Manuscripts
Chronological File - November
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Chronological File - October
Manuscripts
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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Chronological File - September
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Approx. 65 items. Letters and memos. Subjects include: West magazine; response to a reader's judgements on many of the offerings on LAT comics pages--W. was a fan of "Peanuts," "B.C." and Wizard of Id," while he felt "Dick Tracy" was "slipping"; comments about "Dick Tracy" lacking humor; Stuart Loory's (LAT) arrest in Chicago, Summer 1968; comments on use of RFK autopsy photos and comments on the nomination of Abe Fortas as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; etc.
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Chronological File - April
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Approx. 75 items. Letters and memos. Subjects include: letter to Herbert Brucker, Stanford Prof. Journalism Fellowships; bad reactions to Feiffer cartoons; to Robert Work, Publisher, L.A. Daily Journal; deal for new Barry Goldwater column; more "range of (editorial) opinion" responses to reader complaints; to Edward Chase (VP, New American Library); number of editorial employees takes a leap (up) and Williams is concerned (4/7/1969); 2-pp. letter (4/7/1969) to Celia Zager, Exec. Dir. Fair Housing Council of the SFV; letter (4/7/1969) responding to criticisms of LAT by Hyman Haves, Exec. Dir. Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A.; more defense of LAT coverage of Nixon administration and Gov. Reagan; Williams assures yet another reader that LAT "firmly believes in our democratic institutions" but that "the way to preserve them is to perfect them" (4/14/1967); Advertising Department and West magazine; etc.
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X - Z; Scientology file
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Approx. 40 items: letters, reprints, memos clippings and other materials related to correspondence with persons with names starting with X - Z, and correspondence dealing with Scientology. Includes: letter from Evelle Younger (8/8/1975), Calif. Attorney General. ; collected correspondence with Church of Scientology and/or supporters of Scientology taking exception to LAT coverage of the organization ; correspondence with Canadian law firm hired by Scientology, Leibel & Leibel ; more.
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Chronological File - November
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Approx. 90 items. Letters and memos. Subjects include: Resthaven Psychiatric Hospital; letter to Ken Kantor, Press Editor, NBC (11/22/1970); invitation to Sen. Alan Cranston to "shoot the breeze" with Editorial Board (11/25/1970); the purchase of Tom Curtis editorial cartoons; Suburban section expansion and mast-heads (11/24); letter to Judge William Gray, U.S. District Court (Cent. Calif.); 2-pp. letter to D.J. Bergeron, Pres. of Jet-Lube, on the topic of "The Times Comic Page"; (11/20) letter to Ted Weegar about suspicion that KIBS-radio in Bishop, CA, is reading "Page 2" verbatim; letters congratulating NBW on receipt of the USC Journalism Award; letters on various comics, including "Gasoline Alley" ; (11/17) brief letter to George Gallup of Gallup Poll; more "Paul Conrad serves a useful purpose" letters; letter defending the cancellation of "Dick Tracy" and Daily Bible Verses; letter to Ed Reap saying "Jack Smith's book is one hell of a promotion (for LAT)"; the cartoon "Love Is" being issued as a book; (11/13) discussion of NY Times Editorial Pages and ideas for LAT version--including frequent use of "literate" letters "that blast us"; on San Gabriel Zone and new Southeast Zone; (11/9) changes to Page 1 of View; West's Arizona issue; seminars on the future of print media; etc.
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Chronological File - January
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Approx. 25 items. Letters and memos. (1/9) letter to Nora Kuttner providing her with information on past political endorsements by LAT--"the Times has never backed a Democratic candidate for President, [nor Governor]...but it has endorsed Democrats for every other elective job"--an offers his opinion that the paper had grown more liberal under Otis Chandler but that it was "centrist"; in the same letter he mentions that James Bassett had just begun the process of compiling a history of LAT; a number of letters from this month offer summations of NBW's political philosophy, i.e. to Lawson (1/18), to Kuttner (1/9), etc.; in 1/18 letter to "Colie," NBW writes that "Elizabeth [his wife] died January 11...I'm moving north, as we had planned to do...and will build on a bluff ...at Trinidad (CA); etc. It was at that time, with the move to Northern California, that NBW finally severed his direct ties to LAT.
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