Manuscripts
Correspondence & Miscellaneous
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous
Manuscripts
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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R - Miscellaneous Correspondence
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Approx. 30 items. Letters, memos, bios, etc. Includes: correspondence between Williams and Robert Rowen, Pres., Pasadena Art Museum; letter to Harry Rowan, Pres., RAND Corp.; coverage of education in California; "the coffee situation in Editorial (1/9/1969); letter from Rep. Edward Roybal on the "auto smog conspiracy; exchange of letters with L.G.G. Ramsey, Editor, The Connoisseur, London, England; material on Joseph Roos, Exec. Dir., Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles; correspondence with William Reason, Editor (in-house newsletter), RTD; etc.
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Newspaper Preprint Corp
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Approx. 35 items - letters, memos, reports and other material related to preprints for LAT. Notable names and items include: Vance Stickell ; exchange of letters with John L. Kaufman (Pres., Newspaper Advertising Bureau) ; exchange of letters with William Fitzhugh, Jr. (Pres., Newspaper Preprint Corp.) ; Minutes of Executive Committee meeting, Newspaper Preprint Corp. ; 54-pp. (gray cover) "Newspaper Advertising Study of Retailer Preprinted Sections," 4/1970 (Bureau of Advertising - American Newspaper Publishers Assn.) ; more.
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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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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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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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