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Pulitzer Prize
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Awards - Pulitzer Prizes
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Approx. 10 items: original, Columbia Library Columns, 5/1957, with list of Pulitzer Prize winners; exchange of letters on LAT's John Birch Society series (1961), from John Hohenberg of the Pulitzer Prize Advisory Board, and response from the office of Norman Chandler; approx. 15-pp. stapled stack, "A complete record of Pulitzer Prize winners, 1917 - 1991"; LAT Fact Sheet, 4/18/1995, "Los Angeles Times Pulitzer Prizes"; related items.
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Awards - Pulitzer Prize, 1942
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Approx. 15 items: 35-pp. printout off Lexis-Nexis, material from US Supreme Court and California Supreme Court; 3-pp. descriptions of "Awards of the Pulitzer Prizes and Traveling Scholarships"; collection of LAT stories on the lead-up to the "Contempt Trial"; collection of LAT articles related to LAT receiving a Pulitzer Prize in 1942, including the headlines "Tribute Paid 'Times' by American Press...great newspapers, wire associations and men in public life send congratulatory messages" (5/7/1942) and "Prize emblem sent to 'Times' "; teletype printout, 5/4/1942, reading in part, that LAT had earlier "instituted litigation which produced a Supreme Court opinion last December upholding the right of newspapers to publish criticism of judicial opinion, even in cases still pending, unless the comment would cause 'extremely serious' evil"; The "Contempt Case" began in 1938, and lasted nearly four years.
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Pulitzer Prize
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Approx. 35 items. Memos, letters, telegrams, postcards acknowledging nominations. Subjects include: telegram to Norman Chandler from Grayson Kirk, Pres. Columbia Univ.; news releases from Columbia Univ. (Journalism School there awards the prizes); material related to LAT winning the Public Service Award for Gene Sherman's series on narcotics smuggling; letters of congratulations from Sen. Thomas Kuchel, Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk, UC Pres. Clark Kerr, etc. Also in the folder is the Pulitzer Prize Certificate (original) and other related items.
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Pulitzer Prize Dinner
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Approx. 30 items: letters, memos, menu lists, guest lists and other material related to the Pulitzer Prize Dinners, 1990 - 1992. Names of correspondents include: Jack Nelson (D.C. Bureau Chief), Paul Conrad (2 time Pulitzer winner), Jim Murray (previous winner, LAT Sports).
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Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1985 - Howard Rosenberg
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Approx. 10 items: LAT clips and copies, Among Ourselves article on Howard Rosenberg's winning of the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism; list, headed "Pulitzer entries...Criticism...Howard Rosenberg"; full-page from LAT (purchased by the Orange County Register) congratulating Rosenberg on his award; a follow-up column by Rosenberg a few days later describing the experience of winning the Pulitzer Prize and his reactions; related material.
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Pulitzer Prize
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Fifteen items comprising twenty-two pages pertaining to the Pulitzer Prize, containing letters, memos, and an invitation.
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