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Correspondence, Speeches, Articles, Format change responses (2 of 2)
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Correspondence, Speeches, Articles, Format change responses (1 of 2)
Manuscripts
Approx. 45 items, including: correspondence with Robert Healy, Boston Globe, and Fred Friendly, Ford Foundation ; several Thomas speech transcripts, including one to Cosmopolitan Club (Santa Barbara) on 3/20/1975 ; letters, cards and notes criticizing various aspects of LAT ; letter of congratulations (1971) to Thomas from Police Chief Ed Davis on the occasion of Thomas' becoming Editor of LAT ; 4-pp. memo from Frank Haven to Nick Williams (1965) giving his thoughts on the new "City" Editor, William Thomas - plus thumbnail evaluations of LAT staffers Jack Smith, Chuck Hillinger, Harry Bernstein, etc. (Note: Thomas became City Editor just a few weeks before the Watts riots of August, 1965). Split into two folders.
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Outgoing Correspondence (2 of 2)
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Approx. 300 items: correspondence from Thomas on a wide range of issues confronting a newspaper's top editor. Also transcripts of telegrams, presentation transcripts, agenda for meetings, lists of LAT Editorial Awards, more. Split into two folders.
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Outgoing Correspondence (1 of 2)
Manuscripts
Approx. 300 items: correspondence from Thomas on a wide range of issues confronting a newspaper's top editor. Also transcripts of telegrams, presentation transcripts, agenda for meetings, lists of LAT Editorial Awards, more. Split into two folders.
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Miscellaneous Correspondence A - H
Manuscripts
Approx. 75 items. Includes: note and attached collection of jokes from Milton Berle ; correspondence with Querencia Productions ; many letters criticizing LAT, mostly on political grounds ; some letters praising LAT's coverage of the news ; correspondence (1983) in which Hustler publisher Larry Flynt offers a free subscription of his porn magazine to Thomas, who declines ;across-the-board collection of letters ranging from thoughtful and eloquent to angry and extreme.
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Miscellaneous Correspondence H - W
Manuscripts
Approx. 75 items. Includes: many letters criticizing LAT, mostly on political grounds ; some letters praising LAT's coverage of the news ; across-the-board collection of letters ranging from thoughtful and eloquent to angry and extreme.
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Change in format
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7 examples of complaints about changes in the LAT format, 10/1968, here involving the comics and the opinion pages.
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