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    Speech file

    Manuscripts

    Approx. 25 items: letters, memos, notes, speech transcripts, booklets. Including: Nick Williams speech to Twilight Club, 10/30/1972, "After the election," William Thomas Commencement Address , Delta College (MI), 4/28/1968, several reprints from LAT of Thomas' speeches (1968, 1972), etc.

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    Straszer, George Collection

    Manuscripts

    George Straszer was the Assistant to Nick Williams in the 1960s. Collection includes correspondence, photographs, speeches, and his California Missions Scrapbook. Date range is 1938-1978.

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    Correspondence - Nick Williams

    Manuscripts

    Approx. 15 items: letters, most from Stickell to Nick B. Williams (long-time LAT top Editor who retired in 1971), and a smaller number originating with Williams. They were clearly both business associates and friends.

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    Speeches by LA Times Executives

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    "1) Frank Lester talk to Riverside Realty Board - 4 pages 2) Edward J. Reap at California Circulation Manager's Convention Miramar Hotel, Santa Monica, CA October 17, 1955 - 8 pages 3) Paul Bell to Industrial Counselors, Inc., Santa Barbara, June 7, 1955 - 22 pages 4) Excerpts from Speech by L.D. Hotchkiss "Forty Years of Journalism" - 3 pages 5) Nick B. Williams to at 4th Annual Current Affairs Seminar' speech for October 17 - 8 pages 6) Nick B. Williams to at 4th Annual Current Affairs Seminar' speech for October 17 - 10 pages 7) 20 page speech about advertising with mark ups in pencil."

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    Memoranda file

    Manuscripts

    Approx. 25 items: interoffice memos, many of them involving Straszer and/or L.D. Hotchkiss, LAT top Editor L.D. Hotchkiss. ITEMS ARE BRITTLE; PLEASE USE WITH CAUTION.

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    Employees - Williams, Nick B

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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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