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San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
6 items. Subjects include: Philip Chandler letter to Williams questioning "why we publish certain things" and closing with "the last thing I want to see is a change in [LAT] policy from conservatism to liberalism."; additional memos and letters on the subject of whose political and social thought should be in the pages of LAT and whose should not.
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Approx. 25 items: typed or written questions posed by employees through the FYI program. Many are basically complaints along the lines of "I don't like this situation. Why did LAT do this?" A smaller number praise the newspaper.
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2 items: 56-pp. transcript of interview by Marshall Berges with Susan Diamond, 6/9/1980 ; 44-pp. transcript of same interview with some notations and corrections [?], also dated 6/9/1980. Subjects include: Diamond describes the type of articles she writes, her writing routine and methods ; her goal - "to write to the person who is not reading the Wall St. Journal and might not understand it (if they did)" ; memories of her childhood and family group ; "the most athletic thing (the family) did was go for picnics on the river bank -- with books" (p. 11) ; English major at Radcliffe ; University of Iowa for Masters ; Brandeis University for Ph. D. - she did not complete it ; joins New Yorker (p. 22) ; disliked New York, zeroed in on Los Angeles to relocate to - she felt Los Angeles was where everything was happening (p. 28) ; freelance work with Business Week, Time, People and Money magazine ; her strengths and weaknesses as a journalist (p. 31 +) ; her career as a writer of long feature stories, which often don't fit a daily newspaper format ; her thoughts on writing long for readers who often don't have time for "long" ; the (painful) editing process ; more.
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Approx. 130 items: letters, clips and reports to and from William F. Thomas. Includes letters from Thomas to readers about the fact that LAT sponsored no "pen pal" club, did not publish reader poetry, etc.
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Manuscripts
Four items comprising four pages pertaining to Susan Stocking, containing letters and a memo.
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