Manuscripts

Haven, Frank

Description: Approx. 40 items. Memos , letters, one news paper clipping. Subjects include: libel; reportage from Vietnam; Eric Sevareid essay on daily newspapers as "a needle shower of unrelated facts"; Robert Hartmann's high expense account totals; photos of Chandler family members at newsworthy events; staffers' appearances on television and radio programs; living allowances for international correspondents; itinerary for European trip of Williams, Otis Chandler and James Bassett; start of Orange County section; Olympic Games coverage; sending Gene Sherman to London; etc.
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.

Haven, Frank

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items. Memos and letters. Subjects include: work by Leonard Feather (jazz critic); Sheinwold on Bridge; staffers writing books (on their own time); crime in L.A. and the nation; "Viewpoint of the Times" essays; John Steinbeck writing on Vietnam; etc.

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Haven, Frank

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items. Subjects include: Discussion of "Orange County Notes" page; use of Chandler family and corporate staff names in news stories; coverage of surfing; discussion of retractions; replacement of retirees; payroll procedures; Times staffers and outside writing/television appearances; a "massive assault on...Pulitzer Prizes"; co-operation with KTLA; competition with television generally; etc.

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Chronological File - April

Manuscripts

Approx. 70 items. Letters, memos. Partial list of addressees and subjects: college board meeting; outside writing and television appearances by staffers; Mervin Field, Field Research; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Memphis riot; Panama reportage of Ruben Salazar; Vietnam war; to Walter Annenberg on Joyce Haber; Al Neuharth (Gannett Newspapers); John J. Goldman, LAT NY Bureau; MLK assassination; etc.

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Haven, Frank

Manuscripts

Approx. 45 items. Memos, letters and newspaper clippings. Subjects include: the "lost" Father Coffield story; new format for Metro; several new comics; L.A. visits by foreign and domestic correspondents; travel schedule for Williams and James Bassett related to their May-June 1965 trip to Mexico and South America; need to boost staff numbers (April 28, 1965); Sacramento task force; series on outside interests of State legislators; serialization of books by former president Eisenhower and Theodore White; end of Gene Sherman's foreign assignment; series on "the younger set"; series on major resort areas of the West; Jerry Hulse -- is it "necessary for him to travel constantly"[?] ;

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Haven, Frank

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items. Memos and letters. Subjects include: balance in the Opinion section; news stories mentioning members of the Chandler family or details of Times-Mirror's corporate operations; press run changes, timing of various editions; changes to Fashion and Family sections; allegations of Lyndon Johnson "swinging" work to Texas firms; reduced travel budgets; stories on thalidomide the death of Marilyn Monroe; continuation of Ayn Rand column; automated Western Union copy; upgrading the three news desks and the copy desk; out-of-state election coverage; brief profiles of "men in the news"; etc.

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Haven, Frank

Manuscripts

2 items: transcripts of interview with Los Angeles Times Editor Frank Haven, in two parts, 21-pp. and 27-pp., 3/26/1980. Subjects include: memories of his childhood ; Haven works his way up in journalism - he started at San Diego Sun as a teen ; to Los Angeles Times at age 28 (p. 6) ; many memories of newspaper operations in that era ; memories of Nick Williams ; memories of Otis Chandler's 1960s campaign to improve the paper and make the political coverage more balanced, non-partisan ; origins of Sam Yorty-Los Angeles Times feud ; SIDE 2 ; comments on the Nixon-Kennedy election (1960) ; comments on Jayne Mansfield and Frank Sinatra ; interviewer asks Haven to evaluate the strengths & weaknesses of Otis Chandler ; (Side 2, p. 6) ; the GeoTek case ; comments on Bill Thomas (p.11) ; memories of various top editors ; more.

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