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  Employees - Greenburg, Carl

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  2 items: program for Carl Greenberg's retirement dinner in 1973 (guests included Otis Chandler, former Gov. Edmund G. Brown, Gov. Ronald Reagan, Mayor Tom Bradley, Bob Hope, several senators, etc.; LAT clip, 11/14/1984, "Retired Times political writer Greenberg dies."

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  Additional Comments Sheets

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  Cover page reads "Additional comments, Times Editorial, secretaries, copy boys, & gen. office - artists, copyreaders, photographers, reporters & writers, all other. 1951." Typed comments likely culled from employee surveys.

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  From Readers

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  Seven letters comprising 23 pages, pertaining to reader's correspondence. Some of the topics include Summer Camp fund, Ronald Reagan, Editorial policy on request for sponsors for immigration and missing persons.

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  Editorial Cartoons

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  Approx. 12 items. Includes a "Confidential Questionnaire for Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Also in the file are some letters to the Editor. One handwritten letter is an angry response to Times' coverage of Governor Reagan, alleging it to be "totally unfair and unjustified," and referring to Publisher Otis Chandler as "the young character running the Times." (Mr. Chandler was 40 at the time) In the same time frame, 1967, Walter Annenberg sent a note to James Bassett calling cartoonist Conrad--the target of much controversy--"talented," and expressing "enthusiastic admiration" for him. Correspondence discussing editorial cartoons and readership in more general terms.

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  Editorial Reference Files

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  Material from Ralph W. Trueblood, Managing Editor from 1926 to 1934, William Holden, Assistant Managing Editor from 1934 to 1950, and L.D. Hotchkiss, Managing Editor, Editor and Editor-in-Chief between 1934 and 1958 were combined to form this collection of editorial background material. Includes documents on a wide range of topics of interest to the editorial staff. Much of it is correspondence and memoranda from Harry Chandler and includes his comments. The collection is arranged alphabetically by either correspondent or subject. Date range is 1905-1959; bulk of the material is dated 1930-1960.

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  Departments - Editorial - Editorial Library - Newsletters

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  Approx. 70 items: various versions, dated between 1979 and 1993, of a newsletter put out by the Editorial Library. It was headed with several different names over the years, including Information Notes, Editorial Library Information Notes, Editorial Library - New Library Materials, Flash - from Editorial Library, and New Resources - Los Angeles Times Editorial Library. The last two included bibliographic cites for newly acquired books and other materials.

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