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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
2 items: 6-pp. transcript, headed "L.A. Times -- John Lawrence -- R#9," undated, is an interview with John Lawrence, one-time LAT Washington Bureau chief; copy of AP clip, 12/19/1972, "L.A. Times man in contempt," when U.S. District Judge John Sirica found Lawrence in contempt of court for refusing to turn over the tape of an interview related to the Watergate case.
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2 items: 3-pp. typed, headed "Bill Murphy notes re possible features," with entries dated from 12/1972; original copy of "Panorama," an LAT retiree newsletter, Summer 1988.
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Approx. 12 items: two informal notes betw. Taylor and "Jim" (Bassett?); clip, N.Y. Daily News, 12/15/1974, "Changing of the guard," a piece critical of LAT and Taylor--Rex Reed's?; 2-pp. copy of "Private" letter from "Chuck" (Champlin?) to "Rex" (Reed?) setting him straight about Jean Taylor--"far from the militant and ambitious liberationist you make her out to be"; Management Bulletin, 12/19/1974, reads in part, "Taylor has been named an associate editor of The Times"; various media clips on Taylor from late 1970s; 20-pp. transcript of interview, "L.A. Times -- Jean Sharley Taylor -- R#7", undated; LAT Biography, 9/1988," Taylor joined LAT in 1971; LAT clip, 5/2/1989, "Jean Taylor retires as Times associate editor"; invitation, 1989, "Please join us at a reception marking the retirement of ...Jean Sharley Taylor"; etc.
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1 item: 37-pp. transcript of interview, headed "L.A. Times" -- Phil Kerby -- R#1." Undated, from internal evidence, it seems likely the interview took place during the early to mid-1960s.
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Approx. 12 items: collection of news clip copies related to Dr. Franklin Murphy and his activities, 1966 - 1975 ; 9-pp. booklet, "...Address to the Shareholders - Annual Meeting 1975" ; 29-pp. speech transcript, "From birth to maturity in 200 years - an oversimplified analogy" by Franklin D. Murphy, 11/5/1974 ; 3-pp. "Biographical data" for Dr. Murphy ; 13-pp. transcript of "Remarks by Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (TM Co.)," 5/28/1975 ; 12-p. issue of Times Mirror Progress, Vol. 13, 1975, including article on "92nd Annual Shareholders Meeting" ; 17-pp. "Taping with Dr. Franklin Murphy, Chairman of the Board, Times Mirror, 10/22/1975."
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4 items: letter, 5/7/1976, "From the desk of...June Duff," addressed to "John," pitching an article or news release she had written; copy of press release, Amer. Marketing Assn., 5/1976, on Robert D. Nelson receiving the 1976 Marketer of the Year Award from the L.A. Chapter of the Amer. Marketing Assn.; official Biography from the Los Angeles Times for Nelson, 7/1976, Nelson was, at that time, exec. VP and GM of LAT, plus a VP of Times Mirror Co.; 9-pp. transcript of undated interview headed "L.A. Times -- Bob Nelson -- R#10."
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