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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
Approx. 30 items: memos, letters, transcripts, other material related to LAT Publisher Tom Johnson. Included: approx. 20-pp. transcript of "Otis Chandler and Tom Johnson (on panel with others) at Wash. Buro," 4/11/1985 ; copy, 3-pp. article from New West, 12/5/1977, "Crown prince of the Press" ; copy, LAT article, 3/6/1980, "Tom Johnson to be Publisher of The Times" ; packet of 1979 reports headed "New systems and plans and their effect on manning" ; other reports.
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Approx. 95 items - speeches, letters, memos, handwritten notes, clippings and other material. Notable names and items include: Tom Johnson ; Vance Stickell ; 17-pp. speech transcript, "For delivery on...(4/21/1985), Tokyo...Remarks of W. Tom Johnson...before the Trilateral Commission" ; Executive Incentive Group ; 12-pp. article copied from Los Angeles (mag), 11/1981, "The Gray Lady of Spring Street hits 100" ; memo, 6/12/1981, in which Stickell offers advice to Tom Johnson for his upcoming "Rotary Speech" ; product innovations ; cost reductions ; the folder has a very wide range of subject matter.
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1 item: 5-pp. transcript of interview of Mayor Tom Bradley by James Bassett, 7/11/1977.
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Approx. 45 items: notes, letters, memos, reports and clips related to the LAT Washington Bureau. Includes: material on the operations, reorganization, and profile of the bureau ; 7-pp. article copied from WJR (Washington Journalism Review), 12/1983, on Jack Nelson, Bureau Chief ; lease agreement (1978) for the Washington Bureau's offices ; more.
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Approx. 40 items. Letters and memos. Much of the material in the file involves the operation and activities of the Washington Bureau, reflected in a series of letters between Nick Williams and Robert Hartmann, bureau chief. Other specific subjects: LAT staffers to be making visits to DC; 2-pp. "Summary of 1957 Activities of the Times Washington Bureau"; contracts for Washington Capital News Service; Nixon goodwill tour of Europe, 1957; chart with breakdown for years 1953 - 1956 on Wash Bureau "Stories Filed," "Subjects Covered (i.e. Executive Branch, Congress, Misc.); multi-page report headed "MEMO for Mr. Hotchkiss--Times Washington Bureau," which outlines the operations of DC Bureau in theory and practice; letters between Editor L.D. Hotchkiss and Hartmann; etc.
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Approx. 60 items - memos, reports, speeches and articles on a wide range of subjects. Notable names and items include: Tom Johnson ; speech by Robert Erburu (cover sheet dated 12/20/1985), "Paine Webber Outlook on the Media Conference," presented 12/10/1985 in New York ; 3-pp. cover memo, 3/8/1983, attached to 25-pp. booklet, Newspaper Marketing - a time for reappraisal?" by Paul S. Hirt (Chicago Sun-Times) ; 13-pp. speech transcript, remarks by Tom Johnson to the Bakersfield Rotary, 6/17/1982 ; 5-pp. speech transcript, 3/18/1982, "remarks Tom Johnson made to a large group of security analysts today" ; Vance Stickell ; 13-pp. packet, 7/27/1977, "Tom Johnson Orientation" (there are other, shorter versions of this item).
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