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Garland, William May
Manuscripts
6 items: two copies of transcript headed "Story of the origin of the Xth Olympiad held in Los Angeles, California, in 1932, as written by William May Garland, one is 33 pp., the other ends with pp. 28, ; letter, 6/6/1983, to Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, from Lee Whitney, Editor of You (mag) ; LAT sports tear sheets for 12/10/1983, and misc. copies of same.
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Sports - 1932 Olympics
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7 items: 2-pp. report, titled "Chronological development of the building of the Los Angeles Memorial Colosseum [sic] and the funding of the Games of the Xth Olympiad" ; LAT article copy, 4/29/1932, "Let's blow our horn" (Olympic Games in L.A.) ; original program, "Fifty Years of Olympic Gold, 1932 - 1982" (American Lung Assn.) ; two issues of You (TransAmerica Occidental Life newsletter), May and June 1983 - both issues have an article on the 1984 L.A. Olympics ; LAT article copy, 12/10/1983, "Rookie wins '32 Olympics for L.A." ; LAT tear sheet, 6/4/1984, "The '32 Olympics...a view of the way they were."
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Newspapers - Miscellaneous
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Approx. 30 items: selected clips, copies, etc, from LAT, from magazines and from other newspapers on the newspaper "scene" in Los Angeles. Notable items: chapter copied from book, Jazz Journalism...story of the tabloid newspapers, 1938 ; 17-pp. report (plus charts) from Princeton U. (in green folder), The Public appraises the newspaper [1958] ; article copied from Saturday Review, 5/13/1961, "Rating the American newspaper" ; reprint from Journalism Quarterly, Summer 1961, "The changing Sunday U.S. newspaper" ; 16-pp. report, William Hachten, U. of Wisconsin, 8/1961, "The future of Sunday newspapers" ; tear sheet, Newsweek, 11/29/1965, "What's wrong with newspapers?" ; complete issue, Rand Research Review, Spring 1985, cover story, "High technology and the newspaper industry" ; tear sheet, Forbes, 2/20/1989, "Are newspapers losing their audience? / Citizen Kane meets Adam Smith" ; tear sheet, Wall Street Journal, 6/23/1989, major article on that newspaper's Centennial, "One newspaper's century ...the inside story"; postcard of the Newsboy Fountain in Great Barrington, MA erected by William L. Brown (held controlling interest in the New York Daily News), 1985.
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Olympics - 1984 Olympics
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Red baseball cap with "Los Angeles Times" and Olympic logo in white. Two 1984 L.A. Olympics banners, "Stars in Motion" design. Two small commemorative pins. "Xth Olympiad - Los Angeles - 1932" auto ornament. Two copies of special Los Angeles Times Olympic newspapers. July 29, 1984 and July 30, 1984. California Olympic-themed license plate "TIMES". Production Department scrapbook in brown folio, showing front pages of Los Angeles Times Olympic sections. Gifted to Tom Johnson.
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Pico, Pio
Manuscripts
5 items: article copy, Journal of the West, 7/1963, pp. 281-304, "Pio Pico Mansion...Fact, fiction and supposition" ; LAT article copy, 5/31/1970, visible headline on the jump "Two Picos generations apart" ; LAT article copy, 8/6/1974, "Pio Pico dies...grandson of last Mexican governor of California" ; tear sheet, (L.A.) Daily News, 1/16/1982, "Be it ever so humble, there's no place like her adobe" (story is specifically about the ANDRES PICO adobe - Pio's brother) ; LAT tear sheet, 10/2/1983, "Pio Pico lives on in California folklore" ; LAT tear sheet, 7/31/1988, "History lesson with putty knife...chipping away at Pico Hacienda."
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Crime - Assassinations
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3 items: LAT article, 3/31/1981, "10 of nation's presidents targets of assassination attempts," (one tear sheet, one copy); LAT article tear sheet, 4/17/1981, "The shootings of the presidents...history's footnotes detail changes in medical technology."
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