Manuscripts

Departments - Editorial - Book Review Section

Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1970 - 1990
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Special Sections

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items: memos, reports, tear sheets, etc. related to LAT Special Sections. Includes: 8-pp. report from Bob Rawitch to Shelby Coffey and Bill Thomas, subject "Special Sections Study" (7/10/1988) ; 6-pp. memo, "Book Review Special Section," 11/12/1970, from Digby Diehl ; complete 1964 advertising supplement, "Desert World" ; complete 1963 section, "South Coast World ; more.

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Departments - Editorial - You Section

Manuscripts

6 items. Materials include: two promo/marketing packets (in red folders) announcing "You," a new tabloid-sized section to be inside LAT every Tuesday; LAT clip, 9/19/1976, "New weekly magazine to appear in Times Oct. 5," describes YOU (tab.) as being designed to provide readers with information on "where to find bargains, how to manage personal finances, how to find interesting...places to go," etc.; clip from Advertising Age, 10/4/1976, on LAT's new YOU; copy of article from New West, 9/27/1976, "YOU can always get what you want"; clip, Advertising Age, 9/6/1976, mentioning YOU.

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Departments - Editorial - Real Estate Section

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items. Materials include: LAT clip, 9/10/1989, to give example of "Home Price Guide" feature; LAT clip, 2/26/1989, "Expanded section, new editor (Dick Barnes) to debut"; packet (clipped) of several items related to the "doodles" President Franklin Roosevelt did during his presidency that decades later were used as a "guide" to the design of a Naval Medical Center in Maryland (includes 4 glossy photos of Roosevelt), received from Dick Turpin of Real Estate Section in 1975; several LAT articles on re-vamp of Real Estate section, 1989-1990; 10-pp. booklet, (LAT 23rd) Annual Survey of Residential Builders in Southern California (1994). copy of 1st Real Estate Section (Pt. 2, Pg. 1), 6/23/1901, "House and Lot - The Times Weekly Review of Real Estate and Building."

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Departments - Editorial - Lifestyle Section

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items. Materials include: copied examples of LAT "Society" page, 1910 - 1940 (at least one prior to 1900); 1-pp. chronology which opens, "Here's a history of The Times "features" sections..."; clip, Among Ourselves, 10/1976, YOU debuts in The Times; 6-pp. typed, [by Nick B. Williams? - 1961] analysis of progress of "Family" section; 3-pp. memo, Dick Dunkel to Nick Williams, 10/13/1961, subject "Family Section Fashions; clip from Los Angeles magazine, ?/1966, "The new girls of Section IV," on Maggie Bellows and Joyce Haber taking on re-vamp of 'Section IV'"; copy of brief, 6/4/1994, Editor & Publisher, "(LAT) improves its lifestyle section"; analysis of LAT "women's pages" over the decades from various sources, including "25 Years of women's pages in L.A.," by academic Dorothy Stotsenberg (UCLA); other related memos.

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Departments - Editorial - Food Section

Manuscripts

6 items. Material includes: note on blue card, "Cookbooks in file cabinet in reception room"; Pg. 1 of Food Section, 8/29/1963, lead story headline, "Labor Day work savers"; 2-pp. news release, "Times introduces redesigned food section"; copy, Among Ourselves, 10/1931, of (first page only) article, "New demonstration kitchen for cooking class," note attached, "see...AO for rest of article"; Pg. 1, LAT Food Section, 4/5/1962, copies, Pg. 1, Pt. 1 announcement and Pg. 1 of "FOOO for the Family" section, 4/5/1962.

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Departments - Editorial - Calendar Section

Manuscripts

5 items. Materials include: LAT memo (8/22/1960) from Edw. Reap, Promotion, to James Toland, Sunday Editorial, on the soon to be published "first issue of the new entertainment tabloid CALENDAR..."; copy of article from Among Ourselves, 10/1966, "Calendar has new look, new columnist"; tear sheet of "Calendar - Letters" for 6/28/1987, featuring a selection of letters critical of the "Calendar" section; 3-pp. report headed "Sunday Calendar Redesign," 7/1994; article copied from Lifestyle Media-Relations Reporter, 9/5/1994, "Los Angeles Times Calendar Eds: Home Entertainment, Family Fun," mentions staffers Sherry Stern, Susan Freudenheim, Anne Hurley and John Lindsay.

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