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    Los Angeles Times - Washington Post News Service

    Manuscripts

    Approx. 35 items. Subjects include: "wire-sharing" with AP; writer Nicholas von Hoffman; proposed terms of agreement with Agence France Presse and other materials; Executive Committee Meeting minutes (4/21/1972); results of LAT-WPost News Service questionnaire on client usage of various features and request for feedback on the service; 4-pp. report to Bill Thomas and Ben Bradlee headed :Private and Confidential," about the news service operation in Europe; writer David Broder; Executive Committee Meeting minutes (11/10/1972 & 12/7/1972); information on the finalized agreement between Agence France Presse and LAT-WP News Service; etc.

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    Los Angeles Times - Washington Post News Service

    Manuscripts

    Approx. 75 items. Subject include: correspondence, meeting minutes and reports sent to members of the Executive Committee; a copy of the Memorandum of Agreement (from 1962) when the News Service was set up; 2-pp. list of clients in United States, Canada, & "Outside North America" (no date on the item); further material on Exec Comm. meetings and operations of the News Service; etc.

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    Manuscripts

    Approx. 10 items: several letters exchanged between Bassett and Robert Donovan ; 2-pp. (yellow) of "Questions for Bob Donovan" ; 13-pp. of responses to previous questions, Donovan to Bassett, 9/1975 ; newspaper and magazine article copies about Donovan ; single-sheet "Biography from the Los Angeles Times" for Donovan, n.d. ; 24-pp. transcript of interview, by Bassett, of Donald Douglas, Sr., 1/8/1973 ; 14-pp. transcript of - "...taping with Waldo Drake," 4/26/1973, who started on Los Angeles Times in 1922 on the waterfront "beat" and later became a foreign correspondent ; 6-pp. transcript of "conversation with Mrs. Wilma Drake, former Administrative Asst. to Mr. Norman Chandler." Original correspondence between Donald Douglas and Bassett removed from Autograph File and returned to Bassett files.

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    Los Angeles Times - Washington Post News Service

    Manuscripts

    Approx. 25 items. Subjects include: letters to/from Washington Post's Katherine Graham and Bee Bradlee; joint distribution announced for news services of NY Times, Chicago Daily News and Chicago Sun-Times; Exec. Comm. meeting minutes for April 16, 1971; report on News Service rates; salary list for News Service; 1972 annual budget; report on "amalgamating our service in Europe with the Guardian and/or Financial Times; Exec. Comm. meeting minutes for Nov. 8,1971; other material on News Service operations.

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    Times - Post News Service

    Manuscripts

    "Approx. 25 items: memos, letters and reports related to the Times-Post News Service. Much of the correspondence involves Ben Bradlee, Post Editor, and Robert Lobdell or William Thomas of Los Angeles Times. Katherine Graham and David Frost are also among the addressees. "

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    Times - Post News Service (1 of 2)

    Manuscripts

    Approx. 30 items: memos, letters and reports related to the Times-Post News Service. Some correspondence with Ben Bradlee, Washington Post Editor. Split into two folders.

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