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Correspondence & Miscellaneous
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Approx. 25 items. Folder includes congratulatory letters and notes (some handwritten) on the occasion of Bassett's October 1977 retirement, retirement luncheon announcement and guest list, an Oct. 21, 1977 clipping from The Malibu Times on his retirement, clippings from Los Angeles Times. Also correspondence from journalist Robert Elegant and Sen. Alan Cranston.
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Publishers' Forest Products
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Approx. 16 items: correspondence between Norman Chandler and Orin Rosenberg (Publishers' Forest Products), Sen. Thomas Kuchel, Sen. George Murphy and others on the subject of the forest products industry.
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Miscellaneous correspondence
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Approx. 45 items: packet under date 9/10/1982, on Lois Dwan's style of restaurant reviews ; memo, 12/14/1970, from Franklin Murphy on "inside(r trading) information" ; reprint, 6/1986, of a Sales and Marketing Management article, "America's best sales forces," which named Times Mirror's sales force #1 nationwide in the "Publishing & Printing" category ; packet, 12/5/1979, on subject of "Ad stacking" ; memo, 6/25/1986, from Stickell announcing the end of "a relationship with Farmer's Market (3rd & Fairfax)... that has existed for over fifty years" ; 2-pp. handwritten letter of appreciation (10/9/1986) from Harry Clarke (Ad. Sales) at the time of his retirement.
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Harm's Way - Correspondence & Misc
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Approx. 100 items. Business and personal correspondence related to Bassett's novel, "Harm's Way." Correspondents include: Times-Mirror Syndicate, Rex Barley (literary agent), Macmillan Co.(A.L. Hart, Jr.), New American Library, McGraw-Hill Book Co., World Publishing (William Targ), Prentice-Hall Inc., Library Journal, Aerojet-General (George Pelletier, Pub. Rel.), Sen. Barry Goldwater, Chuck Bailey (Look magazine), Caspar Weinberger, etc. Copies of legal and financial documents related to the novel, many congratulatory notes from newspaper people nationwide, newspaper clippings (ads & commentary), and other ephemera.
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Correspondence
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Approx. 30 items: 10-pp. "Civic Auditorium memorandum, 12/9/1957, from Ed Ainsworth to Mrs. Chandler, on "creation of an Auditorium - Music Center facility..."; telegram, 10/31/1958, from Marion Davies to Mr. & Mrs. Norman Chandler congratulating them for editorial on gubernatorial campaign; letter, 12/2/1958, from Dorothy Chandler to Davies, thanking her; series of 7 letters, 1962 - 1963, between Thomas M. Storke (1876 - 1971), Santa Barbara News-Press Publisher, and Dorothy Chandler, headed "Strictly private and confidential"; copy of letter, 6/18/1968, from John Anson Ford to Dr. [Franklin] Murphy on working with Dorothy Chandler and other members of the family; article copy, Among Ourselves, 7/1968, "Death takes Ed Ainsworth, Timesman for 43 years"; transcribed version of a handwritten, 2-pp. letter from Nick Williams to "Mrs. C" at the time of his retirement and after his wife's death, 1/25/1973; 1-pp. Times Mirror bio on Mrs. Chandler; related items, including private letters, cards and notes, many with revealing marginalia. 3 items: glossy reproduction of page from Los Angeles Sunday Times, 9/11/1921, photos & captions for "Shakespeare Revival - 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' " stapled to letter, 1/4/1960, to "Mrs. Norman Chandler," from Lenore Greenfield on the photostat (mentioned above) advertising the Hollywood Bowl production of Shakespeare's comedy; 3-pp. letter from "DBC" to "Miss Lawson," 2/27,1961, on the subject of "factors that restrict women's place in management." Times Mirror Management Bulletin, 1/14/1976, to "Management Personnel," opens "One February 1, 1976, Dorothy B. Chandler is retiring from Times Mirror..."
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Harm's Way - Correspondence & Misc. - November - December
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Approx. 100 items. Business and personal correspondence related to Bassett's novel, "Harm's Way." Correspondents include: Times-Mirror Syndicate, Rex Barley (literary agent), Macmillan Co.(A.L. Hart, Jr.), New American Library, McGraw-Hill Book Co., World Publishing (William Targ), Prentice-Hall Inc., Library Journal, Aerojet-General (George Pelletier, Pub. Rel.), Sen. Barry Goldwater, Chuck Bailey (Look magazine), Caspar Weinberger, etc. Copies of legal and financial documents related to the novel, many congratulatory notes from newspaper people nationwide, newspaper clippings (ads & commentary), and other ephemera.
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