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Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Three items of correspondence, which include two letters and a memo, between Otis Chandler and Frank O. Sotomayor, Copy Editor for The Los Angeles Times and teacher at the Summer Program for Minority Journalists. Also in this folder are three letters and two memos regarding the Summer Program for Minority Journalists.
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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. 35 items: memos and reports relating to many aspects of the operation of TM affiliate, Newsday. Notable item: 20-plus pp. packet titled "Newsday Five-year objectives." A range of material is included here to keep LAT executives aware of Newsday operations.x
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20+ items: letters, lists, reprints and other material related to the Pulitzer Prizes, 1983. Notable items: complete 16-pp. reprint, "The Baby Jane Doe Story" (Newsday, 1983) ; several items of correspondence involve David Laventhol (Publisher of Newsday, later LAT) ;
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Approx. 40 items. Letters. memos, extended in-house reports by William Trombley on Clark Kerr and the University of Calif., some newspaper clippings. Subjects include: W.'s memo on "tak(ing) The Times out of the business of reporting minor crimes and minor domestic disputes, including routine custody cases and divorces"; editorial telephone service; security - 2nd floor, Times building; Paris bureau rent; law suit brought by Bernard Tohl related to Lois Dwan column in Calendar which referred to his seafood eateries as "four poor (restaurants)'; exchange of letters between William Thomas of LAT and Nick Thimmesch of Newsday, arranging a meeting; newsmen missing in Cambodia; letter from "Minister of Public Relations" for the Church of Scientology, protesting the tone of a John Dart story in LAT; 2-pp. plan from Kelly Tunney for "on-the-street" researching of series of stories on arriving in L.A. without resources and how one gets by; permission to reprint a Charles Hillinger story on Nevada prostitution in True Detective; letter to William Thomas from U.S. Sen. John Tunney; exchange of letters between W. and members of the Journalism faculty at U. of Texas, Austin; exchange of letters between Dan Thrapp and W. just after the latter's retirement -- Thrapp urges W. to write a book, and says in part, "You are...one of the truly great newspaper editors in the history of American journalism , and The Times, under your leadership, accomplished the most thorough and important transformation of any newspaper on record."; William Thomas letter to Amer. Political Science Assn. "recommending the candidacy of Narda Z[acchino] Trout...for a Congressional Fellowship; etc.
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Approx. 35 items: memos, letters and reports on the operation of METPRO (Minority Editorial Training program) at LAT. This program was instituted to facilitate the entry of minority and women staffers into the newspaper industry. Trainees participated in a one-year internship with the paper.
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