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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. 25 items: LAT article copies, 1940 - 1971, detailing promotions, elections and hirings of executives. Among the prominent names: Otis Chandler, Norman Chandler, Dorothy B. Chandler; Otis Booth, Jr., Walter Annenberg, Harold Brown (Caltech).
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Approx. 50 items: memos, letters, reports and other material related to LAT visitors. Major items: approx. 50-pp. booklet, "Assignment USA."
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Approx. 55 items. Folder includes congratulatory letters upon the occasion of Bassett's January 1970 promotion to Associate Editor of the Times, several transcripts of articles by a writer named Jack Mahon, various other professional and personal correspondence. Walter Annenberg letter removed from Autograph File and returned to Bassett files. Split into two folders.
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Approx. 55 items: memos, letters, speech transcripts, clippings and other material related to LAT staffer David Shaw, the sometimes controversial LAT media critic. Prominent names among the correspondents: A.M. Rosenthal (Editor - NY Times), Katharine Graham (Publ., Wash. Post) - also copy of New York (mag) article by Shaw (11/15/1976), complete issue of Quill (2/1977) with a Shaw article, many more examples of his work and reaction--pro and con.
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Approx. 55 items, including: memos, letters and reports to and from Frank Haven in the 1966 - 1971 time frame. Haven was a managing editor with LAT circa 1960s. (He started as a copy editor in 1941.)
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Approx. 40 items: correspondence and related material exchanged with "A," "B" and "C" individuals and organizations in 1987. Notable names: John S. Carroll (Editor, Lexington Herald-Leader, later Editor of LAT) ; Committee for California Desert National Parks ; Zbigniew Brzezinski.
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