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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
2 items: 11-pp. transcript of interview - "Taping with Mrs. Fletcher Bowron," 3/12/1975 ; 1-pp. letter, 11/12/1976, to "Lois" (Markwith) from Albine Bowron (widow of Mayor Fletcher Bowron), which she attached to some other materials she was sending in to Los Angeles Times historian.
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1 item: copy of Wall St. Journal brief, 5/17/1967, "Who's News," reading "F. Daniel Frost, a senior partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, was named a director of (Times Mirror Co.)."
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Two letter of correspondence, regarding ideas for the Los Angeles Times centennial, between W. Stan Gordon and Otis Chandler. Also in this is a letter from Gordon to Lois Markwith and a note from Markwith to Otis Chandler, Tom Johnson, Bill Thomas and Gordon Phillips.
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8 items: letter, 9/19/1967, to Bassett from Walter Annenberg (publisher, ambassador) praising editorial cartoonist Paul Conrad ; 4/29/1969, Bassett to Douglas T. Moore, responding to complaint about a specific Conrad cartoon ; letter, 5/17/1969, to Bassett from Douglas T. Moore, critical of Conrad and LAT and attached handwritten letter, 4/21/1969, from Moore to Franklin Murphy (Chair, TM Board) ; letter, 6/2/1970, from Bassett to Allen Mansfield (Pacific Western Securities), responding to Mansfield's criticism of Conrad cartoons and attached letter from Mansfield to Frank Haven, Managing Editor, LAT, attached are two Conrad cartoons about Nixon.
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4 items. Examples of Spanish-language material in LAT - 1922, 1932,1933. Alternately titled "The World's News in Spanish" and "Noticias en Espanol." Notes by Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, attached to two of the copies.
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2 items: cover letter with autobiography, from Tennyson to Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, 12/14/1983; 83-pp. manuscript (plus 14-pp. Addendum), "An expose' of newspapering -- really a homespun autobiography..." titled, The Prevailing Spirit, by A. Tennyson.
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