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Chronological File - February
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Chronological File - January
Manuscripts
Approx. 80 items. Letters and memos. Subjects and correspondents in file include: memo on visit by Ed Patton, Pres. of Alyseska Pipe Line Co., on "plans to build the oil pipe line from the North Slope of Alaska to...Valdez" (1/29/71); letter to Jesse Robinson, Co-chair of Greater Los Angeles Urban Coalition, in response to his concerns about lack of coverage of his organization's meetings; memos about staffers having large amounts of vacation time accrued; additional costs for Southeast Section; memo to Vance Stickell on use of LAT quotes in advertising (1/28/71); discussion and financial numbers on the Publishers-Hall Syndicate contract; (1/28/71) letter to Ben Bradlee (Wash. Post) on the Bureau of National Affairs; (1/28/71) 2-pp. memo to Otis Chandler on lawsuit brought by Chicago Tribune ; "killing" columns by liberal or conservative columnists; (1/25/71) coverage of San Dimas area, extreme eastern L.A. County and western San Bernardino County; 1/25/71) 2-pp. response to Henry Lippitt, a reader who believed LAT to be "anti-business"; (1/25/71) letter to Charles T. Munger; letter to Tony Slaughter of Fort Worth Star-Telegram with LAT ratings for entries in the Texas Gridiron Club Contest (journalism); letter stating that LAT intends to "take a good hard look at John Gardner's Common Cause for an upcoming issue"; (1/19/71) what sound like a facetious letter to an Irene Bende on "why we don't put Jack Smith's picture into his column"; (1/19/71) to Willard Galbraith, "we do not reflexively publish just any (Conrad) cartoon...(or) Ryskind column...some we turn down"; (1/11/71-to Mr. Nuhn) "Pomona...a clinical case in race relations"; the requisite number of letters about the comics page; several letters on "Dark Shadows" comic strip; (1/8/71) memo announcing 9th Annual Editorial Awards at Biltmore; letter to John Anson Ford, speaks of a late mutual friend of both men, Rube Burough; brief letter to Sen. Hugh Scott, Minority Leader, Washington, DC; etc.
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Chronological File - May
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Approx. 85 items. Letters, memos. Subjects and correspondents include: (5/19/'71) NBW memo to Jim Bellows - "I don't think Ellen Peck, Margo or Erma Bomback make much of an impression in (LAT)...I doubt this kind of chatty femininity ever will"; (5/12/'71) 3-pp. letter to Charles Young, Chancellor, UCLA, "i want to argue...for a Dept. of Communications, embracing aspects of...printed and electronic journalism" ; memo to Frank Haven on "reviv(ing) the idea of media coverage" on financial aspects of TV and radio"; letter to disgruntled reader, 5/11, listing instances in which LAT backed Nixon Admin ; (5/11) letter to J. Edward Murray of Arizona Republic on ASNE issues; (5/7/'71) the flap over nutritionist Frederick Stare; letter to Edward Carter, Pres., Broadway-Hale Stores, a UC Regent; a higher ratio of notes to personal friends, due possibly to the fact that NBW was to retire in August; (5/5) letter thanking William Buckley, Jr., for dinner at his home; (5/4/'71) personal investments may compromise reporting or editing duties at LAT (to Haven, Cotliar, etc.; (5/27) letter to a Mrs. Trent on X-rated films, etc. ; 2-pp. memo on West magazine; letter to Sen. Harold Hughes in DC; letter to Julian Nava, Pres., L.A. Board of Education; to Judge William Palmer, L.A. County Superior Court.
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Chronological File - February
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Approx. 60 items. Letters & memos. Subjects include: Eric Hoffer's retirement; (2/27/'70) letter to regular complainer, NBW writes-- "as you go along, you're beginning to get a little vulgar. Your (recent) letter sounds like you might be fresh out of one of our campus riots"; due to budget, NBW instructs editors to "restrict...the use of part-time and temporary people"; (2/27/1970) trial of Chicago Seven; (2/27/1970) letter to Herbert Klein, (Nixon) White House Comm. Director, on "the flow of information to the public (on Vietnam war-related issues)" ; 2-pp. memo to Otis C. on "minimum space requests"; in editorial pages, fashioning key sentences or even key phrases from many letters on an issue into a sort of article/sidebar and calling it "something like: The Public Speaks Out..."; on 2/11/1970 NBW responds to a reader who claims LAT has "been taken in by the marijuana movement."
