Manuscripts

Miscellaneous correspondence

Description: Approx. 30 items: letters, memos, reports and related material on advertising sales, rates, marketing, etc. Notable items include: 3-pp. transcript of remarks to kick off big marketing push for The Games, titled "Vance Stickell - Olympic Commitment," 4/18/1984 ; 3-pp. transcript of remarks - "Display Advertising Rally...(8/13/1984)," which opens, "...welcome to the first of many 'thank God it's over' parties...," and goes on the point out the extra work load related to the Olympics.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1968 - 1986
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.

Tom Johnson

Manuscripts

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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Miscellaneous

Manuscripts

Approx. 40 items: memos and reports related to the transition from old Home magazine to new Los Angeles Times Magazine. Notable items: 2-pp. speech by Stickell, 10/3/1985, "Remarks...to the Sales Departments..." ; exchange with Moritz Market Research ; Marketing Research trend charts, 6/5/1986 ; 6-pp. article copy, Columbia Journalism Review, "Sunday magazines - do they deserve to survive?" ; 9-pp. "1987 Magazine proposal" ; approx. 12-pp. package, "November Hall's Editorial Analysis," 2/3/1987 ;25+ pp."PIB/LNA Competitive Magazine Analysis," 6/1987 ; approx. 20-pp. packet (clear plastic cover).

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Jim Shaffer

Manuscripts

3 items: Shaffer's 4-pp. report, 6/8/1984, subject - "Proposed Planning Retreat" ; Shaffer's 16-pp. report, 10/29/1985, subject - "The Future of The Times" ; 11-pp. transcript of "Jim Shaffer's remarks for Five year Plan presentation to Management Group" (6/1986).

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Speeches

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: 7-pp. speech transcript, "...to the University of California, Berkeley," 3/14/1984, opens, "Who made Gary Hart?" ; 6-pp. speech text (and attached material), "...to the New Mexico Judicial Conclave," 6/15/1984 ; 12-pp. speech transcript, "Why Justice Black was right--an absolutist's view of the First Amendment," 6/7/1975 ; 8-pp. speech transcript, Pepperdine University--Los Angeles commencement, "remarks by Anthony Day," 4/12/1974 ; 9-pp. speech transcript, "American Jewish Committee, remarks by Anthony Day," 5/21/1975 ; 2-pp. speech text, "Remarks by Anthony Day at the dinner for Pepperdine Univ. Associates for Will and Ariel Durant," 11/8/1977 ; 9-pp. speech text, "Speech to the Caltech Y," n.d. ; 7-pp. speech text, "Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation Council," 1/299/1981 (two copies) ; 14-pp. speech transcript, "International Press Institute Symposium - Toronto, Canada," 11/23/1981 ; preview copy of John F. Kennedy's inauguration speech (1/20/1961), from Pierre Salinger of the Kennedy Press Office - someone (Day?) jotted stars on the sheets to "mark applause" at the time the speech was delivered.

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Employees - Day, Anthony

Manuscripts

3 items: undated Q&A with Anthony Day, 17-pp. transcript; article copy, Among Ourselves, 11/1969, "Anthony Day named Times' chief editorial writer"; 3-pp. transcript of remarks to American Civil Liberties Union by Anthony Day, 12/8/1973.

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Speeches - Women's Coalition

Manuscripts

2 items: 3-pp. transcript of "Welcome remarks...Jim Boswell," undated, delivered to the League of Women Voters of Los Angeles County ; 14-pp. transcript of "Speech by Narda Zacchino - delivered Saturday (9/26/1987) at Women's Coalition of Orange County, Political Women III Conference

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