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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Manuscripts
Approx. 15 items. A selection of editorials and news stories on the League of Nations, including: editorial, 7/17/1917, "A needed League of Peace" ; editorial, 2/5/1933, "Fourteen years later," a summing up of the pros and cons of the League of Nations ; Santa Monica Outlook, 1/23/1975, "Ford signs treaty proposed in 1925 (at the time of Pres. Coolidge and the League of Nations).
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Approx. 70 items. Representative headlines from LAT editorials and news stories: "Subway, elevated or what?" 7/18/1937 ; "Is L.A. missing the train?" 5/30/1965 ; "We must have rapid transit," 12/19/1965 ; "Transit...we must not delay," 2/21/1966 ; "Planning could get us places," 9/2/1970 ; "What next for transit?" 6/14/1976."
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Approx. 50 items. Material includes: news stories from local and national media on July 1995 LAT layoffs of hundreds of employees; in-depth interviews by Warren Olney of Nat. Public Radio with Laura Morgan (LAT Dir. of Comm.), Kevin Starr (historian, California State Librarian), Charles Rapley (Editor, L.A. Weekly), Lawrence Dietz (historian, author), and Joe Scott (journalist, political consultant), etc.; July 1995 news stories from NY Times, Wall St. Journal, (L.A.) Daily News, The Hollywood Reporter, Editor & Publisher, L.A. Business Journal, L.A. Reader, Chicago Tribune, Time magazine; LAT News Release (7/21/1995) announces "...Section Changes, Staff Reductions."
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Approx. 20 items: news stories, editorials and letters to the editor, LAT and Santa Monica Evening Outlook, on the career of controversial Chief of Police Ed Davis.
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9 items: collection of LAT news stories and other material related to Herbert Klein, Director of Communications for the Nixon administration between 1/1969 and 6/1973. Notable items: 5-pp. copy of "Biography of Herbert George Klein," with 11/6/1972 date stamped on it, and note "Library--pls file for Klein biography" handwritten ; LAT news story copy, 6/6/1973, "Klein quits as press director" ; LAT news story copy, 10/17/1974, "Klein supports Ford's giving Nixon a pardon."
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2 items: 56-pp. transcript of interview by Marshall Berges with Susan Diamond, 6/9/1980 ; 44-pp. transcript of same interview with some notations and corrections [?], also dated 6/9/1980. Subjects include: Diamond describes the type of articles she writes, her writing routine and methods ; her goal - "to write to the person who is not reading the Wall St. Journal and might not understand it (if they did)" ; memories of her childhood and family group ; "the most athletic thing (the family) did was go for picnics on the river bank -- with books" (p. 11) ; English major at Radcliffe ; University of Iowa for Masters ; Brandeis University for Ph. D. - she did not complete it ; joins New Yorker (p. 22) ; disliked New York, zeroed in on Los Angeles to relocate to - she felt Los Angeles was where everything was happening (p. 28) ; freelance work with Business Week, Time, People and Money magazine ; her strengths and weaknesses as a journalist (p. 31 +) ; her career as a writer of long feature stories, which often don't fit a daily newspaper format ; her thoughts on writing long for readers who often don't have time for "long" ; the (painful) editing process ; more.
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