Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
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. 25 items. Letters and memos. Subjects and correspondents include: (8/16) letter to Howard Hays, Editor, Riverside Press-Enterprise, attached to ASNE forms for William Thomas' membership, and praising Hays for his work as Editor; (8/13) reply to a reader who praised cartoonist Conrad (the majority who wrote in criticized him) ; (8/13) letter to Stuart Loory on "theme issues" of West mag., which NBW does not like; (8/4) 2-pp. letter to Frank Tremaine, VP, United Press International, reacting negatively to notice of a 10% price increase to LAT for the UPI service; (8/4) letter to J. Edw. Murray of Detroit Free Press, in which NBW says that positive reaction to "Doonesbury" is word-of-mouth, negative is in letters; etc.
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Approx. 60 items. Subjects include:newsprint reclamation; more "Conrad serves a useful purpose" letters; outcome and comments on Peggy Harford lawsuit against LAT (5/8/1970); explanation to reader of what a Conrad cartoon meant, which showed Nixon baring his stomach (5/7/1970); letters responding to Westridge (all-girl school in Pasadena) students on topic of pollution; letter telling a Little League official from SF Valley that Paul Conrad was a Little League official in Palos Verdes; (5/6/1970) "West and Home" [magazines] are over budget" - followed by details; (5/5/1970) letter to John Veneman, HEW Undersecretary; letter to Chester Gould, "Dick Tracy" cartoonist, after LAT canceled the strip; letter to Herbert Brucker of Stanford on proposed Ethics Committee for American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE), 5/4/1970.
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Approx. 80 items. Letters and memos. Response to Sam Chandler (4/21/1970) on working to eradicate prejudices; Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick; (4/15/1970) 2-pp. letter to reader Wallace Williams on the meaning of "freedom of the press"; "thank you" note to Gen. William Peers of the Pentagon after he joined the LAT Editorial Board for "off-the-record" talks; letter to Walter Annenberg, Ambassador to Great Britain; (4/9/1970) 4-pp. letter to columnist Morrie Ryskind on Police Chief Ed Davis--LAT--Ryskind incident; letter to Bishop Gerald Kennedy, United Methodist Church -- L.A. Area; response (4/8/1970) to M.D. Shelstad, who canceled subscription. and accused LAT of trying to "bust our President"; more explanation of reason LAT canceled "Li'l Abner"; more qualified defense of editorial cartoonist Paul Conrad; etc.
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Approx. 90 items. Letters and memos. Subjects include: Resthaven Psychiatric Hospital; letter to Ken Kantor, Press Editor, NBC (11/22/1970); invitation to Sen. Alan Cranston to "shoot the breeze" with Editorial Board (11/25/1970); the purchase of Tom Curtis editorial cartoons; Suburban section expansion and mast-heads (11/24); letter to Judge William Gray, U.S. District Court (Cent. Calif.); 2-pp. letter to D.J. Bergeron, Pres. of Jet-Lube, on the topic of "The Times Comic Page"; (11/20) letter to Ted Weegar about suspicion that KIBS-radio in Bishop, CA, is reading "Page 2" verbatim; letters congratulating NBW on receipt of the USC Journalism Award; letters on various comics, including "Gasoline Alley" ; (11/17) brief letter to George Gallup of Gallup Poll; more "Paul Conrad serves a useful purpose" letters; letter defending the cancellation of "Dick Tracy" and Daily Bible Verses; letter to Ed Reap saying "Jack Smith's book is one hell of a promotion (for LAT)"; the cartoon "Love Is" being issued as a book; (11/13) discussion of NY Times Editorial Pages and ideas for LAT version--including frequent use of "literate" letters "that blast us"; on San Gabriel Zone and new Southeast Zone; (11/9) changes to Page 1 of View; West's Arizona issue; seminars on the future of print media; etc.
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Approx. 75 items. Letters and memos. Subjects include: some brief letters to persons W. had met socially; note to Bill Thomas on the "recurrent rumor" that some LAPD officers were purchasing and carrying on duty "machine guns and automatic rifles"; letter to A.S. "Doc" Young, Editor of L.A. Sentinel, trading thoughts on the role of newspapers and editors; memo to Otis Chandler on how "close to home" the L.A. Times Syndicate should sell the Times-Post newsservice, for example--Fresno? San Diego??; increasing the number of "articles of a current sociological nature"; W. suggests to Almena Lomax (African-American journalist) that she collect her writings into a book and also contacts Edward Kuhn, Exec. VP of New American Library, that it should be considered for publication, and puts Lomax in touch with Kuhn; long (4+ pp.) memo to Frank Haven on "extensive reorientation of the thinking and the methods of many of our reporters..." (8/16/1968); "new directions" memo to Otis C. (8/16/1968); letter to Editor of San Gabriel Valley Daily Tribune-- "I...go along with the idea of newspapers not attacking each other [without] direst necessity" (8/16/1968); still another answer to the charge that LAT is "completely leftish"--W. writes of his own political stance, "I consider myself a political moderate, a little right of center, a Republican since Truman..."; more on Conrad as a great cartoonist that W. does not always agree with;
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Approx. 95 items. Subjects include: further responses to "liberal columnists" charge by readers; partial editorial guest list for dinner in honor of Otis C.'s Tenth Anniversary as Publisher, including Jack Smith, Bill Thomas, Tony Day, NBW and others; invitation to Gen. William Peers to lunch with LAT Editorial Board for "off-the-record" talk; response to alarm of fans of "Li'l Abner" comic strip after cancellation--ditto "Dick Tracy", including reader who believed LAT was canceling certain comics because of conservative viewpoints ; the My Lai incident (Vietnam War); 3-pp. on "interpretive reporting" (3/20/1970); letter to John Chafee, Sec. of Navy; assuring readers that LAT included a spectrum of political thought; letter to George Mair of KNX on unpaid ads; letter (3/19/1970) to Chester Gould, cartoonist of "Dick Tracy"; the "Paul Conrad serves a useful purpose" (form) letter to Col. C.W. Hoffman of Santa Barbara who had canceled LAT subscription; "dope traffic" in USA and So. Cal. (3/10/1970); 3-pp. response on LAT-Morrie Ryskind-Black Panthers issue; letter (3/5/1970) to Richard Baker of Columbia Journalism Review, challenging elements of a CJR article on the Tate Case (Manson murders) and My Lai (Vietnam) mentioning LAT; letter to cartoonist Al Capp explaining that LAT "had no ulterior reasons...for dropping 'Lil Abner' beyond (improving readership)"; letter (3/2/1970) to Dorothy Bowen, Public Relations, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, on info for Calendar listings; etc.
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