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    Internal Correspondence

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    Approx. 12 items: memos, photos and other materials - "Marian Manners" / Fleeta Hoke mementos.

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    Miscellaneous Personal Materials

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    Approx. 15 items: clippings, letters, two KLM (airline) menu booklets, and related material. Notable item: booklet, approx. 35 pages., staple bound, "College of Wartime Cookery - Recipe Collection..." presented by "Marian Manners." (Marian Manners was a pseudonym for Fleeta Hoke, LAT Food Editor.)

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    Activities and Events

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    Approx. 50 items: photographs, letters, flyers and other material related to "outside activities and events" in which Fleeta Hoke ("Marian Manners") participated in as an LAT representative.

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    Judging

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    8 items: selection of photos of Fleeta Hoke ("Marian Manners") with contestants of the "Mrs. America" contest (some may be "Mrs. California" preliminaries) ; letter, 7/23/1957, to "Marian Manners" from Pillsbury Mills, Inc., in which that company invites Miss Manners to be a judge of the Pillsbury Bake-Off in Los Angeles, 10/12 - 10/15/1957 ; the decorative Pillsbury "Judge" ribbon used by Manners at that competition.

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    Morse, Erskine V

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    Two letters of correspondence between Otis Chandler and Erskine V. Morse, Handley Distinguished Professor of Veterinary Medicine and Environmental Health at Purdue University. Morse is also the son of Marian Manners aka Fleeta Hoke.

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    Hoke, Fleeta Files

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    Fleeta Hoke (1901-1995), better known as "Marian Manners," was the earliest food editor of the Times. From 1939 to 1964, Hoke edited the food articles and demonstrated recipes and cooking techniques at the Times's "College of Cookery." Includes recipe cards, correspondence, photographs, publications, and objects. Date range is 1931-1970s.

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