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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. 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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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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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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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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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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Approx. 30 items: 10-pp. "Civic Auditorium memorandum, 12/9/1957, from Ed Ainsworth to Mrs. Chandler, on "creation of an Auditorium - Music Center facility..."; telegram, 10/31/1958, from Marion Davies to Mr. & Mrs. Norman Chandler congratulating them for editorial on gubernatorial campaign; letter, 12/2/1958, from Dorothy Chandler to Davies, thanking her; series of 7 letters, 1962 - 1963, between Thomas M. Storke (1876 - 1971), Santa Barbara News-Press Publisher, and Dorothy Chandler, headed "Strictly private and confidential"; copy of letter, 6/18/1968, from John Anson Ford to Dr. [Franklin] Murphy on working with Dorothy Chandler and other members of the family; article copy, Among Ourselves, 7/1968, "Death takes Ed Ainsworth, Timesman for 43 years"; transcribed version of a handwritten, 2-pp. letter from Nick Williams to "Mrs. C" at the time of his retirement and after his wife's death, 1/25/1973; 1-pp. Times Mirror bio on Mrs. Chandler; related items, including private letters, cards and notes, many with revealing marginalia. 3 items: glossy reproduction of page from Los Angeles Sunday Times, 9/11/1921, photos & captions for "Shakespeare Revival - 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' " stapled to letter, 1/4/1960, to "Mrs. Norman Chandler," from Lenore Greenfield on the photostat (mentioned above) advertising the Hollywood Bowl production of Shakespeare's comedy; 3-pp. letter from "DBC" to "Miss Lawson," 2/27,1961, on the subject of "factors that restrict women's place in management." Times Mirror Management Bulletin, 1/14/1976, to "Management Personnel," opens "One February 1, 1976, Dorothy B. Chandler is retiring from Times Mirror..."
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