Manuscripts
3 items. Two copies (1 tear sheet, 2 reprints) of article from Los Angeles Magazine, title "The Changing Direction of The Times. Also, one tear sheet copy of Time (mag.) article titled "Enterprise in Los Angeles," on LAT coverage of Watts riots, the resulting Pulitzer, Otis Chandler and the philosophical evolution of LAT. Attached to the Time article is a humorous note, hand-written by Otis Chandler. 7 items. Two tear sheets of Newsweek article, "How to Build an Empire" (1/2/1967) about LAT and the Chandlers--attached is color cover photo of Otis Chandler. One tear sheet and two photocopies of Saturday Review article (9/23/1967), "New Winds in the South, New Splash in the North, in part, about LAT. 4 items. Photocopy of chapter titled "The Times: Los Angeles and New York," from The Elite Press by John C. Merrill, 1968. Photocopy of chapter titled "Expanding Empire of a Newspaper," from Los Angeles--a Profile, by W.W. Robinson. Complete issue of The Nation, 1/15/1968, containing article "Los Angeles Times: Most Likely to Succeed," by Phil Kirby, and a tear sheet of same article. 5 items. Two copies of Harper's Magazine article of 12/1969, titled "The Los Angeles Times," by John Corry. Two news clippings, one titled "Pulitzer Prize Winner Pays Tribute to Times," the other "How Soviet Journalists Rate U.S. Newspapers." Clipping from L.A. Free Press, dated only "1969," titled "Los Angeles Times as Underground," giving the leftist newspaper's reaction to "the L.A. Times editorial of June 1st." The writer concludes, "Considerable changes must have taken place in the editorial offices of the Times...(noting) the increased liberal format of the new L.A. Times."
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