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Departments - Editorial - Los Angeles Times Magazine
Manuscripts
4 items: article copy, Buzz, 3/1995, "Crossing the Line," criticizes LAT ; article copy, Buzz, 4/1995, "Lindsay hop," critical specifically of LAT Magazine Editorial Director John Lindsay (Note: one of the major reasons for the existence of Buzz seemed to be to pester LAT) ; brief article copy, Los Angeles (mag), 1/1987, "16 Editors in search of a Magazine" ; article copy, Writer's Digest, (ca. 1985), "Breaking new ground" (on LAT Mag).
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Politics - Los Angeles County
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4 items: clip, 1932 LAT article, "(Eugene) Biscailuz swamps five opponents" ; copy LAT editorial, 7/17/1934, "Beauties of the recall" ; LAT letter-to-editor clip, "A fine series of articles" ; LAT article clip, 12/3/1972, "Committee of 25--L.A.'s super government?"
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Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1955 - John L. Gaunt
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7 items: two photocopies (in two sizes) of the certificate for John Gaunt's Pulitzer Prize for News Photography; three LAT article copies--4/4/, 5/3, 5/10/1955--on various prizes Gaunt won for "Tragedy in the Surf (a.k.a. "Tragedy in the Sea"); two copies, Among Ourselves article, 6/1955, "Gaunt wins third Pulitzer for Times";
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Los Angeles - History - 1848 - 1870
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7 items: 2-pp. from unknown source, first page headed, "Section 12 - Violence in the South" (on a legendary gunfight in 1865 Los Angeles" ; LAT columns, news stories and extraneous material from other sources on the first two decades of California as US territory; 10-pp. copied from American Heritage, 8/1958, "Baghdad by the freeway," by Remi Nadeau.
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Los Angeles - City Government
Manuscripts
Approx. 12 items: LAT article copy, 6/10/1931, "Fifth official city flag proposed" ; LAT editorial, 9/14/1964, "Time for a charter change?" ; LAT edit., 10/25/1966, "Reforming Los Angeles' City Charter" ; LAT edit., 11/21/1969, "Charter reform debate" ; LAT edit., 2/23/1970, "Hollywood faces...harsh facts" ; a 1973 exchange of letters betw. Samuel Leask, ex-City Administrative Officer and James Bassett of LAT ; article copy, Los Angeles (mag), 12/1980, "His dishonor, the Mayor" (on A.C. Harper, L.A. mayor 1906 - 1909) ; LAT tear sheet, articles on new City Council District (1st), 1/18/1987 ; LAT article tear sheet, list & brief bio sketch of L.A. mayors, 1850 to 1988, 9/6/1988 ; article copy, Times Mirror (mag), Summer 1989, "A tale of two cities" (L.A. and N.Y.).
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Miracle Mile, Los Angeles
Manuscripts
4 items on "The Miracle Mile" : transcript of article from National Real Estate Journal, 5/1938, "Barley fields 15 years ago -- now a shopping center of incredible value" ; transcript of article from Freehold - the Magazine of Real Estate, 3/15/1940, "Back door parking for shoppers in Los Angeles" ; transcript of article from Men's Wear, 9/8/1944, "Miracle Mile" ; LAT clip, "1929 Art Deco landmark in tug of war..." 10/21/1987.
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