Manuscripts

Chandler, Raymond

Description: 1 item: 30-pp. excerpt (Chpt. 3 - "The Novelist") from Down these mean streets a man must go, by Philip Durham, 1963, a book on Raymond Chandler and his writings.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1963
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Motion Picture Industry - Miscellaneous

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Approx. 40 items. A collection of varied materials on southern California's motion picture industry: Notable items: 49-pp. monograph, ca. 1930, "Amazing career of the Warner Brothers..." by Esther Hamilton ; copied book excerpt, Los Angeles - City of Dreams, by Harry Carr, 1935, Chptr. XXII, "The Studios" ; approx. 16-pp. copied from "How the Screen found its Voice," 1946, Chpt. One, "Out of the laboratory" ; book excerpt, "Hollywood...the toll of the frenzied Forties," Our Times, 1957 ; book excerpt, Introduction to Hollywood in the Forties, 1968 ; book excerpt, The Parade's gone by, 1969.

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Chandler, Norman - Tape # 1

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2 items: 19-pp. typed and annotated transcript of "Tape # 1 - James Bassett/Norman Chandler, Transcribed 12/4/1972" and photocopy of the annotated transcript. Subjects include: Nick Williams becomes Editor (pp. 2) ; Norman Chandler's memories of Harrison Gray Otis (pp.4 - 6) ; Norman Chandler meets Dorothy Buffum at Stanford, they married in 1922, Norman Chandler did not graduate - "I wasn't enthusiastic about college" ; Dorothy Buffum Chandler comments that in the 1920s, Los Angeles Times did not mean as much to her and Norman Chandler as it did later, it was just a job (pp. 12) ; In the early 1940s, Norman Chandler began to be motivated to run the paper (Harry Chandler died in 1944, pp. 14) ; the recall of Mayor Frank Shaw, "he was a bad egg and we went overboard in supporting him...which I think was a mistake" (14 - 15) ; politics - Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan (pp. 16) ; Otis Chandler named publisher (pp. 17) ; Bassett asks Dorothy Buffum Chandler if, in the late 1950s, she felt Los Angeles Times needed to "shift more to the middle of the road? - she answered "Very much so."

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Chandler, Otis - Tape # 2

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1 item: 19-pp. transcript of "Second taping with Otis Chandler," by Bassett, 7/30/1975. Subjects include: the "Jack Hart thesis" that the years when NC was publisher was an "Era of Mediocrity at Los Angeles Times was challenged by Otis Chandler (pp. 1 - 2) ; Editor Nick Williams and his Managing Editors, Frank Haven and Frank McCulloch (pp. 3 - 5) ; political "kingmaker" Kyle Palmer (pp. 6) ; Otis Chandler - in 1960s "I wanted to move The Times into a position of political independence..." (pp. 6) ; ending Los Angeles Times endorsements for President, Governor and U.S. Senate (pp. 7) ; Otis Chandler comments on those who, after the relative liberalization of Los Angeles Times editorial policies, wished for "The Times of old" (pp. 9 - 10) ; comments on the John Birch Society series and the editorial, signed by Otis, that accompanied it (pp. 10 - 11) ; the Geotek affair (pp. 17+).

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Journalism (1 of 2)

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Approx. 25 items: collection of book excerpts, newspaper and magazine articles, flyers, monographs, etc. Notable items: booklet, University of Wisconsin - Alumni Directory of the School of Journalism, 12/1950 ; approx. 30-pp. copied from a Thesis presented at USC for a Political Science M.A., title "The World as seen through Los Angeles editorials, 1939-40 and 1954-55" by Clifford Gewecke, Jr., 1/1956 (includes Title pages, Table of Contents, Chpt. 1, "Problems and procedures," Chpt. VI, "Summary and conclusions," and a Bibliography ; booklet, A comparative analysis of foreign news in newspapers of the United States and South America by James W. Markham, Penn. State, 1959 ; 37-pp. Thesis presented at Cal. State Fullerton for M.A. in Communications, "California journalism 1850 - 1920... an annotated bibliography with index" by Joanne Ashley Newman, 1976 ; cover and article copied from The Quill, 4/1982, "John Naisbitt...Tomorrow's news today" (Note - cover caricature is of Otis Chandler & Katherine Graham) ; 12-pp. program / booklet, Urban Archives Center (Cal State Northridge), First Amendment Exhibit, 1987; issue of newsletter, Collections (from Urban Archives Center, above), "Exhibit on First Amendment continuing in Oviatt Library." Split into two folders.

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Journalism (2 of 2)

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Buildings - Second - Bombing - Accounts

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Approx. 30 items. Subjects relate to the 1910 bombing of LAT building: 14-pp. report on the bombing and the circumstances surrounding it (with covering note by Durham J. "Durrie" Monsma; 3-pp. letter (7/8/1957) to LAT "Editor" from "Ernest Rhoads, Ex-Battalion Chief," L.A. Fire Dept., who not only fought the fire caused by the bombing, but spoke in person to "Tom [J.B.] McNamara" decades later in prison, and asked him, "Would you do it again?" The letter provides the answer and more details; several accounts of the bombing written in later years; lists of news clippings and editorials related to the bombing and trial; 12+ pp. headed "James B. and John J. McNamara - Papers, 1905-1961"; 30-pp. "Special Report," by "H.G. Otis," dated 10/31/1910 (30 days after bombing), "Our Sad Misfortune: the dynamiting and destruction of the Times Building."

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