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
2 items: LAT obit clip, 9/2/1986, "Edwin (Ted) Weegar, Asst. Managing Editor of Times, dies" (65); 2-pp. News from the Los Angeles Times, 9/2/1986, slightly modified version of previous obit.
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8 items: Among Ourselves clip, ca. 1945, a brief on Park's career at LAT; typed note, stamped 8/13/1957, presumably from Park, asks for a correction to "my obituary," concerning info about his son, Don Paul Park: 2 copies of Indianapolis News article ("Ringside in Hoosierland") on Park, 10/27/1969 (bio sheet dated 1952 stapled to one of them; LAT obit copy, 12/17/1969, "Joseph Park, ex-labor editor of Times, dies"; clip of letter to editor in memory of Park and dupe of 1952 bio sheet together in plastic sleeve.
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4 items: 5-pp. bio packet, incl. photos, copies of clips by and about Scheuer, dated 3/2/1950; 2-pp. bio info, headed "Philip K. Scheuer - Assistant Editor, Drama Department," undated, written in first-person;LAT obit tear sheet, 2/19/1985, "Philip Scheuer, ex-Times film critic, dies"; LAT tear sheet, 2/23/1985, "Scheuer...aisle seat on history" (an appreciation by Charles Champlin).
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3 items: single-sheet LAT bio headed "Edwin Schallert - Editor, Drama Dept."; 5-pp. collection of bio info. incl. photo, more LAT bio material and a segment headed, "Color biography for KTTV"; LAT obit, 9/29/1968, "Ex-Times drama critic Edwin Schallert dies."
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5 items: LAT article copy, 3/31/1959, "Taylor Trumbo new managing Editor of Times"; 8-pp. letter from Trueblood to Robert Gottlieb (who was writing Thinking Big, the Story of the Los Angeles Times...) containing memories of his years with LAT; article copy, (Honolulu) Star-Bulletin & Advertiser, 6/20/1982, "Road to Siberia led to Paradise, warm memories" on Trueblood's life experiences; LAT obit clip, "Georgia Fifield, ex-radio actress" (T's wife); LAT obit copy, "Z.T. Trumbo, ex-managing Editor of The Times, dies at 85."
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Approx. 15 items: collection of news clip copies, news releases, a "top ten news stories" list for 1960, many of them relating to Frank Haven ; 8-pp. speech transcript, "New roles and hazards for today's newspaper," "1969" is written in at top margin of pp. 1 - presumably Haven delivered this speech somewhere that year ; single sheet, "Frank P. Haven - biography," 3/20/1974 ; 15-pp. transcript, "This is a taping with Frank Haven, Managing Editor of The Times, on 11/3/(19)74" - subjects include: Haven describes his first weeks on the job by saying "the paper was not all I had dreamed it would be," which is rare negativity in these interviews ; Haven's memories of Pearl Harbor attack & coverage ; more memories. 19-pp. transcript, "This is a second taping with Frank Haven...(1/23/1975). Subjects include: by mid-1960s Los Angeles Times had made great strides in foreign coverage but needed to beef up local "beats" ; memories of Watts riot coverage (pp. 5) ; improving an often "dull and insular" paper of the 1950s (pp. 9) ; NOTE - this transcript has a great amount of cross-outs and editing marks all over it ; 18-pp. speech text, opening with "Thank you, Mrs. Johnstone," n.d., no other info.
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