Manuscripts
Chronological File - May
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Chronological File - June
Manuscripts
Approx. 85 items. Letters and memos. Selected addressees and subjects: student unrest in USA and worldwide: Kirk Polking, Editor of Writer's Digest; Harvey Wheeler, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions; many letters to readers, both pleased and displeased; discussion with Arthur Laro, Exec. VP of the Syndicate that provided "Dick Tracy," on the virtues and faults of the comic strip; positive reaction to Jim Murray's column on RFK assassination; Israeli Ambassador Rabin coming to LAT for off-the-record discussions; etc.
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Chronological File - April
Manuscripts
Approx. 70 items. Letters, memos. Partial list of addressees and subjects: college board meeting; outside writing and television appearances by staffers; Mervin Field, Field Research; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Memphis riot; Panama reportage of Ruben Salazar; Vietnam war; to Walter Annenberg on Joyce Haber; Al Neuharth (Gannett Newspapers); John J. Goldman, LAT NY Bureau; MLK assassination; etc.
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Chronological File - May
Manuscripts
Approx. 80 items. Letters and memos. Subjects include: renewal (with United Feature Syndicate) of comic strip "Peanuts"; business/social letter to Harry Brand of 20th Century Fox Film Corp. (5/9/1969; reactions to writer Eric Hoffer; black reporters and editors (5/12/1969); business/social letter to George C.S. Benson, Pres., Claremont Men's College; to Celia Zager, Exec. Dir. Fair Housing Council of the SFV; to Edmonde Haddad, KPOL-radio; to Kanji Takasugi, Consul Gen. of Japan in L.A.; to J.G. McEntyre, Consul Gen. of Canada in L.A.; to Raul Gonzalez Galarza, Consul Gen. of Mexico in L.A.; response to a reader who told Williams which comic strips she liked AND had given some kind of suggestion related to both William Buckley and editorial cartoonist Conrad; to John Anson Ford; another defense of Conrad as "serving a useful [social] purpose; to David Packard, Asst. Sec. of Defense (5/29/1969); assures reader (5/29/1969) that LAT would support Yorty, Reagan and Nixon, or any official, "when we agree with what they have proposed"; etc.
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Chronological File - May
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Approx. 85 items. Letters, memos. Subjects and correspondents include: (5/19/'71) NBW memo to Jim Bellows - "I don't think Ellen Peck, Margo or Erma Bomback make much of an impression in (LAT)...I doubt this kind of chatty femininity ever will"; (5/12/'71) 3-pp. letter to Charles Young, Chancellor, UCLA, "i want to argue...for a Dept. of Communications, embracing aspects of...printed and electronic journalism" ; memo to Frank Haven on "reviv(ing) the idea of media coverage" on financial aspects of TV and radio"; letter to disgruntled reader, 5/11, listing instances in which LAT backed Nixon Admin ; (5/11) letter to J. Edward Murray of Arizona Republic on ASNE issues; (5/7/'71) the flap over nutritionist Frederick Stare; letter to Edward Carter, Pres., Broadway-Hale Stores, a UC Regent; a higher ratio of notes to personal friends, due possibly to the fact that NBW was to retire in August; (5/5) letter thanking William Buckley, Jr., for dinner at his home; (5/4/'71) personal investments may compromise reporting or editing duties at LAT (to Haven, Cotliar, etc.; (5/27) letter to a Mrs. Trent on X-rated films, etc. ; 2-pp. memo on West magazine; letter to Sen. Harold Hughes in DC; letter to Julian Nava, Pres., L.A. Board of Education; to Judge William Palmer, L.A. County Superior Court.
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Chronological File - November
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Approx. 60 items. Letters and memos. Subjects include: addressed concerns that LAT had dropped "Wizard of Id"--it had not; letter to entertainer Steve Allen on fundraising for cancer research; more analysis (11/26/1968) on West magazine; letter to Lewis Barrett of USC School of Journalism; more give and take on merits of various comic strips; possibility of Millie Younger, wife of District Attorney Evelle Younger, writing book reviews under a pen name; defense of cartoonist Feiffer, i.e. "social critics are seldom very cautious"; UPI rate increase--judged to be justified; discussion of William/Bill Drummond's ("a young Negro reporter") desire to study on his own time for a Ph.D in economics; one notepad sheet of penciled notes on paper printed with "Craig St. Clair"; etc.
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Chronological File - May
Manuscripts
Approx. 60 items. Subjects include:newsprint reclamation; more "Conrad serves a useful purpose" letters; outcome and comments on Peggy Harford lawsuit against LAT (5/8/1970); explanation to reader of what a Conrad cartoon meant, which showed Nixon baring his stomach (5/7/1970); letters responding to Westridge (all-girl school in Pasadena) students on topic of pollution; letter telling a Little League official from SF Valley that Paul Conrad was a Little League official in Palos Verdes; (5/6/1970) "West and Home" [magazines] are over budget" - followed by details; (5/5/1970) letter to John Veneman, HEW Undersecretary; letter to Chester Gould, "Dick Tracy" cartoonist, after LAT canceled the strip; letter to Herbert Brucker of Stanford on proposed Ethics Committee for American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE), 5/4/1970.
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