Manuscripts

Haven, Frank

Description: Approx. 25 items. Subjects include: "healing the racial breech [sic]" while also reporting "the nastier bits" about Black militants; pro sports teams "paying the way" for Times reporters; Entertainment & Sports departments spending too much time "rustling" free passes to events; development of Page 1, Column 1 stories; status of metropolitan coverage (1970); "Interpretation / Opinion"; sports coverage; charity drives; financial conflict of interest of writers or editors; staff vacancies; Orange County coverage; etc.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1969 - 1971
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Haven, Frank

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: collection of news clip copies, news releases, a "top ten news stories" list for 1960, many of them relating to Frank Haven ; 8-pp. speech transcript, "New roles and hazards for today's newspaper," "1969" is written in at top margin of pp. 1 - presumably Haven delivered this speech somewhere that year ; single sheet, "Frank P. Haven - biography," 3/20/1974 ; 15-pp. transcript, "This is a taping with Frank Haven, Managing Editor of The Times, on 11/3/(19)74" - subjects include: Haven describes his first weeks on the job by saying "the paper was not all I had dreamed it would be," which is rare negativity in these interviews ; Haven's memories of Pearl Harbor attack & coverage ; more memories. 19-pp. transcript, "This is a second taping with Frank Haven...(1/23/1975). Subjects include: by mid-1960s Los Angeles Times had made great strides in foreign coverage but needed to beef up local "beats" ; memories of Watts riot coverage (pp. 5) ; improving an often "dull and insular" paper of the 1950s (pp. 9) ; NOTE - this transcript has a great amount of cross-outs and editing marks all over it ; 18-pp. speech text, opening with "Thank you, Mrs. Johnstone," n.d., no other info.

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Haven, Frank

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items. Subjects include: Discussion of "Orange County Notes" page; use of Chandler family and corporate staff names in news stories; coverage of surfing; discussion of retractions; replacement of retirees; payroll procedures; Times staffers and outside writing/television appearances; a "massive assault on...Pulitzer Prizes"; co-operation with KTLA; competition with television generally; etc.

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Haven, Frank

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items. Memos and letters. Subjects include: balance in the Opinion section; news stories mentioning members of the Chandler family or details of Times-Mirror's corporate operations; press run changes, timing of various editions; changes to Fashion and Family sections; allegations of Lyndon Johnson "swinging" work to Texas firms; reduced travel budgets; stories on thalidomide the death of Marilyn Monroe; continuation of Ayn Rand column; automated Western Union copy; upgrading the three news desks and the copy desk; out-of-state election coverage; brief profiles of "men in the news"; etc.

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Haven, Frank

Manuscripts

Approx. 40 items. Memos , letters, one news paper clipping. Subjects include: libel; reportage from Vietnam; Eric Sevareid essay on daily newspapers as "a needle shower of unrelated facts"; Robert Hartmann's high expense account totals; photos of Chandler family members at newsworthy events; staffers' appearances on television and radio programs; living allowances for international correspondents; itinerary for European trip of Williams, Otis Chandler and James Bassett; start of Orange County section; Olympic Games coverage; sending Gene Sherman to London; etc.

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Haven, Frank

Manuscripts

2 items: transcripts of interview with Los Angeles Times Editor Frank Haven, in two parts, 21-pp. and 27-pp., 3/26/1980. Subjects include: memories of his childhood ; Haven works his way up in journalism - he started at San Diego Sun as a teen ; to Los Angeles Times at age 28 (p. 6) ; many memories of newspaper operations in that era ; memories of Nick Williams ; memories of Otis Chandler's 1960s campaign to improve the paper and make the political coverage more balanced, non-partisan ; origins of Sam Yorty-Los Angeles Times feud ; SIDE 2 ; comments on the Nixon-Kennedy election (1960) ; comments on Jayne Mansfield and Frank Sinatra ; interviewer asks Haven to evaluate the strengths & weaknesses of Otis Chandler ; (Side 2, p. 6) ; the GeoTek case ; comments on Bill Thomas (p.11) ; memories of various top editors ; more.

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McCulloch, Frank

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items. Subject include: exchange of letters between Frank McCulloch and a U. of Iowa journalism prof. on news coverage of airliner crashes; Bircher John Rousselot alleges that he and Robert Oppenheimer were being considered as advisors to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations; Cecil Smith column on the sale of KTTV (a Times Mirror holding); McCulloch memo to Williams and Otis Chandler on the potential for expanding subscriber base in San Diego area 8/21/1961); two copies of a 5-pp., July 1, 1963, report by McCulloch on a Columbia U. Seminar on "Effective Community Reporting"; Oct. 14, 1963, resignation letter from Frank McCulloch to Otis Chandler; personal letter to Williams from McCulloch (Feb. 16, 1964) after the later had taken up his new post with Time Inc. in Southeast Asia; correspondence with Raymond McKelvey, Political Science prof. at Occidental College; Williams' business (also personal) letter to Frank McCulloch in 1968 when LAT wanted to lure him back from Time, Inc.--dated Nov. 27, 1968, begins with word "Dammit" (also is stapled inside larger stack of correspondence); full-page tear sheet of July 15, 1963, LAT Sports section with handwritten message on it; etc.

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