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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. 35 items. Subjects include: "wire-sharing" with AP; writer Nicholas von Hoffman; proposed terms of agreement with Agence France Presse and other materials; Executive Committee Meeting minutes (4/21/1972); results of LAT-WPost News Service questionnaire on client usage of various features and request for feedback on the service; 4-pp. report to Bill Thomas and Ben Bradlee headed :Private and Confidential," about the news service operation in Europe; writer David Broder; Executive Committee Meeting minutes (11/10/1972 & 12/7/1972); information on the finalized agreement between Agence France Presse and LAT-WP News Service; etc.
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14 items. Materials include: 13-pp. chronology, headed "Editorial Changes," running from 4/24/1960, "Opinion Section stared...", to 5/1974, "News Bureau is established in Cairo...", and 6/1974, "Paul Steiger wins the ...Loeb Award" (Financial journalism); 6-pp. (stapled) headed, "Today's metropolitan newspaper must compete successfully with other media," followed by listing of "Editorial Improvements" running from 1960 to 1966, bureau openings, news additions to LAT editorial staff, innovations; 2-pp. with listing of "Sections of the Times," giving dates various sections started, and more in-depth info for Obituary Page, the Tuesday Business Section, and Focus; article, Among Ourselves, 1929, "How we have grown!"; two copies of 12-pp. booklet titled "Daily and Sunday Features published in the Los Angeles Times ("1959" added in pencil on the unbound copy), the spiral-bound copy (with cover) is dated 1/1/1962 (binding removed) ; 1-pp. chronology for "Los Angeles Times Illustrated Weekly Magazine," 1897 - 1934; 1-pp. chronology headed "Home Magazine started," running from 1940 - 1972; article, Among Ourselves, 5/1960, "Sunday Times Given Attractive New Look"; 3-pp. of material from Los Angeles Sunday Times of 12/5/1897, including the cover of the "Illustrated Magazine Section"; 2-pp. "Fact sheet" on Voices section (start-up was 9/1992) including bio info for editors Judy Dugan and Dean Wakefield, and description of features appearing in the section; 2-pp. "fact sheet" for City Times section (start-up 1992), including general description and brief professional bios on the entire staff of the section; 2-pp. chronology of "LAT Sunday Supplements," by Craig St. Clair (1991).
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4 items. Material includes: tear sheet, a brief from ADWEEK/West, 11/16/1981, on LAT joining with CompuServe in a "test program in which highlights (from LAT) are programmed for access by home computer users" (program partner was CompuServe); 1-pp. (undated), headed "Famous columnists," lists Charles Lummis, Harry Carr, Bill Henry, Ed Ainsworth and Kyle Palmer; Front page announcement, 10/29/1961, "* noted columnists join Sunday Times feature parade"; copy of The Wine Investor, 1/18/1988, article, "L.A. Times labors mightily and produces a...Danberger?" (article is very critical of LAT and their selection of new wine columnist, Dan Berger.
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Approx. 20 items. Materials include: article copy, Among Ourselves, 4/1960, "Times, Mirror news libraries are key information centers"; 1-pp., copied from a history of LAT, the writer seems to be Harrison Gray Otis, because, in referring to the aftermath of the 1910 explosion and fire at LAT, the text reads, "I have been gradually collecting books...for a reference library, and...am keeping them at 'The Bivouac' [Otis's home on Wilshire Blvd.], (rather than) the temporary editorial rooms of The Times."; 3-pp. memo, 2/23/1954, "Defendant's pre-trial memorandum - The Times-Mirror Co. vs. U.S. of America"; 46-pp. spiral-bound report, "Editorial Library - User Survey," by Cecily J. Surace, 11/1980; 19-pp. report by graduate students in library / information science (Livia Di Mare/Glenn Johnson-Grau) on the Edit. Lib., 1992, recounting the history, services, resources, and research practices, and describing departments within the library; articles on the library from AO, 1927, 1976; info on LAT database's availability on Nexis; 11-pp. booklet, 12/1982, "Guide to the (LAT) Editorial Library"; article copy, CD-ROM Professional (mag), "Searching Los Angeles Times DIALOG OnDisc: The Times Editorial Library Experience," by Dorothy Ingebretsen and Steven Tice; plus assorted brief reports on aspects of the library.
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9 items. Materials include: reprint of LAT front page, 2/25/1942, "EXTRA! L.A. AREA RAIDED!"; copy of brief from L.A. Express, 5/20/1906, critical of H.G. Otis and LAT; 1-pp. chronology, "Midwinter and other special numbers" - 1885 - 1898;clips from AO, 1928; copy of complete Midwinter Number, 1/1/1900; 2-pp. memo, dated 10/4/1961, about "demise" of the Midwinter Number, and start-up, "early next year," of feature to be called "Outlook & Review," - "it will concern itself with business and financial conditions in the Pacific Southwest"; memo dated 12/18/1961, on upcoming January 2 "Tournament of Roses Edition"; undated Editorial, "To our Eastern 'Midwinter' readers"; copy of article from News Chronicle (Thousand Oaks) 3/27/1974, byline Bob Baker, "Yesterday via old newspaper."
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1 item. 3-pp. transcript of Radio TV Reports, Inc., from a KNBC-tv "Sunday" (news) program of 7/8/1973. Kelly Lange and Tom Snyder interview of Robert Thorn, an official of the Atomic Energy Commission, dealing in part with AEC defense against allegations made in LAT article by Lee Dye.
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