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McCulloch, Frank
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McCulloch, Frank
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"Thirteen pieces of correspondence. Five pieces, in regards to Frank McCulloch's possible rehiring, were originally in a folder marked "restricted." These are correspondence between Otis Chandler, Frank McCulloch and Freddie [Frederica T. Miller.] Two letters regarding McCulloch taking the position. Four letters are regarding McCulloch being in town and meeting up with Chandler. The last two letters are correspondence between Frank McCulloch and Otis Chandler about a missed opportunity to meet in person. "
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McCulloch, Frank
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2 items: multi-page article copy (publication name not found), "Will the West take over?" by Frank McCulloch, on potential "cultural, political and scientific (shift of) leadership" to the West Coast ; article copy, Sacramento Bee, 9/14/1975, "Story of a Story," on The Bee's staff coverage of Gerald Ford assassination attempt. McCulloch was on the Bee staff at the time.
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Financial Section (Editorial)
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Approx. 15 items. Subjects include: letter to Otis Chandler from California Savings and Loan League exec. VP.; investors' forum; content of Financial pages (memo to Bob Nichols from Williams); reorganization of Financial; okay from Williams to Frank McCulloch to pick up a financial wire service from AP;
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Editorial Objectives
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Approx. 40 items. Memos and other material related to changes, goals performance plans and objectives for Editorial. Guiding this process were Otis Chandler, Nick Williams, Frank Haven, Frank McCulloch, and others. Also included is the 1/15/1961 article written by Nick Williams on the new Times format.
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Approx. 10 items: stapled packet of three items - two letters (1961) between Josiah Macy (Pan American World Airways) and Norman Chandler's office, plus multi-page list of corporate board affiliations of Norman Chandler ; 3-pp. transcript of "Telephone conversation with Nick Williams, 9/29/1975," in which Bassett asks him about bringing Frank Haven and Frank McCulloch to LAT, their overlapping roles and how they got along ; 10-pp. transcript of "Taping with Frank McCulloch, Editor of the Sacramento Bee, on 9/16/1975" ; duplicate of previous transcript on green paper - both versions have editing markups ; packet of material related to Frederica ("Freddie") Miller, long-time administrative aide to Otis Chandler - 16-pp. transcript of Bassett's interview of her, memo of 10/22/1975 from Miller to Bassett after she reviewed aforementioned transcript, memo of 1/18/1974 from Miller to Jim Chambers on subject of the "Associated Press Election Strategy" ; 27-pp. transcript of "Interview - Mark Murphy," 2/16/1973, an editor with The Oregonian and later LAT - also 1-pp. "Biography from the Los Angeles Times" for Murphy.
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Editorial Staff - Recruiting and Keeping
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6 items. File contains 17 pp. report titled "Tomorrow's Editors: A report on the status of journalism education..." 2 pp. memo headed "Personnel" from Frank McCulloch to Williams (with margin notes) on topic of attracting and keeping talented staffers. A considerable amount of discussion concerning the role of editorial work and the value of staffers educates as journalists. Also a few other memos, including one headed "Ideas on Editorial Recruitment." Undated memo to Otis Chandler notes "Newspapers are now attracting by far the best all-around talent they ever attracted. This used to be a business for showoffs, crackpots and drunks, with an occasional brilliant reporter. It isn't that way now.
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