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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
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. 15 items: 16-pp. transcript of "taped interview with former Supervisor John Anson Ford on 2/2/1973" featuring Ford's memories and thoughts on Los Angeles history, the effect on it of Los Angeles Times and the Chandler family and related views ; 7-pp. (numbered pp. 8 - 14) of an "excerpt from (John Anson Ford's unpublished biog.) ; single-sheet (yellow) bio of John Anson Ford ; news clip copies related to F. Daniel Frost ; 1972 single-sheet bio of F. Daniel Frost ; several pieces of correspondence involving Frost, James Bassett, and in one instance, a letter dated 1/28/1977, to Frost from Otis Chandler ; two 5-pp. transcripts of "Taping with F. Daniel Frost, senior partner Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher and a member of the Times Mirror Company Board of Directors," 12/2/1976 ; 2 sheets of handwritten notes related to "John Anson Ford book ; 27-pp. booklet, 4/26/1976, TM "Notice of Annual Meeting."
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A letter to Otis Chandler from F. Daniel Frost regarding a Paul Conrad cartoon. Attached to the letter is a note to Lois [Markwith] from Freddie Miller.
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A letter marked Confidential and Privileged sent to J. Edd Stepp, Jr., Joseph A. Collins, and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, from Robert C. Lobdell, regarding Federal Trade Commission v. Times Mirror. Also in this folder are copies of articles and speeches.
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8 items: copies of notices published in the Santa Barbara Press when Harrison Gray Otis assumed ownership of that newspaper in 1876, and when he relinquished control of it in 1880 ; pp. 1-21 of Noticias, 1/1974?, including an article titled "Santa Barbara journalists, 1855-1973" ; letter copy, 1/7/1974, on letterhead of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, from F. Daniel Frost to Otis Chandler.
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7 items: article copy (1969?), "Times Mirror, Dallas Times Herald merger"; several news clippings from various papers, 5/1970, "Times Mirror Co. elects Chambers"; ; 2-pp. "Biographical data," on Chambers, 2/1971.
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Approx. 30 items. Subject include: an exchange of letters with the publisher's office at Scientific American; exchange of letters with editor Cecil Grahame of Food Service Magazine; a letter to Roger Freeman of The Hoover Institution in which Williams describes his own politics as "slightly right of the current center (1969); exchange of letters with John Freeman, British ambassador to the US; several newspaper clippings on the appointment of Freeman to assist Pres. Nixon on economic affairs; exchange of letters between Williams and John Anson Ford; "Personal and Confidential" letter from F. Daniel Frost of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher law firm on the tax reform law; angry letter from the Gen. Mgr. of the Florida Citrus Commission protesting material that appeared in LAT story (West Magazine) making reference to frozen orange juice concentrate produced in Florida. There is a clipping of the story in question.
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