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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Approx. 15 items: brief, Editor & Publisher, 6/6/1970, "L.A. Times adds tab devoted to books"; form letter from Digby Diehl, 3/1977, with 5-pp. "Reviewer's Guide" for submissions to LAT Book Review;LAT article,12/11/1985, by David Shaw, "Reviewing Books-it's haphazard" (2 other articles in Shaw series on book review sections, one on NYT, the other on Wash. Post; sampling of Pg. 1 of LAT Book Review; related articles.
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Approx. 30 items: memos, letters, notes, and other material related to Book Review Section. Includes example issues of Newsday "Books," Washington Post "Book World" and Philadelphia Inquirer "Books / Leisure" sections from 1982-83. Includes some memos from Jack Miles, Book Review Editor, to other LAT personnel.
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Approx. 35 items: memos, letters, notes, and other material related to Book Review Section. Includes: many pieces of correspondence between B.R. Editor Art Seidenbaum and others ; two "specimen" sections of Washington Post Book World from 1977 - 1978.
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Thirty-one items comprising fifty-nine pages pertaining to the Book Review section, containing reports, statistics, letters, memos, clippings, a May 24, 1981 copy of the Los Angeles Times Book Review section, and an April 26, 1981 copy of the Herald Examiner Book section.
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Approx. 15 items. Subjects include: letter to Otis Chandler from California Savings and Loan League exec. VP.; investors' forum; content of Financial pages (memo to Bob Nichols from Williams); reorganization of Financial; okay from Williams to Frank McCulloch to pick up a financial wire service from AP;
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4 items. Multi-page report, with many illustrations, titled "We Can Protect Against the Blast and Fire of 100-Megaton Bombs!" Letter to Williams on Civil Defense (report and letter both by Carl E. Hendel, Univ. of California. Also, Williams reply to Hendel and a letter from U.S. Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, praising LAT civil defense special section.
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