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Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
5 items: 24-pp. speech manuscript, undated, pp. 1 headed with "Boswell - ANPA" [American Newspaper Publishers Association]; 3 versions of speech manuscript headed "Communications - a two-way street" (also "Boswell - ANPA), dated 5/2/1984 (one copy has "slide changes marked"); 4-pp. speech manuscript, 7/12/1984, "Script for Royal Opera of Covent Garden Luncheon."
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3 items: one LAT questionnaire, headed "SECRET BALLOT - Georgia Presidential Primary - March 8, 1988"; 15-pp. booklet, titled "The Los Angeles Times - CNN Poll - Republican Delegate Survey - Republican Presidential Nominating Convention - New Orleans, Louisiana - August 15th to 18th, 1988, Methodology"; 16-pp. booklet, titled "The Los Angeles Times - CNN Poll - Democratic Delegate Survey - Democratic Presidential Nominating Convention - Atlanta, Georgia - July 18 to 21st, 1988, Methodology."
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Approx. 25 items: memos on various subjects, from time frame 1965 - 1980. Included: 12-pp. memorandum prepared by Richard Rhodes after interviewing LAT staffer Stuart Loory, who was arrested during the Democratic National Convention of summer 1968 as he was covering an anti-war protest led by activist Dick Gregory ; packet of material headed "Loory's story on President's State of the World message of 2/26/1971 ; etc.
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40+ items: letters, memos, program information, lists, and other materials related to the 104th Annual ANPA Convention in Los Angeles, April 23 - 25, 1990. Split into two folders.
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Manuscripts
40+ items: letters, memos, program information, lists, and other materials related to the 104th Annual ANPA Convention in Los Angeles, April 23 - 25, 1990. Split into two folders.
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2 items: 19-pp. typed and annotated transcript of "Tape # 1 - James Bassett/Norman Chandler, Transcribed 12/4/1972" and photocopy of the annotated transcript. Subjects include: Nick Williams becomes Editor (pp. 2) ; Norman Chandler's memories of Harrison Gray Otis (pp.4 - 6) ; Norman Chandler meets Dorothy Buffum at Stanford, they married in 1922, Norman Chandler did not graduate - "I wasn't enthusiastic about college" ; Dorothy Buffum Chandler comments that in the 1920s, Los Angeles Times did not mean as much to her and Norman Chandler as it did later, it was just a job (pp. 12) ; In the early 1940s, Norman Chandler began to be motivated to run the paper (Harry Chandler died in 1944, pp. 14) ; the recall of Mayor Frank Shaw, "he was a bad egg and we went overboard in supporting him...which I think was a mistake" (14 - 15) ; politics - Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan (pp. 16) ; Otis Chandler named publisher (pp. 17) ; Bassett asks Dorothy Buffum Chandler if, in the late 1950s, she felt Los Angeles Times needed to "shift more to the middle of the road? - she answered "Very much so."
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