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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. 30 items. Letters, memos, bios, etc. Includes: correspondence between Williams and Robert Rowen, Pres., Pasadena Art Museum; letter to Harry Rowan, Pres., RAND Corp.; coverage of education in California; "the coffee situation in Editorial (1/9/1969); letter from Rep. Edward Roybal on the "auto smog conspiracy; exchange of letters with L.G.G. Ramsey, Editor, The Connoisseur, London, England; material on Joseph Roos, Exec. Dir., Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles; correspondence with William Reason, Editor (in-house newsletter), RTD; etc.
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Approx. 60 items. B. corresponded with Joe Holt (U.S. Rep.), Herb Klein (editor, San Diego Union), Ted Rogers (Independent TV), Glenard Lipscomb (U.S. Rep), Otis Chandler (handwritten note),
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Approx. 65 items. Letters, memos, news clippings. Subjects include: exchange of letters with a Porterville, CA., physician, James Williams, Jr., who complains, "For the past year...your news characteristics of reporting have changed, leaning definitely...to the left." Williams implies that W. might be a communist dupe. W. replies, "My intentions are to see that the news is printed as factually as...possible."; exchange of letters on Editor & Publisher questionnaire, "...New Directions in Journalism"; exchange of letters with John Wayne related to the film, "The Alamo," Americanism, and other topics; the ups and downs of the Space program ; letter typical of early 1960s from Lee Wright (Canoga Park, 1964) complaining of LAT's shift from conservatism and canceling his subscription; ads taken by opponents of Vietnam war; exchange of letters with James Brady, editor of WWD, in which B. complains that Joyce Haber (LAT) has plagiarized from Women's Wear Daily, W. responds; LAT cookbook; popularity of various LAT segments, including advertising; phosphates in laundry detergent; letter from A. L. Wirin and response; etc. A. L. Wirin correspondence removed from Autograph File and returned to Williams Subject Files.
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Approx. 40 items. Subjects include: Tejon Ranch view of State water situation; correspondence with Malcolm Muir, Publisher of Atlas; correspondence with Phil Kirby, Editor of Frontier; extended correspondence with Mr. & Mrs. Richard Mannex, who sought "Truth and Morality in Journalism"; exchange with Irv White, Pres. of Motor Car Dealers Assn. of Southern California regarding inadequate coverage of the Auto Show by LAT; clippings and memos regarding Oscar Mayer obit; description, sent by MGM rep, of how a mock-up of a Los Angeles Times with be used in a motion picture; clipping and correspondence related to case in which young black man, Henry Jones, Jr., robbed teenager Rose Marie Campisi in Alabama in 1970; etc.
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Approximately 40 items. Several letters were related to a radio program, "Teen-Age Book Parade," with which Bassett was connected during the period when he was Book Review Editor of the L.A. Times. There is in the folder at least one book review Bassett wrote for broadcast purposes for "Teen-Age Book Parade." There is one letter from U.S. Rep. Sam Yorty.
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Approx. 35 items. Letters, memos, telegrams, newspaper clippings. Subjects include: "narcotics problem" campaign (letter from R. Nixon); Feather River water project; letter to Oregonian Editor Robert Notson, in which Williams writes of new Publisher Otis Chandler that he "will become a great one"; Times-sponsored charity football game & NAACP; correspondence with the Nieman Fellowship Committee; letter of appreciation from columnist Robert Novak, Washington, DC; 3-pp. letter in 1969 to Jack Nightscales (Vancouver Sun) on "the major challenge for [newspapers in] the '70s...will be to make them an essential part of their...audiences' daily lives"; series of letters between editor of the Picayune Item (Mississippi) and Otis C. and Williams about controversial story by LAT's staffer Ken Reich; awarding of the B-1 bomber contract; exchange of letters with Robert Neumann, US Ambassador to Afghanistan; W.'s letter to R. Nixon; exchange of letters involving misunderstanding of fee charged by EX-Times staffer who went into PR; etc.
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