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Bowron, Albine
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Bowron, Fletcher - Correspondence
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7 items: letter, 9/7/1938, "Bowron for Mayor" flyer, to "Members of the Police and Fire Departments, City of Los Angeles" ; copy of "Recall Petition" aimed at Bowron (1939), mentioning "his demoralizing influence on all who come in contact with him" - the origin of this recall is not recorded ; booklet, "Mayor's Message (with) 1946 - 47 Proposed Budget, City of Los Angeles, Honorable Fletcher Bowron, Mayor" ; 7-pp. transcript of "Broadcast by Mayor Fletcher Bowron -- Station KFI" - 1/6/1952 ; 7-pp. transcript of "Broadcast (by Bowron)" - 6/15/1952 ; letter, 12/20/1956, from Fletcher Bowron to Kyle Palmer, LAT Political Editor, thanking him for the fact that LAT had given him "fair treatment... as a candidate for election as Judge of the Superior Court," since, but this is not mentioned, LAT had often attacked him in the past ; 6-pp. list of "Signers of the nominating petition for the re-election of...Bowron, filed February 5 (1942, 1944?)," followed by alphabetical list of names.
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Employees - Tennyson, Al -- Autobiography
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2 items: cover letter with autobiography, from Tennyson to Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, 12/14/1983; 83-pp. manuscript (plus 14-pp. Addendum), "An expose' of newspapering -- really a homespun autobiography..." titled, The Prevailing Spirit, by A. Tennyson.
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Bowron, Fletcher - Clippings
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50+ items: LAT news stories and editorials on Fletcher Bowron and his service to L.A. as mayor, and later as judge, including everything from feuds with LAT to endorsements of him by LAT and back to feuding. Notable among these items is one letter, 1974, from Albine Bowron, the mayor's widow, to James Bassett, a high-ranking LAT editor, and another, 1974, from Mayor Tom Bradley (L.A.) to retired Chief Justice Earl Warren.
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Job descriptions
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"Job descriptions for the Los Angeles Times positions of Historian and Archivist. Personnel papers for LA Times archivists Lois Markwith and Craig St. Clair removed 11/19/12 in accordance with personnel privacy policies - CMD. "
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Chandler, Otis - Tape # 5
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1 item: 15-pp. transcript of "Fifth taping with Otis Chandler," 8/5/1975. Subjects include: production, circulation, advertising issues (pp. 1 - 2) ; innovations in electronic transmission processes (pp. 4) ; automation and computerization (pp. 5) ; "sending the paper out of town" and circulation areas within California - S. Francisco, Fresno, Modesto, etc. (pp. 6 - 7) ; Los Angeles Times and continuing antipathy to labor in 1970s ; Otis Chandler relationships with various politicians and his thought about them (pp. 11 - 12) ; Otis Chandler thoughts on Sam Yorty, "a small-town buffoon, right out of the movies" (pp. 14).
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Garland, William May
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6 items: two copies of transcript headed "Story of the origin of the Xth Olympiad held in Los Angeles, California, in 1932, as written by William May Garland, one is 33 pp., the other ends with pp. 28, ; letter, 6/6/1983, to Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, from Lee Whitney, Editor of You (mag) ; LAT sports tear sheets for 12/10/1983, and misc. copies of same.
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