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Chronological File - March
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Approx. 90 items. Letters, memos. Subjects and correspondents include: reply to reader who accused NBW and columnists he disliked of being "owned by the Chandlers"; letter to Charles Bennett, Editor of The Oklahoman, informing him that NBW and James Bassett would be resigning from their posts with ASNE as of Spring 1971, and suggesting the names of Robert Donovan and Anthony Day as replacements (3/30/1971; a letter in which NBW admits that he is "the man who fiddles with the comic page," because "an editor must have something to do to pass the time"; (3/29) letter on LAT editorial on SST (Super sonic transport); plans for meeting between "key members of the editorial staff" and "not more than five members of the trial lawyers association" (3/30/'71); letter to David Laventhol (Newsday) - "I hope it's no secret that I am an admirer of Newsday"; (3/23) 3-pp.letter to Otis Chandler on several topics, incl. a plan to specify "senior editors" to be "super-reporters of subjects"; letter to Ashraf Ghorbal, Minister Plenipotentiary, United Arab Republic Interests Section, NYC; 2-pp. letter to Kathleen Carr on NBW' college education and his interest in archeology; (3/22/'71) letter to Janet Foulkes on the virtues (or not) of several comic strips; several letters to Robert Chandler, Editor/Publisher., The Bulletin (Bend, OR); (3/11/'71) 3-pp. reply to Dan Jamison, CMC student, on his criticisms of LAT coverage of the Manson trial and the Nixon administration); (3/9) letter to J. Edward Murray, Arizona Republic, explaining some of the changes among top LAT staffers; the John Anson Ford memoirs.
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Chronological File - October
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Approx. 125 items. Letters, memos, one longer report, a note sheet on "Craig St. Clair" paper listing some topics. Subjects include: letter to Saul David of Saul David Productions; NBW mailed material on the Angela Davis court case to William F. Buckley, Jr., at The National Review; damage control (10/16/1969) after an Al Capp cartoon ran with "insulting and sacrilegious" elements in it; 3-pp. letter to Jack Nightscales of The Vancouver Sun on "the major challenge (to newspapers) for he 1970s"; letter (10/14/1969) to Press and Information liaison of the Israeli Embassy in DC; letter (10/13/1969) to Anatoly Dobrynin, Ambassador from the Soviet Union; world population control; response to subscriber in Palos Verdes who is canceling--he apparently felt LAT was too liberal and "soft on crime"; 4-pp. letter to Bruckner of LAT Chicago bureau on a "Nixon-Madison Ave.-Vietnam column (10/7/1969); letter to John Anson Ford on El Pueblo State Historical Monument; more defense of Paul Conrad; NBW reminds a staffer that the Peter Principle (of Dr. Lawrence Peter) "first appeared in West magazine"; memo on the expense account of Anthony Day(10/8/1969); memo on "gifts to editorial staffers"; (10/29/1969) status of LAT Editorial; LAT design (10/30/1969); 11-pp. "memo" to Otis Chandler primarily on Editorial Space, Design of The Times and Editorial mid-level execs not included in the Executive Incentive Plan; "Page One, Column One" articles; letter to U.S. Sen. John Sparkman; (8/12/1969) 3-pp. memo to Otis C. on Minimum Space Requirements; etc.
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Chronological File - October
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Approx. 85 items. Letters, memos. Subjects and correspondents include: 2-pp. letter to Walter Berquist (Bullock's Pres.) on LAT article his company found offensive; a late-Oct. '70 cartoon by Conrad must have struck a nerve, there were a larger than usual stack of "Conrad serves a useful purpose" letters at that time; letter to John Robinson, Jr., Exec. Dir., Los Angeles World Affairs Council, on Joseph Alsop; letter to Gene GiWoff [sic] on "Los Angeles" mis-pronounciations ; letter to Evelle Younger, County District Atty. ((10/29/1970); letter to Herbert Klein, White House Comm. Director (10/22/1970); 3-pp. letter to Ben Bradlee, Editor, Washington Post (10/21/1970); letters related to a controversy involving LAT columnist Dr. Frederick Stare, a nutritionist; (10/14/1970) 3-pp. letter to Otis Chandler on Times-Post News Service; letter to "Secretary General" [no name used] of United Nations, sending regrets regarding invitation to "Editors' Roundtables"; letter to reader on Head Start and unnecessarily long trials / justice system ; letter (10/7/1970) to J. Edgar Hoover, FBI chief ; 3-pp. memo to Otis Chandler headed "Joint Office Space in Washington; etc.
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