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Banner headlines from 1988-1997
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Extra editions from 1884-1986
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List of Los Angeles Times extra editions with dates and headlines from 1884-1986 (not exhaustive).
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Departments - Editorial - Extra Editions
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2 items: 2-pp. list of "Los Angeles Times Extra Editions" (Note included - "This is not necessarily a complete list), 2/1884 - 1/1986, with 31 "Extra" (banner) headlines over a period of 102 years, for example, December 8, 1941, "IT'S WAR!"; graphic example (2 cps), "L.A. AREA RAIDED!," 2/25/1942 - Jap Planes Peril Santa Monica, Seal Beach..."
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"The History of World War II in Headlines"
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Two sets "The History of World War II as told in HEADLINES OF THE TIMES" (miniature versions of Page One headlines)
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"History in Headlines"
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Three copies of "History in Headlines" booklets from "Our 82nd Year."
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Articles on, 1984 - 1988
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5 items. Articles from: Interior Design, 3/1984, "The Los Angeles Times"; (periodical unknown) "Times vs. Times: Report from L.A."; Advertising Age, 11/30, "How three suburban newspapers have grown..." (headline & article incomplete); tear sheet of Time (mag), 4/30, "The Ten Best U.S. Dailies," which has segment on LAT, plus photocopy of same article. 1 item. Tear sheet of long article from Downtown News, 11/18/1985, "The Los Angeles Times: Heartbeat of the City for 104 years." 6 items. Four articles from L.A. Weekly: 10/3, "Drug Mania: an open letter to L.A. Times staffers"; 10/17, "The L.A. Times Urine Fund," on drug testing at LAT; 11/14, brief on firing of staffer Ron Harris for interview with Essence in which he discussed sexual technique; 10/3, brief on new LAT editor Shelby Coffey. Article from New Republic, 8/11, "And the L.A. Intellectual?", on lack of intellectual life in L.A. Finally, clipping of long letter to LAT with headline, "Likes and Dislikes from a Reader of The Times." 7 items. Two copies (1 tear sheet, 1 photocopy) of Los Angeles (mag) article, 9/1987, "'Gray Lady' at Crossroads" - about LAT. Article from Editor & Publisher, 8/15, "Promotion priorities questioned," on women and a "glass ceiling" at LAT. Brief from Los Angeles, 7/1987, "Half a Rim Shot for the Times?" Another "glass ceiling" brief from L.A. Weekly, 8/7. Finally, Jack Smith essay, "What's News?" from 12/13 Los Angeles Times Magazine. 6 items: Comments by LAT Publisher Tom Johnson on "The Next 25 Years," Los Angeles (mag), 1/1988; Los Angeles, 4/1988, "Real Power [in L.A.]; Avenue Magazine, 10/1988, "Stop the Presses"; Downtown News, 12/12, "N.Y. Times should stay with strengths"; brief from Los Angeles (mag), 12/1988, "Changing Times"; multiple reprints of USA Today article, 12/9, "L.A. Times wraps itself in late news."
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Five-Year Plan - 1984 - 1988
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1 item: approx. 80-pp., "Los Angeles Times Five-year plan, 1984 - 1988."
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