Manuscripts

Shippey, Lee

Description: Approx. 20 items: correspondence between Norman Chandler and Lee Shippey, plus a small number of related letters, including one relating to Shippey's autobiography, Luckiest Man Alive.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1959 - 1960
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.

Misc

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items: speeches delivered by Norman Chandler (plus a small number by Otis Chandler and Albert Casey) from the decade of the 1960s. Notable items: multipage transcripts of remarks by Norman Chandler, Otis Chandler and Albert Casey at the New York Society of Security Analysts, 1/11/1966 ; multipage text of "Auditorium Dedication" for the Harry Chandler Auditorium, 1961 ; Norman Chandler remarks at "...seminar on California Corporations," 10/27/1965 ; selection of Norman Chandler's speeches to Foremen's Conferences in early 1960s.

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Times Mirror Company Annual Shareholder Meeting

Manuscripts

1 item: packet of approx. 20-pp., including an agenda / outline for the Annual Meeting in the Harry Chandler Auditorium, 5/14/1963, plus a script / outline of Norman Chandler's speech for the meeting. 1 item: 27-pp. script for introduction of officers and speech text for Norman Chandler's speech to the Annual Shareholders Meeting, 1964.

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Singapore - Prime Minister

Manuscripts

2 items: letter, 10/31/1967, from Singapore's Prime Minister to Norman Chandler, thanking him for hosting him at Los Angeles Country Club (plus 6 small black and white photos) ; letter, 4/27/1971, to Norman Chandler from the Prime Minister (name not readable but it was Lee Kuan Yew).

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Employees - Shippey, Lee

Manuscripts

3 items: single-sheet bio, "LEE SHIPPEY - Columnist"; article copy, Frontier (mag), 5/1952, "Columnist candidate"; copy of LAT obit, 12/31/1969, "Lee Shippey, retired Times columnist, dies." Shippey has been refereed to as a "human interest" columnist.

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Newspaper Analysis Service

Manuscripts

Approx. 45 items: financial and other reports plus correspondence involving Norman Chandler, H.W. Bowers (TM Treasurer) and Cooke Coen , Gen. Mgr. of Newspaper Analysis Service, 1946 - 1951.

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Projection of Profits - Norman Chandler Christmas speech

Manuscripts

Approx. 20: reports, financial spreadsheets, handwritten notes, and other material collected to help Norman Chandler fashion his 1950 Christmas speech.

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