Manuscripts
Correspondence & Miscellaneous
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W - Miscellaneous Correspondence
Manuscripts
Approx. 30 items. Letters. Subject include: coverage of Pomona Valley; Conference on the Nat'l. Economy, Washington, DC; exchange of letters with Ronald Wise of Sierra Club; "a subscriber... for many years" cancels his subscription. after being offended by an Oliphant cartoon, which prompts him to write of "the sick humor" of a "narrow-minded idiot" using "gutter-like attacks on the parochial schools..."; series of letters from Clore Warne to Otis Chandler, Nick Williams and William Thomas with suggestions for improving the newspaper are neat, literate and object to certain aspects of advertising; letter from Caspar Weinberger; etc. Caspar Weinberger letter removed from Autograph File and returned to Williams Subject Files.
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous
Manuscripts
Approx. 100 items. Letters show B. associated or corresponded with John Rousselot, (Sec. of Navy) Thomas S. Gates, Jr., "Mrs. Chandler" (1958), Stewart Alsop, and Caspar Weinberger. Continued association with Broadcast Music Inc., (program was "The Book Parade").Copy of Times-Mirror "Executive Incentive Plan" in folder.
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous - July - December
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Approx. 65 items. Includes an invitation to the inauguration of Nixon-Agnew in January 1969, an accusatory letter from a reader who is canceling their subscription for various reasons, including "We think Mr. (Paul) Conrad is a sick man," and a 1969 employee ID card for Bassett. Prominent persons in correspondence with Bassett: McGeorge Bundy, Robert Novak (journalist), and Caspar Weinberger.
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous - July - December
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Approx. 65 items. Includes an invitation to the inauguration of Nixon-Agnew in January 1969, an accusatory letter from a reader who is canceling their subscription for various reasons, including "We think Mr. (Paul) Conrad is a sick man," and a 1969 employee ID card for Bassett. Prominent persons in correspondence with Bassett: McGeorge Bundy, Robert Novak (journalist), and Caspar Weinberger. Split into two folders.
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous - January - June
Manuscripts
Approx. 65 items. Includes an invitation to the inauguration of Nixon-Agnew in January 1969, an accusatory letter from a reader who is canceling their subscription for various reasons, including "We think Mr. (Paul) Conrad is a sick man," and a 1969 employee ID card for Bassett. Prominent persons in correspondence with Bassett: McGeorge Bundy, Robert Novak (journalist), and Caspar Weinberger. Split into two folders.
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous
Manuscripts
Approx. 100 items. Correspondence includes a wide variety of material from handwritten personal notes to formal business letters. Also a message from Thompson Cigar Co. regarding a price increase, a complaint about the "left wing slant" of cartoonist Paul Conrad, a note from Caspar Weinberger, a 19 pp. list headed "Pacific War Correspondents - Upchuckers," telegrams, inter-office correspondence, LAT reprints and other news clippings. There is a smaller folder filed inside this one with materials related to the 24-day tour of Latin America made by Nick Williams and James Bassett (May-June 1965).
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