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Shuster, Alvin

Description: 1 item: 55-pp. transcript of interview with Alvin Shuster, Chief Editorial Writer (later Foreign desk editor and other posts) at LAT - interview subjects - his duties in the Editorial Pages (pp. 1 - 3) ; his typical day (pp. 4 - 7) ; his childhood through high school in Washington, DC and employment by NY Times when he finished high school circa 1947 (pp. 11 - 16) ; to Harvard as a Nieman Fellow in 1966, same class as LAT colleague Anthony Day (pp. 19) ; foreign correspondent for NYT (pp. 24 - 28) ; joins LAT ; contrasts NYT and LAT (pp. 34 - 40) ; more memories and thoughts.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1979
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Employees - Shuster, Alvin

Manuscripts

2 items: LAT clip, ca. 1980, "Shuster assistant editor of Times editorial pages"; article copy, 3-pp., IPI Report, 5/1995, "They shoot journalists, don't they."

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1 item: 60-pp. transcript of interview with John Lawrence, Business Editor (also one-time Washington Bureau Chief). Notable names and subjects include: how he preps for the day ; reads NYT and Wall St. Journal for background every day ; planning for a stand-alone Financial Section in LAT (pp. 12) ; childhood and youth in Cleveland (pp. 31 - 33) ; at Wall St. Journal (pp. 35) ; he always felt free at LAT (arriving in 1968) not to worry about what advertisers would think of his reporting ; family life and social life (pp. 55 - 58). Somewhat of a surprise here is that Lawrence is not asked about nor does he mention being jailed in 1972 for making Watergate case judge John Sirica upset.

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Schools

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Approx. 12 items: 7-pp. typed "Notes taken during an interview with Mrs. Jones at her home in Sierra Madre" - 8/18/1925, it appears Jones was a high ranking administrator who first came to the L.A. Public Schools in 1875 ; from LAT, 8/29/1937, "Outline map showing locations of School Sites in Los Angeles City School Districts" ; booklet, History of Los Angeles High School, 1873 - 1938" ; 49-pp. stapled booklet, Pioneer and early public schools of California and of Los Angeles (1948) ; booklet, Public Education in Los Angeles County, California, 3/1952 ; booklet, Los Angeles High School Centennial Celebration (1873 - 1973).

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Weegar, Ted

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1 item: 76-pp. transcript of interview with Ted Weegar, an LAT editor involved with the electronic editing system, etc. Notable names and subjects include: Weegar and interviewer Berges jump around a bit but much of the interview has to do with the electronic editing system ; Cecily Surace comes from RAND to be LAT Library Director and modernizes that department (pp. 18 - 20) ; description of the emerging electronic system of feeding stories between writers, editors and the data bank in the Editorial Library (around pp. 29) ; pagination (pp. 33) ; Weegar's childhood and youth (pp. 35 - 37) ; what led him into journalism (pp. 50) ; Richard Nixon (pp. 52 - 53) ; around 1960, Weegar was chosen to start up the LAT Opinion section (pp. 57 - 59) ; "those early years (with) Otis (as) publisher were terribly fun" (pp. 62 - 63).

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Thomas, William F

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1 item: 42-pp. transcript (pp. 100 - 141) of interview of Bill Thomas (LAT Editor) by Marshall Berges. Notable names and subjects include: Lyndon B. Johnson ; LAT in relation to Times Mirror Corporation and other holdings (pp. 105 - 106) ; memories of backlash over a Robert Scheer article on the Jewish community that was not well received in all quarters (pp. 107 - 110+) ; wide-ranging memories of incidents and people at LAT during the 1960s and 1970s ; Thomas answers the question, "Do we need an editorial page?" (pp. 122 - 124) ; moving Conrad's cartoons to Op Ed (pp. 125 - 126) ; political polls, Mervin Field, etc. (pp. 127 - 129) ; more.

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Seidenbaum, Art

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1 item: 112-pp. transcript of interview with Art Seidenbaum, LAT Book Review Editor (later in Op-Ed). Notable names & subjects include: LAT "Book Review is not subject to the (incestuous) reviewer-author pressure of New York" (pp. 1) ; description of how the BR section operates, who writes reviews and how they are assigned (pp. 2 - 9) ; a Henry Kissinger book (pp. 10 - 12) ; Digby Diehl (pp. 24 - 27) ; Robert Kirsch (pp. 31 - 34) ; childhood, youth and Northwestern Univ. (pp. 45 - 47) ; describes himself as "already an apostate Jew by high school" ; S. describes a career in journalism as the life of "a perpetual graduate student" (pp. 52) ; refers to a "let live ethic" in CA when he arrived in 1959 (pp. 64) ; his relationships to some of the top-tier editors over the years ; more.

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