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Williams, Nick
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Nick B. Williams
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Approx. 65 items: wide range of material to and from Nick Williams from informal notes and squiggles and handwritten personal letters to a 20-pp. report, "Southern California's Water - past, present and future," by Joseph Jensen, Chairman, Board of Directors, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California ; more.
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Lamb, Harold
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Approx. 15 items - letters, memos, reports. Notable names and items include: Ed Ainsworth ; Harold Lamb ; Tehran, Iran ; more.
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Correspondence - Nick Williams
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Approx. 15 items: letters, most from Stickell to Nick B. Williams (long-time LAT top Editor who retired in 1971), and a smaller number originating with Williams. They were clearly both business associates and friends.
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Williams, Nick
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Twenty-one memos of correspondence between Otis Chandler to Nick Williams regarding topics such as the five year outlooks, objectives, sports section, a major goof by Maggie and Jim Bellows, and his disappointment in West Magazine. Also in this folder is a memo from Freddie Miller and a memo to Mrs. Norman Chandler
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Williams, Nick B
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2 items: letter, 1/25/1973, from Nick Williams to Norman Chandler, expressing his admiration of him ; letter, 7/25/1973, Williams to Norman Chandler, on the subject of great American publishers of the mid 20th century. The second letter features Williams' thoughts on Col. McCormick (Chicago Tribune), Henry Luce (Time), the Scripps - Howard Newspapers and The Christian Science Monitor.
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Employees - Williams, Nick B
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Approx. 35 items: in "Tribute to a renown...Editor, Nick B. Williams," at the time of his death, LAT columnist Jack Smith wrote that, "turned the Los Angeles Times from a biased, provincial, Republican newspaper, into one of the country's two or three best"; program booklet for "The Nick B. Williams Luncheon Party," Levy's Grill, 2/20/1959; 3-pp. transcript of speech at Women's Lawyers Club (1959), titled "Court News Policy," on the topic of a free press; selection of Williams' writings for a variety of publications--California Publisher, The Quill, California Parent -Teacher, etc. ;brief copy, Among Ourselves, 7/1948, on W's career, mentioning his fiction writing; single-page bio ; W's tear sheets, 1959 - 1971, from LAT; LAT clip, 10/28/1981, "Ex-Editor of Times receives press award": LAT Editorial, 7/2/1992, "In Memory of Nick B. Williams," which closes, "Nick Williams mark on The Times is indelible." Williams was with LAT for forty years, retiring in 1971, and after that working as a consultant for Otis Chandler.
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