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Bible Story
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Bible Verse letters
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Approx. 90 items: a collection of many of the letters and postcards sent to LAT expressing dismay that the daily Bible verse ("A Bible thought for today"), a feature of the paper for many years, had been discontinued. Also included is a selection of the "boilerplate" responses mailed back to readers. A minister, H.E. Fowler, 30th Street Congregational Church (L.A.) wrote: "Gentlemen, what has caused the "Bible Verse" to be left out of the Editorial section of your paper?"
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Crossword error
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Approx. 12 items: letters and post cards sent by readers complaining that LAT ran the same crossword puzzle on two consecutive days. Subsequent memos and form letters explain that the mistake/misprint appeared in 2,000 copies of LAT. Readers were sent the puzzle that they missed.
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Change in format
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7 examples of complaints about changes in the LAT format, 10/1968, here involving the comics and the opinion pages.
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Bible Verse - Discontinued
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Approx. 60 items: a collection of letters and handwritten notes protesting the discontinuance of "Bible thought for the Day," which had run in LAT for many years. Also included are examples of the reply letters sent by LAT.
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Stereotype Bonus Pay Plan
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3 items, stapled: 5/28/1965 memo to All Stereotype Employees from Charles Chase on Stereotype Bonus Pay Plan; a sheet headed "Stereotype Bonus Plan (incl. "Purpose of Plan," and "Details of the Plan"; 6/1/1965 memo from Chase to Otis Booth and Robert Flannes, on Stereotype Bonus Pay Plan.
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Chronological File - March
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Approx. 95 items. Subjects include: further responses to "liberal columnists" charge by readers; partial editorial guest list for dinner in honor of Otis C.'s Tenth Anniversary as Publisher, including Jack Smith, Bill Thomas, Tony Day, NBW and others; invitation to Gen. William Peers to lunch with LAT Editorial Board for "off-the-record" talk; response to alarm of fans of "Li'l Abner" comic strip after cancellation--ditto "Dick Tracy", including reader who believed LAT was canceling certain comics because of conservative viewpoints ; the My Lai incident (Vietnam War); 3-pp. on "interpretive reporting" (3/20/1970); letter to John Chafee, Sec. of Navy; assuring readers that LAT included a spectrum of political thought; letter to George Mair of KNX on unpaid ads; letter (3/19/1970) to Chester Gould, cartoonist of "Dick Tracy"; the "Paul Conrad serves a useful purpose" (form) letter to Col. C.W. Hoffman of Santa Barbara who had canceled LAT subscription; "dope traffic" in USA and So. Cal. (3/10/1970); 3-pp. response on LAT-Morrie Ryskind-Black Panthers issue; letter (3/5/1970) to Richard Baker of Columbia Journalism Review, challenging elements of a CJR article on the Tate Case (Manson murders) and My Lai (Vietnam) mentioning LAT; letter to cartoonist Al Capp explaining that LAT "had no ulterior reasons...for dropping 'Lil Abner' beyond (improving readership)"; letter (3/2/1970) to Dorothy Bowen, Public Relations, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, on info for Calendar listings; etc.
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