Manuscripts

WEEKEND SPORTS

Description: Approx. 12 items: letters and other material related to the magazine supplement, Weekend Sports. Notable items:complete issue of Weekend Sports for 6/15/1975 ; 6-pp. (plus cover letter) "Trendex Report - nationwide research by telephone - Weekend Sports Magazine, primary audience survey, May, June, 1975.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1975 - 1976
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.

Sports

Manuscripts

7 items: LAT clips on the evolution of sports coverage in Southern California ; magazine and newspaper articles on sports in Los Angeles during the 19th and 20th centuries from The Californians (7/1988), Downtown News (4/6/1987), Newsday, Long Island, NY (3/17/1975). Notable: a 1921 LAT article copy about a Jack Dempsey boxing match.

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Telephone Directories

Manuscripts

3 items: Times Mirror Square telephone directories, 9/1974, 8/1975, plus an undated Times Mirror (Corporate) Telephone Directory.

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USA Today / USA Weekend

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items: memos, letters and other material related to the growing circulation of USA Today, and the success (or lack of it) of USA Weekend in the early 1980s.

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Murray, Carolyn

Manuscripts

8 items: typed single sheet with introduction for Carolyn Murray, attached to 9-pp. speech transcript which begins, "People are always asking me..." (both undated) ; 15-pp. (76 - 90) copied from "The Sunday Supplement in transition," by Glen W. Peters (USC School of Journalism, Master of Arts Thesis, 1969) ; clip copy, 6/15/1975, "It's our birthday," article about Home magazine ; 11-pp. transcript of "Taping with Carolyn Murray, Editor of Home magazine," 10/15/1975 ; tear sheet of article, "50 Great Americans [wines]" by Robert Lawrence Balzer, Home, 10/12/1975 ; 8-pp. issue of Times Mirror Progress, Vol. 14, 1976, on pp. 5 is an article on Carolyn Murray.

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Sports

Manuscripts

Approx. 60 items: memos, reports, tear sheets, lists and other material related to LAT Sports section and its coverage. Includes: stinging 4-pp. memo from Sports Editor Bill Dwyre to his staff on "Sports Section Errors" (3/16/1984) ; memo and package, "Proposal for Monday Special Sports Section" (9/21/1984) ; collection of USA Today Sports sections (3/1983) ; other issues - "outside writing, Olympics planning, etc.

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Sunday Magazine

Manuscripts

First appeared in late 1916 and alternatively titled Illustrated Magazine, Illustrated Weekly, and the Sunday Magazine, this weekly supplement included photography, fiction, and personal interest stories. The last issue was printed on November 24, 1940. Date range is 1899-1905, 1921-1923, 1928-1935.

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