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Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
James Boswell was director of Human Resources at Times Mirror during the 1980s. His files are in four sub-series. The first, chronological files, consists of correspondence and other materials arranged chronologically by month and date. The second, correspondence, consists of memoranda and notes arranged by person, including correspondence to and from James Boswell. There may be some duplication with items in the Chronological Files. The third sub-series, speeches, is organized alphabetically by group, then alphabetically by speech. It includes drafts, final copies with slide cues, and correspondence related to the group or the speech itself. The final sub-series, subject files, is organized alphabetically by subject. Subjects include the Pfaffinger Foundation, unions, budgets, and organizations. Date range is 1985-1991.
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7 items: 12-pp. speech text, "The state of the university," a commencement address by Chancellor Murphy at UCLA, 6/14/1968; 4-pp. text, headed "Shareholder Meeting, 1969," and "Following Dr. Murphy's talk" (there was a question and answer session); booklet, text of an address in 1971 to the 25th National Conference of the American Society of Corporate Secretaries, titled "Over 50 looks at under 30"; 6-pp. transcript of "Address to Shareholders" at TM Annual Meeting, 5/26/1976; 38-pp. transcript of Dr. Murphy's speech at Times Mirror Luncheon, 3/27/1979 (incl. intro by Ellen Sacher of Paine Webber, et al.), with handwritten notes in pencil making changes; 9-pp. text headed "Draft #3 [Franklin D. Murphy speech, 1980] to TM meeting; 3-pp. stapled, no date, no heading, and pages are numbered 4 o 6;booklet, "Pluralism...Hallmark of American Society," being "Remarks by Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, Chairman of the Board, Times Mirror," upon the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Richard Gilman as president of Occidental College; 3-pp. reprint from Financial Executive, 10/1975, "Government, education and the economy," by Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, Chairman and CEO of The Times Mirror Co.
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Approx. 12 items. Speech transcripts on various subjects (some duplicates): 1988 at California Newspaper Publishers Association (ANPA)., "The human resources challenge in the year 2010" ; 1984 at ANPA, "Communications - a two-way street" ; ANPA Operations Management Conference, Las Vegas, 1983, Performance appraisal in a changing environment" ; Performance appraisal and productivity" ; ANPA, 1990, "Law Enforcement Resources" ; ANPA Labor & Personnel Relations Conference, 1988, on "building and maintaining talented newsrooms" ; related letters and memos.
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5 items: memos and other correspondence, plus transcript of a "Publishers' Panel" discussion, conducted at the INPA / West convention in Newport Beach, 10/8/1984; 10-pp. transcript of speech manuscript of Wright at the Production Supervisors Awards Dinners, 2/1985, cover letter and 2-pp. speech manuscript for Wright to present at Centennial Dinner for the 2nd Baptist Church, 2/22/1985 (he was accepting an award for LAT), plus related correspondence;Management Bulletin, 9/4/1990, related material, same date, on Wright is stapled behind this; LAT article copy, 9/5/1990, "Schlosberg to run eastern papers for Times Mirror," which contains material on Wright deep in the story.
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5 items: 11-pp. script headed "Don Maldonado 1984 Budget Report," 11/4/1983 ; 16-pp. script headed "Don Clark 1984 Budget Report," 11/4/1983 ; 13-pp. script headed "Bert Tiffany 1984 Budget Report," 11/4/1984 ; 9-pp. script headed "Vance Stickell 1984 Budget Report," 11/4/1983 ; 12-pp. script headed "Budget Narrative / Editorial Department," 11/4/1983 ; multi-page lists and charts headed 1984 ABC Publishers Statement Comparisons."
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1-sheet list, "Practical Results of Changing Values" ; 24-pp. speech manuscript, (Jim Boswell) "Avoiding the pitfalls of discrimination through performance appraisal," transcripts of "Performance Appraisal and Productivity" and "Performance Appraisal: Does it have a place in today's management environment?" Also, printed copy of "Making the Performance Appraisal Work" from the series "Studies in Employee Relations."
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