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Departments - Editorial - Special Editions
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Departments - Editorial - Lifestyle Section
Manuscripts
Approx. 25 items. Materials include: copied examples of LAT "Society" page, 1910 - 1940 (at least one prior to 1900); 1-pp. chronology which opens, "Here's a history of The Times "features" sections..."; clip, Among Ourselves, 10/1976, YOU debuts in The Times; 6-pp. typed, [by Nick B. Williams? - 1961] analysis of progress of "Family" section; 3-pp. memo, Dick Dunkel to Nick Williams, 10/13/1961, subject "Family Section Fashions; clip from Los Angeles magazine, ?/1966, "The new girls of Section IV," on Maggie Bellows and Joyce Haber taking on re-vamp of 'Section IV'"; copy of brief, 6/4/1994, Editor & Publisher, "(LAT) improves its lifestyle section"; analysis of LAT "women's pages" over the decades from various sources, including "25 Years of women's pages in L.A.," by academic Dorothy Stotsenberg (UCLA); other related memos.
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Departments - Editorial - Columnists
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4 items. Material includes: tear sheet, a brief from ADWEEK/West, 11/16/1981, on LAT joining with CompuServe in a "test program in which highlights (from LAT) are programmed for access by home computer users" (program partner was CompuServe); 1-pp. (undated), headed "Famous columnists," lists Charles Lummis, Harry Carr, Bill Henry, Ed Ainsworth and Kyle Palmer; Front page announcement, 10/29/1961, "* noted columnists join Sunday Times feature parade"; copy of The Wine Investor, 1/18/1988, article, "L.A. Times labors mightily and produces a...Danberger?" (article is very critical of LAT and their selection of new wine columnist, Dan Berger.
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Departments - Information Systems
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Approx. 12 items. Materials include: memo, 3/25/1977, reading, in part, "Effective today, the name of the Data Processing Department has been changed to Information Systems Department"; two LAT brochures, "Information Systems," (3/1978); memo, 9/17/1975, "Organizational Changes" (on name changes w/i Systems & Programming department; tabloid-sized issue, 12/6/1975, The Pac-Times Presenter, a joint publication of Pacific Telephone and LAT, describing the development of "a complete telecommunications system" by PacTel for LAT; article, Among Ourselves, 12/1949 (copy), "Tabulating Department's Mechanical Brains know all the answers"; article copy, 10/1977, Among Ourselves, "New Computer Center in Service"; booklet, 24-pp., 11/1961, The Corner Cut, L.A. Chapter National Machine Accountants Association, lead article, "History in Headlines," on LAT; Information Systems bulletin, 3-pp., 6/13/1989, "Personal Computer Security," 10-pp. sheaf, "Information Systems Bulletin--In-house personal computer software training"; 2-pp. memo, "Communications Services," 9/11/1990; memo, 11/7/1990, "Special Services Mail."
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Departments - Editorial - Editorial Library
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Approx. 20 items. Materials include: article copy, Among Ourselves, 4/1960, "Times, Mirror news libraries are key information centers"; 1-pp., copied from a history of LAT, the writer seems to be Harrison Gray Otis, because, in referring to the aftermath of the 1910 explosion and fire at LAT, the text reads, "I have been gradually collecting books...for a reference library, and...am keeping them at 'The Bivouac' [Otis's home on Wilshire Blvd.], (rather than) the temporary editorial rooms of The Times."; 3-pp. memo, 2/23/1954, "Defendant's pre-trial memorandum - The Times-Mirror Co. vs. U.S. of America"; 46-pp. spiral-bound report, "Editorial Library - User Survey," by Cecily J. Surace, 11/1980; 19-pp. report by graduate students in library / information science (Livia Di Mare/Glenn Johnson-Grau) on the Edit. Lib., 1992, recounting the history, services, resources, and research practices, and describing departments within the library; articles on the library from AO, 1927, 1976; info on LAT database's availability on Nexis; 11-pp. booklet, 12/1982, "Guide to the (LAT) Editorial Library"; article copy, CD-ROM Professional (mag), "Searching Los Angeles Times DIALOG OnDisc: The Times Editorial Library Experience," by Dorothy Ingebretsen and Steven Tice; plus assorted brief reports on aspects of the library.
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Departments - Editorial - Extra Editions
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2 items: 2-pp. list of "Los Angeles Times Extra Editions" (Note included - "This is not necessarily a complete list), 2/1884 - 1/1986, with 31 "Extra" (banner) headlines over a period of 102 years, for example, December 8, 1941, "IT'S WAR!"; graphic example (2 cps), "L.A. AREA RAIDED!," 2/25/1942 - Jap Planes Peril Santa Monica, Seal Beach..."
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Departments - Editorial - Book Review Section
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Approx. 15 items: brief, Editor & Publisher, 6/6/1970, "L.A. Times adds tab devoted to books"; form letter from Digby Diehl, 3/1977, with 5-pp. "Reviewer's Guide" for submissions to LAT Book Review;LAT article,12/11/1985, by David Shaw, "Reviewing Books-it's haphazard" (2 other articles in Shaw series on book review sections, one on NYT, the other on Wash. Post; sampling of Pg. 1 of LAT Book Review; related articles.
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