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  Approx. 10 items: stapled packet of three items - two letters (1961) between Josiah Macy (Pan American World Airways) and Norman Chandler's office, plus multi-page list of corporate board affiliations of Norman Chandler ; 3-pp. transcript of "Telephone conversation with Nick Williams, 9/29/1975," in which Bassett asks him about bringing Frank Haven and Frank McCulloch to LAT, their overlapping roles and how they got along ; 10-pp. transcript of "Taping with Frank McCulloch, Editor of the Sacramento Bee, on 9/16/1975" ; duplicate of previous transcript on green paper - both versions have editing markups ; packet of material related to Frederica ("Freddie") Miller, long-time administrative aide to Otis Chandler - 16-pp. transcript of Bassett's interview of her, memo of 10/22/1975 from Miller to Bassett after she reviewed aforementioned transcript, memo of 1/18/1974 from Miller to Jim Chambers on subject of the "Associated Press Election Strategy" ; 27-pp. transcript of "Interview - Mark Murphy," 2/16/1973, an editor with The Oregonian and later LAT - also 1-pp. "Biography from the Los Angeles Times" for Murphy.

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  Weegar, Ted

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  1 item: 76-pp. transcript of interview with Ted Weegar, an LAT editor involved with the electronic editing system, etc. Notable names and subjects include: Weegar and interviewer Berges jump around a bit but much of the interview has to do with the electronic editing system ; Cecily Surace comes from RAND to be LAT Library Director and modernizes that department (pp. 18 - 20) ; description of the emerging electronic system of feeding stories between writers, editors and the data bank in the Editorial Library (around pp. 29) ; pagination (pp. 33) ; Weegar's childhood and youth (pp. 35 - 37) ; what led him into journalism (pp. 50) ; Richard Nixon (pp. 52 - 53) ; around 1960, Weegar was chosen to start up the LAT Opinion section (pp. 57 - 59) ; "those early years (with) Otis (as) publisher were terribly fun" (pp. 62 - 63).

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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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  Chandler, Otis - Tape # 1

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  Approx. 10 items: 18-pp. transcript of Bassett interview of Otis Chandler, 7/29/1975, wide range of subjects - youth, Stanford, his personality, social & political opinions of his wife, "Missy," The Mirror, etc ; 2-pp. bio on Otis Chandler ; 5-pp. "Add Tape 1, 8/18/1975 ; 35-pp. interview transcript sent by Jack Hart of Cal State Northridge, 7/1/1973 - subjects are handwritten on cover sheet ; 3-pp. transcript of interview on KNXT (TV), 10/13/1975, of Otis Chandler by newsman Joseph Benti on Chandler's feelings about power vs. opportunity, about his leadership style, women in journalism, etc ; several more installments of the Benti interview ; 26-pp. transcript of interview (prob. KABC radio) with Michael Jackson as host (no date, no other info on transcript).

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  Approx. 10 items: several letters exchanged between Bassett and Robert Donovan ; 2-pp. (yellow) of "Questions for Bob Donovan" ; 13-pp. of responses to previous questions, Donovan to Bassett, 9/1975 ; newspaper and magazine article copies about Donovan ; single-sheet "Biography from the Los Angeles Times" for Donovan, n.d. ; 24-pp. transcript of interview, by Bassett, of Donald Douglas, Sr., 1/8/1973 ; 14-pp. transcript of - "...taping with Waldo Drake," 4/26/1973, who started on Los Angeles Times in 1922 on the waterfront "beat" and later became a foreign correspondent ; 6-pp. transcript of "conversation with Mrs. Wilma Drake, former Administrative Asst. to Mr. Norman Chandler." Original correspondence between Donald Douglas and Bassett removed from Autograph File and returned to Bassett files.

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  Bunzel, Peter

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  1 item: 15-pp. transcript of interview of Peter Bunzel by Bassett, 10/21/1975. Bunzel was Editor of West magazine, starting in 1971.

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