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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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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. 60 items. B. corresponded with Joe Holt (U.S. Rep.), Herb Klein (editor, San Diego Union), Ted Rogers (Independent TV), Glenard Lipscomb (U.S. Rep), Otis Chandler (handwritten note),
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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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Approximately 40 items. Several letters were related to a radio program, "Teen-Age Book Parade," with which Bassett was connected during the period when he was Book Review Editor of the L.A. Times. There is in the folder at least one book review Bassett wrote for broadcast purposes for "Teen-Age Book Parade." There is one letter from U.S. Rep. Sam Yorty.
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Approx. 40 items. Memos, letters, newspaper clippings. Subjects include: Proposition A (1959); objections to Moiseyev Dancers' appearance at Shrine Auditorium; racial discrimination by some Long Beach State College sororities; alleged "libelous" statements about Rep. James Utt by columnist Paul Coates; exchange of letters between Williams and Sterling Lord Agency regarding series of 10 columns by James Simon Kunen, described by Lord as "hitchhiking revolutionary bard and author of The Strawberry Statement; departure of Fay Hammond, arrival of new Fashion editor Mary Lou Luther; essay by Art Kunkin, Editor/Publisher of the Los Angeles Free Press; exchange of letters with Los Angeles County Commission Against Indecent Literature; etc.
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Approx. 30 items. Letters, memos, bios, etc. Includes: correspondence between Williams and Robert Rowen, Pres., Pasadena Art Museum; letter to Harry Rowan, Pres., RAND Corp.; coverage of education in California; "the coffee situation in Editorial (1/9/1969); letter from Rep. Edward Roybal on the "auto smog conspiracy; exchange of letters with L.G.G. Ramsey, Editor, The Connoisseur, London, England; material on Joseph Roos, Exec. Dir., Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles; correspondence with William Reason, Editor (in-house newsletter), RTD; etc.
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"Approx. 70 items. Includes list of 1971 articles by B. (same list in folder titled "1971 Articles." The folder includes a report to Bill Thomas from B. titled "Japan Really Won the War," and an article on the British justice system pulled from Catholic Digest of Jan. 1972. Among the prominent persons Bassett corresponded with are a Adm. B.A. Clarey, U.S. Navy, Gov. Edmund G. Brown, August Sebastiani and Sam J. Sebastiani [of Sebastiani Vineyards], U.S. Rep. Bob Wilson, Robert S. Elegant [journalist & author], Herbert Klein [Nixon Dir. of Comm.], Roger Howell [of Bowdoin College], etc. "
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