Opening Hours
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. 45 items. Most of the material is responses to letters requesting permission to reprint LAT articles. Some of the activities requesting this: Consulate General of Israel; Seashore Environmental Alliance; Talking Leaf; Century Publishing Co.; National Notary assn.; State University of New York; etc.
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Approx. 20 items. Subjects include: the Editorial telephone switchboard operations; Employee Opinion Survey & reaction to it (1958); Times pay rates compared to other major newspapers; Editorial budget (for 1969); gifts to Editorial staffers; etc.
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Approx. 70 items. Letters and memos. Subjects include: effort to cut down on long distance phone calls and phone calls in general; letter to U.S. Judge Irving Kaufman, on a K. editorial in the American Bar Assn. Journal on co-operation between those in the legal field and the news media; expenses of Travel Editor Jerry Hulse; more defense of Paul Conrad--"I'm not always in agreement with him, (but) his point of view is useful, and...stimulating"; letter to Newsday Specials canceling LAT use of Erma Bombeck's columns; letters of thanks to staffers marking their 5th LAT anniversaries;
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Approx. 40 items. Subjects include: Tejon Ranch view of State water situation; correspondence with Malcolm Muir, Publisher of Atlas; correspondence with Phil Kirby, Editor of Frontier; extended correspondence with Mr. & Mrs. Richard Mannex, who sought "Truth and Morality in Journalism"; exchange with Irv White, Pres. of Motor Car Dealers Assn. of Southern California regarding inadequate coverage of the Auto Show by LAT; clippings and memos regarding Oscar Mayer obit; description, sent by MGM rep, of how a mock-up of a Los Angeles Times with be used in a motion picture; clipping and correspondence related to case in which young black man, Henry Jones, Jr., robbed teenager Rose Marie Campisi in Alabama in 1970; etc.
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Approx. 80 items. Includes correspondence with other newspaper execs, inter-office memos, letters to the editor, etc. Subjects include: the relationship between the editorial and advertising departments; the issue if morality in cinema; reporting of Errol Flynn's lifestyle; L.A. Philharmonic concerts for young people; controversy surrounding boxer Muhammed Ali; anti-Communists; the John Birch Society.
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Approx. 40 items. Subjects include: moral values in motion pictures & indecency in advertising; "the red-neck tradition" in Southern politics (in letter to E. Etheridge, June 1969); the deal to reprint articles from The Economist; an opinion survey published in Editor & Publisher rating opinion writers, including LAT's, on ideology; Williams reaction to American Center for Education's (previously mentioned) survey alleged that 18% of LAT columnist were "radical liberal" and another 32% were "extreme liberal; etc.
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