Manuscripts
Correspondence & Miscellaneous
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous
Manuscripts
Approximately 40 items. Several letters were related to a radio program, "Teen-Age Book Parade," with which Bassett was connected during the period when he was Book Review Editor of the L.A. Times. There is in the folder at least one book review Bassett wrote for broadcast purposes for "Teen-Age Book Parade." There is one letter from U.S. Rep. Sam Yorty.
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous
Manuscripts
Approximately 80 items. A number of pieces of correspondence show that Bassett continued his book reviewing for Broadcast Music Inc. Several items show that persons unacquainted, or only slightly acquainted with Bassett sought advice or job referrals from him. There are copies of letters addressed to Sen. Thomas Kuchel and Vice Pres. Nixon. Correspondence also shows that B. kept in touch with Navy friends and associates. On the occasion of a 1957 promotion, B. received congratulatory letters from public relations and business firms, including AT&SF Railroad and Ice Capades Intl., and media outlets including United Press Associations and the San Diego Union, and one Superior Court Judge, Stanley Mosk, and Caspar Weinberger (Calif. Assembly), etc. The remainder are various private and business communications. William P. Rogers letter removed from Autograph File and returned to Bassett files.
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous - Palmer, Kyle
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3 items: 3-pp. letter, 5/26/1954, Bassett to Palmer, reporting on events in Washington, DC - mentioning "McCarthy...circus," Nixon (as Vice President) and others ; 2-pp. letter, 7/21/1954, headed "Personal & Confidential," and providing Palmer with Bassett's view from Washington, DC ; 3-pp. letter, "Kyle" to "Jim," with more political news.
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous
Manuscripts
Approximately 50 items. Contains one page biographical sheet on Bassett, letters, memos, press releases, a letter informing B. that he had been elected to Kappa Tau Alpha [the national fraternity honoring scholarship in journalism], various other correspondence, both personal and business in nature. Also in the folder are an article from Newsweek titled, "Candidate Nixon's Insiders," and a copy of a policy for Bassett from Prudential Insurance.
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous - Editorial cartoons
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8 items: letter, 9/19/1967, to Bassett from Walter Annenberg (publisher, ambassador) praising editorial cartoonist Paul Conrad ; 4/29/1969, Bassett to Douglas T. Moore, responding to complaint about a specific Conrad cartoon ; letter, 5/17/1969, to Bassett from Douglas T. Moore, critical of Conrad and LAT and attached handwritten letter, 4/21/1969, from Moore to Franklin Murphy (Chair, TM Board) ; letter, 6/2/1970, from Bassett to Allen Mansfield (Pacific Western Securities), responding to Mansfield's criticism of Conrad cartoons and attached letter from Mansfield to Frank Haven, Managing Editor, LAT, attached are two Conrad cartoons about Nixon.
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous
Manuscripts
Approximately 30 items. Includes typed and handwritten correspondence, some business-related, some personal. Some letters and telegrams related to the Republican National Convention in Chicago in 1952. Letters from Bassett to the editors of the S.F. Chronicle and Sacramento Bee. Many congratulatory letters from around the country regarding Bassett's writing for the Times. Estes Kefauver letter removed from Autograph File and returned to Bassett files.
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