Manuscripts

Management Staff - Boyce, H.H

Description: 8 sheets of legal-size paper with clippings pasted on them. Clippings all seem to be from LAT, though only one actually has logo included. Subjects include: "a new daily paper, called the Tribune"; H.H. Boyce files a libel suit against LAT; LAT "sets a trap" and the Tribune falls for the hoax; testimony from the trial, etc.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1886 - 1889
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Management Staff

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items: a selection of Management Bulletins, 1973 - 1991; LAT clip, "Schlosberg named President of The Times," various Employee bulletins, press releases and LAT clippings on high-level promotions and transfers in LAT; lists of key personnel; "Executives of the Los Angeles Times" (7/29/1994).

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View Section

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items: notes, letters, memos, reports and clips related to LAT View Section. Includes: copy of feature story from Chicago Journalism Review by Alan Parachini, "Tribune orders reporters to reveal sources in libel case" ; clips of several wedding announcements as they appeared in View.

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Management Staff - The Phalanx

Manuscripts

2 items: 4 sheets, with two elements--listing personnel of "The Times Phalanx-the organization as it stood in November, 1908," with Harrison Gray Otis, Harry Chandler, Marian Otis Chandler, etc., and three pages copied from the TM Co.'s 19th Annual Report, 1904 - 05; summaries, 7-pp. item titled "Summaries of key Times people for Dick Schlosberg," (printed 9/7/1988), giving brief [and glowing] biographies of LAT publishers up to Otis Chandler, plus editors, marketing execs., etc.

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Yorty, Sam - 1968

Manuscripts

Approx. 75 items. Transcripts of press conferences and other public gatherings, news summaries from Yorty's office, news clippings, letters. Subjects include: Yorty refers to Otis Chandler and L.A.'s District Attorney as "practically in a conspiracy to get (me)" - Radio-TV Reports, 10/15/1968; Yorty's forays into international affairs; Yorty says he may sue LAT over an editorial cartoon; much more of the same in the Yorty-LAT face off; several letters from Yorty to LAT foreign correspondent William Tuohy; Yorty files a $2 million libel suit against LAT (12/1968); copy of the libel suit Yorty filed with County Superior Court; Yorty accuses LAT of protecting "friends" and "harpooning" their "enemies"; Yorty sponsors creation of his own editorial cartoons criticizing Otis Chandler & LAT; etc.

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Buildings - Second - Bombing - Clippings

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items. Articles about the bombing and the resulting trial, photocopied or clipped from: LAT; Oakland Tribune; The Pacific Printer; L.A. Examiner. Also LAT prepared chronologies included.

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Rogers, Will

Manuscripts

1 item: LAT editorial copy, 11/4/1936, "Will Rogers," a tribune to the humorist who had been killed in a plane crash in Alaska in 1935.

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Management Staff - Boyce, H.H

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