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Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Jean Sharley Taylor (1924 - ) began work at the Times in 1971 as the women's editor. She edited the View section, and oversaw Calendar, the Book Review, and the Los Angeles Times Magazine. She was associate editor for feature sections from 1975-1989. Includes correspondence, photographs, and clippings. Date range is 1970-1989.
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Approx. 50 items: memos and letters of Jean Sharley Taylor and other materials related to her work at LAT. Includes: memos, letters and clips on staffing and staff changes, security (including crank caller scare) and honors for Taylor.
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1 item: 16-pp. (numbered pp. 127 - 142) transcript of interview of Jean S. Taylor by Marshall Berges. Taylor was an editor with several of LAT's "soft" news sections over the years, and an organizer of a Woman's Caucus at the newspaper. Notable names and subjects include: LAT Book Review section ; financial status of Book Review section ; more memories.
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A two-tape interview by Marshall Berges comprising of 126 transcribed pages detailing the life of Jean Sharley Taylor, before and during her employment at the Los Angeles Times.
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5 items: LAT article copy, 3/31/1959, "Taylor Trumbo new managing Editor of Times"; 8-pp. letter from Trueblood to Robert Gottlieb (who was writing Thinking Big, the Story of the Los Angeles Times...) containing memories of his years with LAT; article copy, (Honolulu) Star-Bulletin & Advertiser, 6/20/1982, "Road to Siberia led to Paradise, warm memories" on Trueblood's life experiences; LAT obit clip, "Georgia Fifield, ex-radio actress" (T's wife); LAT obit copy, "Z.T. Trumbo, ex-managing Editor of The Times, dies at 85."
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3 items: LAT clip, undated - ca. 1970, "Mark Murphy appointed Times Metropolitan Editor"; single-sheet, "Biography from the Los Angeles Times," for Mark Murphy, 7/1977 (started at LAT in 1964); 24-pp. transcript of interview, headed "L.A. Times -- Mark Murphy -- Tape R#12 and R#13."
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