Manuscripts

Pegler, Westbrook

Description: Approx. 12 items: a collection of letters and one Pegler column transcript. The bulk of the material deals directly with "the discontinuance of Westbrook Pegler's column in the Times..." but there are no letters, as such, to or from Pegler. All the correspondence deals with reaction to Pegler's shift to a new distributor. He had been with the Scripps - Howard syndicate, he joined King Features Syndicate in September 1944.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1944
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Pegler, Westbrook

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items: ih-house correspondence related to Pegler ; flyers and booklets prepared by National Maritime Union of America, criticizing Pegler's writings ; letter copy, 5/25/1943, from Franklin Roosevelt to Joseph Curran, Pres., National Maritime Union ; Notice run in LAT, 9/7/1944, opens "Westbrook Pegler will cease writing for The Times Sept. 9 ... His departure, however, is NOT the result of any disagreement between him and this newspaper," and closes "The Times wishes Mr. Pegler well (the complete notice runs approx. 400 words of explanation). Pegler's attitudes were considered by some to be right-wing, even to the degree that he sympathized with Nazism.

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Employees - Pegler, Westbrook

Manuscripts

1 item: "Notice," run in LAT 9/7/1944, "Westbrook Pegler will cease writing for The Times Sept. 9. (This) is NOT the result of any disagreement between him and this newspaper....The Times wishes Mr. Pegler well."--Norman Chandler

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Los Angeles Times Editorial Policy and Content

Manuscripts

Correspondence, clippings, and other items related to the editorial policy of the Los Angeles Times. Correspondents and subjects include Philip Chandler; Norman Chandler; R.W. Trueblood; L.D. Hotchkiss; William Holden; Harry Carr; Grace Kingsley; Westbrook Pegler; Miles, Marvin; Gilbert espionage; Dick Hyland; L. Frank Baum; Southern Californians Inc.; Charles Owens; Sylvia Weaver; China correspondents; Irvin S. Cobb; and John Anson Ford. File of R. W. Trueblood, L. D. Hotchkiss, and William Holden.

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Buchwald, Art

Manuscripts

8 items - letters, memos and one column. Notable names and items include: Anthony Day ; Art Buchwald ; William F. Thomas ; Ed Grade (LAT Syndicate manager). Some of the letters reflect Buchwald's dissatisfaction with the placement and staggered appearances of his columns in LAT.

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Correspondence and writings

Manuscripts

Approx. 40 items - letters and related material. Notable names and items include: Robert D. Haas (Chair., Levi Strauss & Co.) ; letter from LAT Syndicate to author Tom Clancy about doing a column (Clancy was very hot author starting in the 1980s) ; with letter dated 8/18/1989, from Day to John Allswang, materials related to a plagiarism charge by Allswang ; packet of materials (6/1989) related to proposed column by Jesse Jackson ; materials related to Art Seidenbaum's role with the Editorial Pages ; various submissions to the Editorial Page ; more.

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Editorial Auditor

Manuscripts

6 items. Memos regarding hiring, promotions or pay for Ray Kendall (music staff), Ayn Rand, William Frye, Hall Syndicate (for Feiffer), the Home Line column, Natl. Newspaper Syndicate's "Josephine" comic.

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