last December upholding the right of newspapers to publish criticism of judicial opinion, even in cases still pending, unless the comment would cause 'extremely serious' evil"; The "Contempt Case" began in 1938, and lasted nearly four years.
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Manuscripts
9 items: Management Bulletin, 5/3/1976, announces Phil Kerby's being awarded a Pulitzer Prize for distinguished editorial writing; LAT article copy, 5/4/1976, "Times editorial writer awarded Pulitzer Prize"; LAT article copy, 5/4/1976, "Kerby's Pulitzer caps a career to be prized"; dupes of previous stories; tear sheet and copy, Among Ourselves, 6/1976, "Phil Kerby's Pulitzer - coveted award caps 45-year news career"; sturdy folder containing 8 editorials by Kerby from LAT during 1975 (for which he won Prize), with an introduction by Otis Chandler; flyer from same time frame, "Phil Kerby worries about freedom. Everybody's."
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Manuscripts
3 items: letter copy, 4/14/1982, from Otis Chandler to Dan Fisher related to Pulitzer selections of 1978; letter copy, 4/19/1982, from Martin Bernheimer to William Thomas, Editor of The Times, related to receiving the Prize and, as Bernheimer writes, being "touched, delighted, flattered and, yes, embarrassed" by the way LAT made a big event of it; article copy, Among Ourselves, 5/1982, "Martin Bernheimer wins Pulitzer."
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Manuscripts
1 item: 5-pp. printout from Lexis-Nexis of LAT article of 4/10/1991, "Times reporter Shaw wins Pulitzer Prize for Criticism..."
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Manuscripts
2 items: LAT article reprinted from Lexis-Nexis, 5-pp., "Times Jim Murray wins Pulitzer for commentary," 4/13/1990; tear sheet from Among Ourselves, 4/1990, "Jim Murray wins Pulitzer Prize."
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