Manuscripts
Employees - Drake, Waldo
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Drake, Waldo
Manuscripts
A letter from Otis Chandler to Mrs. Waldo Drake [Mary Ann Drake] regarding the death of her husband William Waldo Drake. Also in this folder is a "Notification of Death" form informing Chandler of Drake's death.
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Employees - Drake Waldo - Newspaper Copy
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Approx. 65 items: duplicate copies of stories written by LAT foreign correspondent Waldo Drake. Handwritten notations at the top margin of each stapled set read "Duplicate. Original mailed....(followed by a date)." The datelines include locations in Europe, the Soviet Union and Africa.
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Drake, Waldo
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2 items: 14-pp. transcript of taped interview, Bassett with Waldo Drake, 4/26/1973 - Drake started with LAT in 1922, and started on the "waterfront beat," in later years was a foreign correspondent ; letter, 5/3/1973, Drake to Bassett, thanking Bassett for a transcript of the interview that was sent to him, Drake.
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Employees - Ainsworth, Ed
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5 items: letter (in plastic sleeve), 2/9/1962, from Allan Hancock to Ed Ainsworth, thanking him for a copy of The California I Love by Leo Carrillo (in collaboration with Ainsworth); article copy from "Keeping up with The Times," 6/2/1967, on Ed Ainsworth; copy of Ainsworth's final LAT column ("On the Move"), 6/6/1967, "Time arrives for farewell";copy of LAT obit, "Ed Ainsworth, retired Times columnist, dies in San Diego"; clip of Among Ourselves obit, 7/1968, "Death takes Ed Ainsworth, Timesman for 43 years."
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Employees - Whitaker, Alma
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Approx. 12 items: two samples of Alma Whitaker's "Sugar and Spice" column, from 1931 and 1936; a 1941 sample of W's writing; LAT, 12/4/1941, "Feminine reporter takes baby along," memories of W's early days at LAT (original & copy in plastic sleeve); Among Ourselves, 2 copies, 6/1949, "Women who made The Times," about Whitaker; (orig. & copy in plastic sleeve) LAT obit, "Alma Whitaker, retired Times columnist, dies"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 1/1957, "Alma Whitaker lived by wit, good humor"; article tear sheet, date / publication unknown, "Veteran Newshens made history" (on Whitaker and other women journalists in L.A. during early decades of 20th century).
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Drake, Waldo
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Approx. 60 items. Subjects include: editorial policy on Red China; Italy, US-Italy military linkage; stories on Spain; stories on African nations and discussion of priorities in reporting from Africa; US defense strategy; "the current mess in Lebanon (1958); "pieces on the Russian trip; discussion of and decision that Drake would cover NATO meetings instead of wedding of :Princess Margaret; etc.
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