Manuscripts

Storke, Thomas M

Description: 1 item: LAT editorial copy, 11/7/1961, "Honor to a true Conservative," reading in part, "The honored conservative is Thomas M. Storke, 84, editor-publisher of the Santa Barbara News-Press. He (has) received the 1961 Lauterbach Award of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University for his vigorous insistence that 'public issues be discussed with decency and sanity'." LAT described how he stood up against influential Santa Barbara residents who supported the John Birch Society.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1961
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,

Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1960 - Gene Sherman

Manuscripts

3 items: UPI article copy, 5/3/1960, "Pulitzer public service prize awarded to The Times"; Among Ourselves article copy, 6/1960, "Pulitzer Prize awarded Times...Gene Sherman's articles on narcotics traffic honored"; LAT article copy (Nick B. Williams column), 2/19/1961, "A little luck helps."

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Shuster, Alvin

Manuscripts

1 item: 55-pp. transcript of interview with Alvin Shuster, Chief Editorial Writer (later Foreign desk editor and other posts) at LAT - interview subjects - his duties in the Editorial Pages (pp. 1 - 3) ; his typical day (pp. 4 - 7) ; his childhood through high school in Washington, DC and employment by NY Times when he finished high school circa 1947 (pp. 11 - 16) ; to Harvard as a Nieman Fellow in 1966, same class as LAT colleague Anthony Day (pp. 19) ; foreign correspondent for NYT (pp. 24 - 28) ; joins LAT ; contrasts NYT and LAT (pp. 34 - 40) ; more memories and thoughts.

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Warren, Earl - Clippings

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Approx. 90 items: LAT news stories and editorial copies on the activities and career of Earl Warren during the 1959 - 1975 time frame. Warren was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1953 until 1969, when he retired. The folder also contains these items: Page One LAT obit copy, 7/10/1974, "Earl Warren, 83, Chief Justice for 16 years, dies" ; clip, 7/16/1974, Santa Monica Outlook [conservative], He seized Golden Chance to become liberal hero," closes with the phrase "here was a great American" ; original 55-pp.booklet, In Memoriam - Honorable Earl Warren, Chief Justice , Supreme Court of the United States, 5/27/1975, text of tributes and testimonials to the memory of Justice Warren.

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Civil Rights - American Civil Liberties Union

Manuscripts

4 items: booklet, Fifty Years of the American Civil Liberties Union, 1973; LAT article clip, 12/9/1973, "Lear, Cronkite, Times honored" ; LAT editorial clip, 7/14/1974, "The ACLU...destination unknown" ; LAT clip, 7/21/1974, "Letters to The Times," on the earlier ACLU editorial.

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Employees - Seidenbaum, Art

Manuscripts

8 items: copy of 1964 LAT ad featuring photo of Seidenbaum, and caption "he offers you an aisle seat on the performance of tomorrow"; copy of NYT (?) review of Seidenbaum's book, "This is California - please keep out" (1975); article copy, Santa Barbara News Press, 5/3/1975, "Seidenbaum personifies 'California Runaways' "; single-sheet Biography from the Los Angeles Times, "Art Seidenbaum," 10/1976; ; LAT Biography, 2/ 1985 (plus another Biography version; LAT obit clip, 7/26/1990, "Art Seidenbaum - Times Columnist, writer and editor"; LAT clip, 7/26/1990, "An appreciation - Enduring memories of longtime colleague Art Seidenbaum" by Charles Champlin.

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Nixon, Richard M. - Clippings

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Approx. 75 items: LAT news stories and other material on ex-Vice President Richard Nixon in the 1963 - 1964 time frame. Also in this folder are several LAT editorials and columns on Nixon from 1974 [?] including the editorial published 8/7/1974, "The President should resign," in which LAT wrote: "We ourselves especially feel the betrayal of Mr. Nixon. This newspaper has supported him...through a political career (and) more often cheered than criticized. As recently as 1972 we supported his bid for reelection....(We) must now conclude that he is at the end of the political road." Also tear sheets of article, Historical Society of Southern California (Quarterly), date unknown, " 'Rabbits and radicals' - Richard Nixon's 1946 campaign against Jerry Voorhis" ; LAT news stories about Nixon as well as copies of the columns he wrote for the newspaper during 1961, commenting on national and international affairs in his capacity as ex-Vice President of the United States. Also included are a smaller number of in-house memos related to columnist Nixon.

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