Manuscripts
Correspondence & Miscellaneous
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R - Miscellaneous Correspondence
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Approx. 30 items. Letters, memos, a bibliography of RAND Corp. publications. Subjects include: editorial cartoons; an incident in which LAT columnist Art Ryon, allegedly drunk, spoke to the annual meeting of the Agricultural Council of Calif. at the El Mirador Hotel, Palm Springs; Richard Reston's personal impressions of working the Moscow Bureau in letter to Williams; cancer drugs; community seminar-racial understanding; exchange of letters with Assemblyman Leo Ryan; members of Rigby family take exception to reportage on plane crash that killed one family member and injured others, and after which a 15 year-old boy struggled through snowstorm to bring help; etc. Nelson Rockefeller letter removed from Autograph File and returned to Williams Subject Files.
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G - Miscellaneous Correspondence
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Approx. 45 items. Subjects include: furor over columnist Morrie Ryskind's criticisms of LAT and AP; the William Wieland case; Khrushchev visit to USA; exchange of letters with Barry Goldwater encouraging him to continue his column for the LA Times Syndicate; dropping of "Dick Tracy" comic from the Times & extended exchange with Chester Gould, creator of the comic; exchange of letters between J.J. McClellan, a V.P. of Facelle Co., and Williams, after the company accused the Times story "Grocery Shelf Psychology" of being "biased and inaccurate"; the films of John Wayne--good and bad; etc. Aug. 13, 1965 letter to Wes Gallagher notes that the LAT "is under constant and frequently outrageous attack by some elements of the extreme right."
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J - Miscellaneous Correspondence
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Approx. 20 items. Subjects include: correspondence with (Eliot) Janeway Publishing & Research Corp.; LAT endorsement of Barry Goldwater in 1964; Tom Bradley's political career; unfunny comics; United Jewish Welfare Fund; angry letter from George Jessel; etc.
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Correspondence
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Approx. 25 items: letters. memos and other material related to the Pulitzer Prize competition, 1990. Notable items: 66-pp. booklet, "The Pulitzer Prizes, 1917 - 1983, Columbia University... " ; 13-pp. script by Dick Leonard for the 75th Annual Pulitzer Prize (w/ cover letter to Board Members).
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous
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Approximately 12 items. A list headed "Roster of Members - Public Relations Company 11-2, Los Angeles, CA." It lists gives the names, addresses and phone numbers of twenty-eight former U.S. Navy officers who, as of 1954, worked at public relations firms or as newspaper or magazine writers or editors in the Greater L.A. area. There are two booklets published by the Republican Party. Also various letters, memos and telegrams, mostly from the Republican National Committee.
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous
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Approx. 25 items. Christmas card [w/ photo] from B. daughter and "Ron," Invitation & Fact card for 1974 Republican Senate-House Dinner - $1,000 per ticket, correspondence with Sam J. Sebastiani, Charles Champlin [journalist], other personal correspondence.
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