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Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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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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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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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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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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"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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1 item: 16-pp. transcript - "Third taping with Otis Chandler," 7/31/1975. Subjects include: the Mirror-News (pp. 1 - 4) ; Los Angeles Times' improvements and improved profitability during the 1960s (pp. 6 - 7) ; "the next eight or ten years" from 1975 - (pp. 7) ; early 1970s recession (pp. 8) ; Nick Williams (pp. 10 - 12) ; top Editor candidates (Robert) Donovan, William Thomas, Anthony Day, Ed Guthman (pp. 13) ; selection of William Thomas as Editor (pp. 15).
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