Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
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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Approx. 75 items: LAT news stories and other material on ex-Vice President Richard Nixon in the 1963 - 1964 time frame. Also in this folder are several LAT editorials and columns on Nixon from 1974 [?] including the editorial published 8/7/1974, "The President should resign," in which LAT wrote: "We ourselves especially feel the betrayal of Mr. Nixon. This newspaper has supported him...through a political career (and) more often cheered than criticized. As recently as 1972 we supported his bid for reelection....(We) must now conclude that he is at the end of the political road." Also tear sheets of article, Historical Society of Southern California (Quarterly), date unknown, " 'Rabbits and radicals' - Richard Nixon's 1946 campaign against Jerry Voorhis" ; LAT news stories about Nixon as well as copies of the columns he wrote for the newspaper during 1961, commenting on national and international affairs in his capacity as ex-Vice President of the United States. Also included are a smaller number of in-house memos related to columnist Nixon.
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Approx. 15 items. Subjects include: letter to Otis Chandler from California Savings and Loan League exec. VP.; investors' forum; content of Financial pages (memo to Bob Nichols from Williams); reorganization of Financial; okay from Williams to Frank McCulloch to pick up a financial wire service from AP;
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Approx. 20 items. Materials include: 10-pp. "booklet" (w/ paper clip), "Directions for using the Telephotograver in sending and receiving news pictures by wire" [1920s?]; 1-pp. of info. headed "Wirephoto - modern miracle," 7/15/1943; various Among Ourselves articles, 1928 - 1931, on wirephotos and wire services; news clips, 1925 - 1939 , related to wirephotos; 6-pp. headed "History" [of LAT News Bureau], provides information on that activity from beginning in 1912 to 1942; 4-pp. "Examination of news agencies," an extended set of questions on history, organization, type of services, charges, etc., offered by news agencies (a template for analysis); clips on both AP and UPI having had offices inside LAT building at one time; LAT article, 4/3/1988, "The AP - it's everywhere and powerful," by David Shaw; LAT article by Nick B. Williams, 10/7/1962, "Birth of vital new wire service" (L.A. Times - Wash. Post); other related material.
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1 item: 62-pp. transcript of interview with columnist Jack Smith by Marshall Berges. Notable names & subjects include: Smith recounts editing a story by Otis Chandler and, feeling that every one was being to gentle with Otis and that he would never learn writing that way, Smith "butchered it," finding fault with everything (pp. 1 - 2) ; Smith describes a typical day and his planning & writing columns - Smith remarks, "I write about whatever comes to mind...(but I) make it clear that I don't know what I'm talking about" (pp. 4) ; "desperation is the mother of many columns..." (pp. 5) ; Smith says after he stopped worrying about being repetitious, he wrote on whatever was "uppermost in my mind day by day" (pp. 7) ; typical morning "ritual" (pp. 11) ; heads (headlines for his columns) - "never write them, never suggest them, never change them" - and he shares stories related to the fact that the heads are popular, usually a pun ; he mentions several times his belief that the subconscious works on problems for people, such as writers ; his childhood and youth (pp. 20 - 25) ; "I took journalism at Belmont High School ...the teacher didn't know anything about it" (pp. 23) ; Smith recounts his life prior to WW II - editing a paper for CCC, in Merchant Marines for a time, he married, worked on Honolulu Advertiser, etc. (pp. 26 - 29) ; memories of various writing jobs - "I worked for 8 or 9 newspapers, (a) wire service and the Marine Corps, real estate, public relations...a grasshopper ; (pp. 30+) more memories of his writing career ; family life (pp. 52 - 55)
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Approx. 15 items: letters, memos, reports and other material on the wire service, Reuters.
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Approx. 55 items. Subjects include: prep for start-up of the wire service; reaction of West Coast editors to the concept; assessment of the early weeks of the service; correspondence with Phil Graham, Pres. of Washington Post; text of formal announcements of the service; memos on many aspects of the operation of the news service; notice of Walter Lippman starting a column in Newsweek; etc.
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