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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
Many memos between Otis Chandler, Nick Williams, Freddie Miller and other staff members. Some of the items included are a five page memo from Freddie Miller to Otis Chandler, regarding Newsday's Editorials; a couple of pages from the Larchmont Chronicle newspaper regarding the Chandler family with a note written to Freddie Miller from Otis Chandler; a two page list of Donna Swayze and Freddie Miller's duties; and a three page memo from Freddie Miller to Sherral Miller and Joyce Walter
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Fourteen items. Eleven letters correspondence between Art Buchwald and Otis Chandler. Two letters of correspondence between Freddie Miller and Art Buchwald. Two of the letters from Buchwald to Chandler has a a copy of an piece Buchwald wrote and also a memo from Nick Williams to Chandler.
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A form letter from the Inter American Press Association to IAPA members, with an attached memo from Freddie Miller to Nick Williams. Also included is Nick William's response to Freddie Miller. The response has Freddie Miller's name crossed out and "OC" written in red ink.
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Items related to a speech that Otis Chandler gave at the Young President's Organization Meeting on November 8, 1967. Items in this folder included two copies of a memo from Freddie Miller to Otis Chandler, Nick Williams, Robert Gibson and Ed Guthman, regarding the details of the event; the meeting notice; a memo from Paul Bertness to Loren Hibler regarding staff duty details; two memos of correspondence between Otis Chandler and Charles I. Schneider, regarding praises about the event and possibility of Otis Chandler's membership; a memo from Charles I. Schneider to Nick Williams, Bob Gibson and Ed Guthman, in regards to pamphlets about the organization he is sending to them along with the memo; a memo from Mrs. Norman Chandler [Dorothy "Buff" Chandler] to Charles I. Schneider, regarding her approval of hosting a Young' President's Organization event.
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2 items: letter, 1/25/1973, from Nick Williams to Norman Chandler, expressing his admiration of him ; letter, 7/25/1973, Williams to Norman Chandler, on the subject of great American publishers of the mid 20th century. The second letter features Williams' thoughts on Col. McCormick (Chicago Tribune), Henry Luce (Time), the Scripps - Howard Newspapers and The Christian Science Monitor.
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Approx. 35 items: in "Tribute to a renown...Editor, Nick B. Williams," at the time of his death, LAT columnist Jack Smith wrote that, "turned the Los Angeles Times from a biased, provincial, Republican newspaper, into one of the country's two or three best"; program booklet for "The Nick B. Williams Luncheon Party," Levy's Grill, 2/20/1959; 3-pp. transcript of speech at Women's Lawyers Club (1959), titled "Court News Policy," on the topic of a free press; selection of Williams' writings for a variety of publications--California Publisher, The Quill, California Parent -Teacher, etc. ;brief copy, Among Ourselves, 7/1948, on W's career, mentioning his fiction writing; single-page bio ; W's tear sheets, 1959 - 1971, from LAT; LAT clip, 10/28/1981, "Ex-Editor of Times receives press award": LAT Editorial, 7/2/1992, "In Memory of Nick B. Williams," which closes, "Nick Williams mark on The Times is indelible." Williams was with LAT for forty years, retiring in 1971, and after that working as a consultant for Otis Chandler.
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