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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. 50 items: memos, letters and reports related to persons, groups and organizations starting with letter "U." Persons, groups and organizations in the correspondence include: United Press International ; commemorative booklet, "UPI - the first 75 years covering the World" ; etc.
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Approx. 15 items. Several publications of IPI are in folder: 1965, 1968 Membership List(s), booklet titled "Two Years in Africa: a report on IPI's training in Africa, Constitution of IPI." Subjects of correspondence include: IPI editor asks Williams about racial problems in Times' circulation area, about number of "Negro" reporters, about mentions of race in crime stories; libel laws; Otis Chandler instructs Williams to cancel LAT membership in IPI; reporters as opposed to specialists; etc.
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Approx. 40 items. Memos and other material related to changes, goals performance plans and objectives for Editorial. Guiding this process were Otis Chandler, Nick Williams, Frank Haven, Frank McCulloch, and others. Also included is the 1/15/1961 article written by Nick Williams on the new Times format.
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Approx. 55 items: memos, letters, clippings and programs related to International Press Institute. Folder includes 63-pp. booklet, International Press Institute Membership List (1/1980).
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Approx. 25 items: memos, letters and reports related to West magazine, 1968. Notable items include: 15-pp. report, "WEST Magazine... Readership and Reader Attitudes," 4/1968 ; several long memos from Stickell to Robert D. Nelson, and/or Otis Chandler and/or Nick Williams.
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Approx. 35 items: in "Tribute to a renown...Editor, Nick B. Williams," at the time of his death, LAT columnist Jack Smith wrote that, "turned the Los Angeles Times from a biased, provincial, Republican newspaper, into one of the country's two or three best"; program booklet for "The Nick B. Williams Luncheon Party," Levy's Grill, 2/20/1959; 3-pp. transcript of speech at Women's Lawyers Club (1959), titled "Court News Policy," on the topic of a free press; selection of Williams' writings for a variety of publications--California Publisher, The Quill, California Parent -Teacher, etc. ;brief copy, Among Ourselves, 7/1948, on W's career, mentioning his fiction writing; single-page bio ; W's tear sheets, 1959 - 1971, from LAT; LAT clip, 10/28/1981, "Ex-Editor of Times receives press award": LAT Editorial, 7/2/1992, "In Memory of Nick B. Williams," which closes, "Nick Williams mark on The Times is indelible." Williams was with LAT for forty years, retiring in 1971, and after that working as a consultant for Otis Chandler.
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