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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
Approx. 15 items - correspondence, clips, article copies, memos, a Charles Champlin bio and interview transcript. Notable names and items: 26-pp. transcript of interview by Bassett titled "Taping with Charles Champlin, Entertainment Editor of The Times," 4/16/1975 ; collection of Champlin's "Critic at Large" column, most dealing with film reviewing, film ratings, "porn" and the film industry in general ; 1-pp. "Biography from the Los Angeles Times" for Champlin ; 3-pp. memo, 3/30/1964, from Nick Williams to Otis Chandler ; related material.
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1 item: 116-pp. interview with Charles Champlin (born 1926), entertainment critic and editor of Calendar section of Los Angeles Times. Wide ranging conversation about his long career with the newspaper and his life in general.
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5 items: memo, 6/24/1965, from Nick Williams to Otis Chandler, happily announces that Martin Bernheimer has been hired as Times [classical] Music Critic; (attached to previous item) 2-pp. bio by Charles Champlin of Bernheimer, dated 6/19/1965;official LAT Biography for Martin Bernheimer, prepared ca. 1971; original of "ASCAP Deems Taylor Award," presented to Martin Bernheimer and LAT, 3/12/1974 ; two portrait photos of Bernheimer.
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4 items: 5-pp. bio packet, incl. photos, copies of clips by and about Scheuer, dated 3/2/1950; 2-pp. bio info, headed "Philip K. Scheuer - Assistant Editor, Drama Department," undated, written in first-person;LAT obit tear sheet, 2/19/1985, "Philip Scheuer, ex-Times film critic, dies"; LAT tear sheet, 2/23/1985, "Scheuer...aisle seat on history" (an appreciation by Charles Champlin).
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1 item: LAT clipping, 2/5/1987, "Lindsay named projects editor."
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3 items: LAT clipping, 2/29/1968, "Otis Booth Jr. Named VP of Times Mirror" (mounted on sheet of paper); clipping, 8/1968, Western Printer & Lithographer, "Otis Booth, Jr., named"; 2-pp. "Biographical Data" for Franklin Otis Booth, Jr. - personal and professional information, dated 5/1972.
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