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F - Misc. Correspondence
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N - Miscellaneous Correspondence
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Approx. 35 items. Letters, memos, telegrams, newspaper clippings. Subjects include: "narcotics problem" campaign (letter from R. Nixon); Feather River water project; letter to Oregonian Editor Robert Notson, in which Williams writes of new Publisher Otis Chandler that he "will become a great one"; Times-sponsored charity football game & NAACP; correspondence with the Nieman Fellowship Committee; letter of appreciation from columnist Robert Novak, Washington, DC; 3-pp. letter in 1969 to Jack Nightscales (Vancouver Sun) on "the major challenge for [newspapers in] the '70s...will be to make them an essential part of their...audiences' daily lives"; series of letters between editor of the Picayune Item (Mississippi) and Otis C. and Williams about controversial story by LAT's staffer Ken Reich; awarding of the B-1 bomber contract; exchange of letters with Robert Neumann, US Ambassador to Afghanistan; W.'s letter to R. Nixon; exchange of letters involving misunderstanding of fee charged by EX-Times staffer who went into PR; etc.
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F - Misc. Correspondence
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Approx. 25 items. Subjects include: literacy tests for voters; Sen. George Murphy and conflict of interest; recycling of solid wastes; several letters congratulating Williams on his retirement; etc.
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Freeman, Y. F
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3 items: exchange of letters between Norman Chandler and Y. F. "Frank" Freeman, Vice President of Paramount Pictures
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W - Miscellaneous Correspondence
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Approx. 65 items. Letters, memos, news clippings. Subjects include: exchange of letters with a Porterville, CA., physician, James Williams, Jr., who complains, "For the past year...your news characteristics of reporting have changed, leaning definitely...to the left." Williams implies that W. might be a communist dupe. W. replies, "My intentions are to see that the news is printed as factually as...possible."; exchange of letters on Editor & Publisher questionnaire, "...New Directions in Journalism"; exchange of letters with John Wayne related to the film, "The Alamo," Americanism, and other topics; the ups and downs of the Space program ; letter typical of early 1960s from Lee Wright (Canoga Park, 1964) complaining of LAT's shift from conservatism and canceling his subscription; ads taken by opponents of Vietnam war; exchange of letters with James Brady, editor of WWD, in which B. complains that Joyce Haber (LAT) has plagiarized from Women's Wear Daily, W. responds; LAT cookbook; popularity of various LAT segments, including advertising; phosphates in laundry detergent; letter from A. L. Wirin and response; etc. A. L. Wirin correspondence removed from Autograph File and returned to Williams Subject Files.
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G - Miscellaneous Correspondence
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Approx. 45 items. Subjects include: furor over columnist Morrie Ryskind's criticisms of LAT and AP; the William Wieland case; Khrushchev visit to USA; exchange of letters with Barry Goldwater encouraging him to continue his column for the LA Times Syndicate; dropping of "Dick Tracy" comic from the Times & extended exchange with Chester Gould, creator of the comic; exchange of letters between J.J. McClellan, a V.P. of Facelle Co., and Williams, after the company accused the Times story "Grocery Shelf Psychology" of being "biased and inaccurate"; the films of John Wayne--good and bad; etc. Aug. 13, 1965 letter to Wes Gallagher notes that the LAT "is under constant and frequently outrageous attack by some elements of the extreme right."
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XYZ Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1961-1971
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Approx. 45 items. Subjects include: W.'s letter to Mayor Yorty thanking him for meeting with LAT group; extended exchange of letters in 1965 between. W. and A.S. Young, a reader who phoned the paper to comment on a story and had an anonymous staffer made an extremely rude, racist remark to him; a later exchange (1968) when Young was writing for the Los Angeles Sentinel (a Black-owned and operated newspaper); exchange with Leonard Warner about "additional lines" in an LAT story that was picked up and run by the Wash. Post, added w/o the writer's okay--a "no-no" in journalism; material related to Alexander Zinchuck, a high-ranking official of the Soviet Embassy in Wash., DC, 1967; various correspondence on the Middle East situation; exchange of letters with the Fair Housing Council of the San Fernando Valley; the 52-pp. "A-Student" supplement (1969); a letter to W. from Andrew Young, Exec. VP of the Southern Christian Leadership Council; exchange of letters with Charles E. Young, UC Chancellor, 1971; etc.
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