Opening Hours
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
Approx. 75 items. Letters (friendly and adversarial), memos, newspaper clippings. Included are letters from Williams to the American Press Institute, the New York Times (Turner Catledge), Los Angeles County Young Republicans, Pitzer College (Mary Ann Callan), Mrs. Otis ("Missy") Chandler, columnist Paul Coates, Dr. Clifford B. Cherry (wrote to object to reporting of his wife's suicide) etc. Subjects include Times' reportage, the new movie ratings system (1968), the Clean Air Council, etc.
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Approx. 11 items: memos related to visits by the Romanian ambassador and a delegation, the Philippine ambassador, "four top ranking...Foreign Service officers," the ambassadors of Indonesia, New Zealand and Japan, sixteen "Russian [Soviet] newspapermen (and women)" and a letter to Bassett from Robert J. Myers (Publisher, New Republic) ; 2-pp. memo, 9/3/1970, to Nick Williams from Freddie Miller on the subject of "Visiting firemen." "Firemen" seems to be a code word since the list contains dates and names of visiting United States political and military leaders and foreign VIPs such as ambassadors and ministers of foreign nations.
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Approx. 15 items, letters, article copies and related material. Notable names and items include: Anthony Day, Lowell Ponte and Nick B. Williams.
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Three letters of correspondence and between Gabriel Alarcon, Jr. and Otis Chandler. Also in this folder is a photograph from Alarcon to Chandler which pictures Chandler, the former owner of El Universal Newspaper and Fulton Freeman, the former Ambassador of the United States to Mexico (from 1964-69)
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Approx. 40 items. Memos, letters, newspaper clippings. Subjects include: Proposition A (1959); objections to Moiseyev Dancers' appearance at Shrine Auditorium; racial discrimination by some Long Beach State College sororities; alleged "libelous" statements about Rep. James Utt by columnist Paul Coates; exchange of letters between Williams and Sterling Lord Agency regarding series of 10 columns by James Simon Kunen, described by Lord as "hitchhiking revolutionary bard and author of The Strawberry Statement; departure of Fay Hammond, arrival of new Fashion editor Mary Lou Luther; essay by Art Kunkin, Editor/Publisher of the Los Angeles Free Press; exchange of letters with Los Angeles County Commission Against Indecent Literature; etc.
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Approx. 35 items: correspondence between Otis Chandler and business associates (Nick Williams, William F. Thomas, etc. Includes two copies of a 5-pp. "Harry and Marian Otis Chandler Family" (a list of names), 3-pp. "Otis Chandler Biographical Information" from 12/1971.
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