Manuscripts

Sports

Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1921 - 1988
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Departments - Editorial - Sports Section

Manuscripts

9 items. Materials include: AP story, 4/20/1939, "Daro's payoff to sports scribes bared"; copy of article, 8/1980, Los Angeles (mag), "Read all about 'em, sports fans -- inside the Times' highly touted sports section..."; Among Ourselves, 8/1974, "It no longer is just fun-and-games"; LAT clip, 2/12/1961, "Members of the All-Star team"; pg. 1 of the first ever separate LAT Sports section, 7/9/1956, two related copied sheets; LAT Sports-related briefs and memos.

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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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Job applicants and resumes - Thompson, Morris

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items: letters, resume materials and clips related to the job application to LAT of Morris Thompson, formerly of Miami Herald, Newsday and Washington Post. Resume removed.

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Articles

Manuscripts

5 items: LAT clip, 2/12/1987, "Times Mirror profit rises..."; two tear sheets, Los Angeles (mag), 7/1987 showing TM as #2 on Fortune's "15 richest publishing companies in the US" and 8/1987 showing TM at #1 on list of the "12 biggest stockholders in the city (L.A.)"; LAT copy, 7/23/1987, "Times Mirror operating profit up 20% in quarter"; LAT copy, 7/24/1987, Times Mirror operating income jumps,,"

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Sports Department

Manuscripts

5 items. Letters and a memo. Subjects: civility or lack of it in Sports Dept.; letter from U.S. Forest Service congratulating LAT on the hiring of outdoor writer Lupi Saldana; courteous reply to the Forest Service letter; letter from reader praising the sports writing of Mal Florence; reply to aforementioned letter.

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Employees - Dosti, Rose

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items: LAT clips from 1987 and 1988, on the Billionaire Boys Club murder case. Arben Dosti, son of Times writer Rose Dosti, was one of several young men convicted in those years of murder; tear sheet, Los Angeles (mag), 5/1986, "The Deadly Pied Piper of Beverly Hills"; tear sheet, L.A. Weekly, 7/25/1986, "Inside the Billionaire Boys Club."

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