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Miscellaneous correspondence (1 of 2)
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Miscellaneous correspondence (2 of 2)
Manuscripts
Approx. 70 items: notes, memos, letters, clips on a variety of subjects. Includes: 10-pp. copied from The New Yorker, "Letter from Los Angeles," by Joan Didion ; letter from Police Chief Ed Davis to Otis Chandler, canceling his subscription and offering the opinion that "the soul of your paper is sick" ; letter from ex-gov. Edmund G. Brown (7/31/1981) ; letter to Thomas from Harry Scott, President of Bohemian Club, San Francisco (7/2/1987) ; 17-pp. "Los Angeles Times strategies for the Seventies" ; discussion of the Dallas Times Herald ; Robert Hilburn's thoughts on LAT pop music coverage (4/2/1979) ; more. Split into two folders.
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Times MIrror Company - Pensions - Correspondence (1 of 2)
Manuscripts
Approx. 110 items: letters, memos, forms related to Times Mirror pensions and group annuities. Many are letters to pensioners, related most often to adjustments in pension payments, including limiting, reducing or canceling payments. Some of the material relates to Prudential Insurance Co.
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S - Miscellaneous Correspondence
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Approx. 25 items. Letters, memos, clippings. Subjects include: discussion of politicians as columnists--Nixon, Goldwater, others; letter from Thomas Storke, Editor/publisher, Santa Barbara News-Press, praising LAT as "the outstanding newspaper of the U.S.," and adding, "you and Otis are making a fine team."; S. Calif. "water problem": a "Conquest-of-Space Trophy"; memo from Display Advertising (from Ted Sell) explaining an advertiser was canceling because "(he) deplores the new vicious trend The Times has taken toward Liberalism," and does not like Otis Chandler or Stanford; literacy & illiteracy in the paper; planning for European trip with Sterling Slappey, Germany Bureau; Among Ourselves articles about the Editorial Dept.; a major film festival for So. California; etc.
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous - Palmer, Kyle
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3 items: 3-pp. letter, 5/26/1954, Bassett to Palmer, reporting on events in Washington, DC - mentioning "McCarthy...circus," Nixon (as Vice President) and others ; 2-pp. letter, 7/21/1954, headed "Personal & Confidential," and providing Palmer with Bassett's view from Washington, DC ; 3-pp. letter, "Kyle" to "Jim," with more political news.
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M - Miscellaneous Correspondence
Manuscripts
Approx. 35 items. Letters. memos (some handwritten), newspaper clippings. Subjects include: editing & publishing the Southeast section in the OC plant; LAT stance on proposed Palmdale Airport; Williams' response to a Carmel realtor who wrote complaining that financial coverage had declined in quality; letter which begins, "The Los Angeles Times is lying (about Vietnam)," and Williams' response; letter from Charles T. Munger, and W's response; letter addressed to Otis C., criticizing LAT coverage of "a homosexual party, and W's response; congratulatory letters and notes related to W.'s retirement; various editions and press times; copy of a 4-pp. essay by Melville Millar titled "Liberty Street"; 5-pp. essay (incl. footnotes), by Melville Millar titled "How Kyoto was Saved"; letters to W. on longevity and poetry from Irving Mandell, with responses;
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Times MIrror Company - Pensions - Correspondence (2 of 2)
Manuscripts
Approx. 110 items: letters, memos, forms related to Times Mirror pensions and group annuities. Many are letters to pensioners, related most often to adjustments in pension payments, including limiting, reducing or canceling payments. Some of the material relates to Prudential Insurance Co.
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