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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.85 items. Dozens of examples of letters to LAT regretting the demise of West, along with the boilerplate reply (the letters to LAT ranged from polite disapproval to crass gutter imagery; etc.
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6 items. Article by Pastier, "Civic Center, Part 2"; letters complaining about articles by Pastier; etc.
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Approx. 15 items. Materials include: copy of LAT article (7/20/1941), "'Front door ballot box' starts in Times next Sunday," asking for public opinion on issues, plus 6 sheets of "Forum" questions with the dates they ran in LAT; copies of 5 "Dear Abby" columns, or LAT articles mentioning "Dear Abby" (1962); LAT article copy, 1/17/1926, "Politeness reporter is arrested four times...", LAT staffer say that, generally, LA traffic officers are more polite than those in Chicago and elsewhere; tear sheet, LAT 9/7/1989, "Genetic maps leading us into unknown..."; copy of LAT crossword puzzle, 11/27/1924.
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7 items. Police Chief Edward M. Davis accused LAT of "attempting to generate and contrive news"; survey of newspaper publishers rates LAT second nationally (after NY Times); Saturday Review article praises "the Los Angeles Times, whose rise in both quantity and quality of news coverage during the last decade has been spectacular"; tear sheet of Los Angeles (mag) article titled "Is Los Angeles a three-newspaper kind of town?"; 27-pp. photocopy of manuscript titled "The Los Angeles Times: powerful voice in west coast journalism," by John Poppy; article from New York (mag) titled "Will Big Otis try to cross the East River?" by Edwin Diamond; etc. 9 items. Articles from various sources on the rise of LAT (since 1960) and leadership of Otis Chandler, from Editor & Publisher, Chicago Journalism Review, Business Week, and two foreign language publications (Russian? - Polish?). 3 items. Complete issue of The Bulletin (ASNE) 2/1973 - "Special Issue: The press under fire," includes essay by William F. Thomas, Editor, LAT, titled "How did we get into this terrible fix"; AP brief headlined "Times Brushes off Newsprint Strike"; AP article headlined "Sources dwindling," on confidential news sources and the courts. Approx. 12 items. Several news clippings from papers in Chicago, Santa Barbara, etc., reporting "war of words" between Union Oil Pres. Fred Hartley and LAT, NY Times and Wash. Post; Rex Reed column in Beverly Hills Discloser, titled "...Dull Editor runs The Times"; two copies of reprint from Advertising Age, "L.A. Times: Giant in big media jungle"; two Time (mag) articles mentioning LAT; complete Winter 1974 issue of The Review of Southern California Journalism, including articles titled "The forgotten history of the Los Angeles Times," "The frame-up of Mooney and Billings" and "The book the L.A. Times tried to kill."
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Approx. 60 items: memos, letters and other materials related to operation of the Foreign Desk. Much of this material is correspondence attempting to gain accreditation for LAT journalists in the Soviet Union, eastern Europe, and elsewhere. Other items are related to personnel changes into and out of the Foreign Desk.
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1 item: 21-pp. transcript of interview with Camilla Chandler Frost, 1/21/1980. Subjects include: her childhood and youth in Sierra Madre ; her interest in athletics and horseback riding ; acquaintance with the Herbert Hoover, Jr. family ; her memories of attending Polytechnic School in Pasadena and Anoakia in Arcadia ; her memories of the types of chores she and her brother Otis were expected to take care of around the home and property ; she attends Wellesley College (p. 12 - 13) ; expectations people had of her because she was "a Chandler" ; circa 1940s - "You didn't have rebellious youth as we've had in later eras....You were expected to do certain things and you did them" ; more.
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