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Rude Awakening - Manuscript
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Rude Awakening - Synopsis
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1 item: 81-pp. manuscript - "Rude Awakening," synopsis of a novel by James Bassett.
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Rude Awakening - Notes (1 of 2)
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Approx. 60 items: clippings, handwritten and typed notes and other material, including a large number of notes on small pieces of paper. Notable items include: 50-pp. of a handwritten journal Bassett wrote at Bowdoin College in 1933 (pp.1 mentions the death of Calvin Coolidge). Split into two folders.
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Rude Awakening - Notes (2 of 2)
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Approx. 60 items: clippings, handwritten and typed notes and other material, including a large number of notes on small pieces of paper. Notable items include: 50-pp. of a handwritten journal Bassett wrote at Bowdoin College in 1933 (pp.1 mentions the death of Calvin Coolidge). Split into two folders.
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Rude Awakening - Notes
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Approx. 25 items: notes, clippings and other material. Notable items include: 6-pp. booklet, "What The Times stands for," 1969 ; multi-page satiric booklet, "The People's Choice, or, Mix your own candidate" by Andre Dugo ; newspaper and magazine article copies on various subjects - Mormonism, the First Amendment, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's thoughts on American hedonism, etc. ; notes, both typed and handwritten.
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Haven, Frank
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Approx. 15 items: collection of news clip copies, news releases, a "top ten news stories" list for 1960, many of them relating to Frank Haven ; 8-pp. speech transcript, "New roles and hazards for today's newspaper," "1969" is written in at top margin of pp. 1 - presumably Haven delivered this speech somewhere that year ; single sheet, "Frank P. Haven - biography," 3/20/1974 ; 15-pp. transcript, "This is a taping with Frank Haven, Managing Editor of The Times, on 11/3/(19)74" - subjects include: Haven describes his first weeks on the job by saying "the paper was not all I had dreamed it would be," which is rare negativity in these interviews ; Haven's memories of Pearl Harbor attack & coverage ; more memories. 19-pp. transcript, "This is a second taping with Frank Haven...(1/23/1975). Subjects include: by mid-1960s Los Angeles Times had made great strides in foreign coverage but needed to beef up local "beats" ; memories of Watts riot coverage (pp. 5) ; improving an often "dull and insular" paper of the 1950s (pp. 9) ; NOTE - this transcript has a great amount of cross-outs and editing marks all over it ; 18-pp. speech text, opening with "Thank you, Mrs. Johnstone," n.d., no other info.
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Rude Awakening - Notes
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Approx. 12 items: article copies, typed and handwritten notes. Notable items include: one faded photo of young man (prob. Bassett) and young woman on a boat ; multi-page copy of article, New York Times Magazine, 1/4/1959, "Nine tests for the Presidential hopeful."
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