Manuscripts
Chronological File - February
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Chronological File - March
Manuscripts
Approx. 75 items. W.'s letters and memos. Recipients include: Irene Weinrowsky (German Consul in L.A.); Charles Guy (Edit. & Publisher, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal); Jean Crum (Pres., L.A. County Medical Assn.); James Boylan (Editor, Columbia Journalism Review); The Nieman Fellowship Committee; Harvey Schecter (Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith); Rev. Kenneth Ryan (Editor, Catholic Digest); Irving Kaufman (U.S. Court of Appeals); James Brady (VP & Publisher., Women's Wear Daily); William Thomas related to College Board panels; J. Edward Murray (Arizona Republic); etc.
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Chronological File - January
Manuscripts
Approx. 95 items. Williams' letters and memos. Various recipients, including: multiple letters to Phil Kerby (The Nation) and Frank Haven (LAT); Thomas D. Morris (Asst. Sec. of Defense); Jack Wrather (Wrather Corp.); Donald McDonald (Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions); V. Bogachev (USSR Embassy, D.C.); form letters to a number of readers who interpreted an LAT illustration as depicting the Biblical Cain as a Negro; Robert T. Hood (LACMA); memo related to staffers appearing on KCET-tv; John Anson Ford; others.
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Chronological File - May
Manuscripts
Approx. 80 items. Letters and memos. Subjects include: renewal (with United Feature Syndicate) of comic strip "Peanuts"; business/social letter to Harry Brand of 20th Century Fox Film Corp. (5/9/1969; reactions to writer Eric Hoffer; black reporters and editors (5/12/1969); business/social letter to George C.S. Benson, Pres., Claremont Men's College; to Celia Zager, Exec. Dir. Fair Housing Council of the SFV; to Edmonde Haddad, KPOL-radio; to Kanji Takasugi, Consul Gen. of Japan in L.A.; to J.G. McEntyre, Consul Gen. of Canada in L.A.; to Raul Gonzalez Galarza, Consul Gen. of Mexico in L.A.; response to a reader who told Williams which comic strips she liked AND had given some kind of suggestion related to both William Buckley and editorial cartoonist Conrad; to John Anson Ford; another defense of Conrad as "serving a useful [social] purpose; to David Packard, Asst. Sec. of Defense (5/29/1969); assures reader (5/29/1969) that LAT would support Yorty, Reagan and Nixon, or any official, "when we agree with what they have proposed"; etc.
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Chronological File - December
Manuscripts
Approx. 85 items. Letters and memos. Subjects include: new type faces; letter to Ambassador. Walter Annenberg (12/30/1970); LAT not a Republican or a Democratic newspaper; 2-pp. letter to Robert Krueger of Planning Research Corp. on Conrad's cartoons, William Buckley's column, and the fact that comic strips not chosen at LAT on the grounds of political philosophy (12/30); answer to irate reader denying that LAT "slant(s) news along Pro-Arab lines"; answer to a Berkeley woman who took exception to LAT's Women of the Year selections, especially Goldie Hawn (12/30); obsolescence of comic strips; 1970 Editorial Awards; letter to Ben Bradlee (Washington Post) on costs of "IHT" (International Herald Tribune?) ; letter (12/21) to Constantin von Dziembowski, German Consul General in L.A.; on new architectural critic, John Pastier; reply to claim by singer Bobby Darin (12/18) that LAT was anti-Semitic; reply to reader, James B. Gordon (12/11) believed LAT was biased against the Nixon Administration; letter to Andrew Franklin, British Consul-Gen. in L.A. (12/10); letter to Patrick Monaghan, law prof. at U. of Idaho, on confidentiality of sources; list of new editorial employees (10/30/1970 ?); 2-pp. letter to Robert Elegant, LAT correspondent in W. Germany (11/23/1970 ?); etc.
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Chronological File - June
Manuscripts
Approx. 85 items. Letters and memos. Selected addressees and subjects: student unrest in USA and worldwide: Kirk Polking, Editor of Writer's Digest; Harvey Wheeler, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions; many letters to readers, both pleased and displeased; discussion with Arthur Laro, Exec. VP of the Syndicate that provided "Dick Tracy," on the virtues and faults of the comic strip; positive reaction to Jim Murray's column on RFK assassination; Israeli Ambassador Rabin coming to LAT for off-the-record discussions; etc.
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Chronological File - February
Manuscripts
Approx. 75 items. Letters and memos. Subjects include: sheet of notepad paper with "Craig St. Clair" printed on it, summarizing content; full-page letter to U.S. Sen. George Murphy; many examples of a form letter to employees which opens--"The ten shares of Times Mirror stock which you were awarded..."; letter stating that Otis Chandler and "key people" of LAT staff would like to see and discuss findings of Pereira & Associates on urban problems in the "Negro areas" of Los Angeles; letter to Herbert Brucker, Dir., Professional Journalism Fellowships, Stanford; letters related to subscriptions to various comics, astrology columns...; reinstating comic strip "Brenda Starr" (or not); operation of the Travel Section; letters to individuals at Buffalo Evening News, Newsweek Feature Service, Stanford U., The Heritage, George Washington U., Washington Star Syndicate, King Features Syndicate, Chicago Tribune--New York News Syndicate, Christians and Jews for Law and Morality, Rep. Glenard Lipscomb; the possibility of Charles Champlin and Art Seidenbaum doing a weekly show on KCET-tv; discussion of West magazine; etc.
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