Manuscripts

Straszer, George Collection

Description: George Straszer was the Assistant to Nick Williams in the 1960s. Collection includes correspondence, photographs, speeches, and his California Missions Scrapbook. Date range is 1938-1978.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1938-1978
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Speeches, written and delivered

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items: speech texts, mostly from the 1960s, when Straszer was Assistant to top Editor Nick Williams.

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Straszer, Mike

Manuscripts

Three items comprising six pages pertaining to Mike Straszer, containing letters and memos.

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Approx. 45 items. Letters and memos, some with marginal notes. Subjects include: Straszer reports on much hostility toward LAT at CNPA (Cal. Newspaper Publishers Assn.?) meeting related to "Shopping News" and expansion plans; run-down of savings from cancellation of syndicated features; 1963 list of membership fees paid by LAT, i.e. Ron Ostrow - Aviation Writers Assn., $15; list of "Syndicated Features with Undated Expirations" (1963); "Journalism Issues Survey"; use of Conrad cartoons in a partisan political publication outside the newspaper; the comics page--lists, prices, popularity issues, additions, terminations; visiting journalists; etc.

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Assistant to the Editor - Correspondence

Manuscripts

Materials to/from the Assistant to the Editor, a position held at one point by George Straszer. Arranged chronologically. Date range is 1963-1972.

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Other Collections - George M. Straszer Collection

Manuscripts

Originally maintained as the Los Angeles Times History Center, the Los Angeles Times Records contains materials related to the business life of the Los Angeles Times and its owners - both corporate and personal. The business material is roughly organized by Times department; research material collected by the History Center to document the Times and materials related to the Otis/Chandler families are organized by subject. The records include accounting papers, legal documents, correspondence, directories, memoranda, reprints of articles, supplements to the newspaper, manuscripts, oral history transcripts, ephemera, newspapers, newspaper clippings, and objects. The collection includes a significant amount of audiovisual material, including photographs, film, and audio tapes. There are also several samples of printed newspapers that were collected by the Times History Center.

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Wallace, George C

Manuscripts

Two items of correspondence regarding George C. Wallace. The items include a note to Otis Chandler from Freddie Miller and a letter from Bill Jones to Nick Williams regarding George C. Wallace and the The Wallace Campaign.

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Straszer, George Collection

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