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Description: 5 items: LAT clip, photo & caption, 9/27/1982, "Gala honors contributors to Honor"; cover and 9-pp. article copy, Directors & Boards, Fall 1982, "Starting corporate life at the top" (Murphy); LAT clip, 11/24/1982, "Franklin Murphy Library dedicated"; tear sheet of major article, Lawrence (KS) Journal-World, 11/18/1984, "Dr. Murphy's Law," focusing on the former Kansas U. chancellor; LAT clip, 12/11/1987, with photo of Murphy with actor Vincent Price & caption, "International art fair gala...color it successful."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1982 - 1987
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

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7 items: LAT clip and copy, 10/21/1969, "Erburu named to new post at Times Mirror"; article copy, Publishers Weekly, photo (& caption) showing Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Erburu at Library of Congress black-tie dinner, chatting with then-Chief Justice Warren Burger. The event was "made possible with the support of the Times Mirror Company"; 2-pp. memo, 10/6/1981, from Stephen Meier to Robert Erburu on the subject of "Improving our media relations"; two reprints of a 3/8/1982 article from Broadcasting , "Times Mirror's Erburu...Gearing up for the information age"; LAT clip, 11/24/1988, "Erburu retains post as chair of regional Fed."

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Approx. 30 items: collection of both briefs and longer articles on Franklin Murphy, chairman of TM board, from various news sources, many of them in Kansas, Missouri, Michigan and elsewhere in the Midwest, on the activities, accomplishments and other bio info on Murphy; article copy, "Kansas City Star. 1971," is handwritten at margin, "Forty Years Ago," a column devoted to reviewing events of 4 decades past, reminds readers that in 1931, at age 15, Murphy was an "all-star" quarterback for Pembroke (H.S.); clip, Daily Pennsylvanian, 9/28/1971, "Franklin Murphy...Univ. trustee who fits many different roles"; cover letter (for previous item) from U. of Penn., for two copies of the article; tear sheet, Los Angeles (mag), "Chatting with Franklin Murphy in the Executive Suite at (LAT)"; a UCLA NEWSLETTER, 5/1977, on Murphy's choice as "1977 Executive of the Year"; several other briefs on Murphy's activities.

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Approx. 20 items: LAT article copy, 3/11/1980, "Times Mirror names 5 senior vice presidents"; WSJ, same day, same topic; LAT clips in plastic sleeve, same as previous story; LAT clip, 3/6/1980, "Two (Tomas Rivera, Alfred E. Osborne, Jr.) named directors of Times Mirror Co."; LAT clip (in sleeve), 3/28/1980, "FCC approves Times Mirror purchase of 5 TV stations"; article copy, Financial World, 6/15/1980, "Digestion time--has Times Mirror bitten off more than it can chew? Don't bet on it"; LAT tear sheet, 10/23/1980, "Times Mirror agrees to buy Denver Post"; article copy, Time, 11/3/1980, "Thunder in the Rockies"; LAT clip, 11/5/1980, "Times Mirror profits decline - firm seeking cable TV system; tear sheet, Women's Wear Daily, 12/3/1980, "A sign of The Times," photo essay on reception given at TM Square by Buff Chandler; Wash. Post covered the same party; Beverly Hills People ditto; article copy, Herald Examiner, 12/5/1980, Ben Stein's column, "Mr. Reagan - your real friends don't eat veal piccata"; related notes and clips.

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6 items: single-sheet, "Biographical Sketch, Mrs. Franklin D. Murphy, undated; 1-pp. "Judith Joyce Harris Murphy (Mrs. Franklin D. Murphy, Biographical Data," 9/1968; 1-pp. "Judith Joyce Harris Murphy (Mrs. Franklin D. Murphy), Biographical Data," 11/1968; article copy, Wilshire Citizen, 1/30/1969, "BH women to chair YWCA Ball"; another 1-pp. Bio on Mrs. Murphy, 4/1969; LAT clip, 9/22/1976, "Murphy and Jones nuptial vows read," on the marriage of Franklin Lee Murphy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin D. Murphy.

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6 items - clips in plastic sleeves; LAT clip, 2/13/1985, "Times Mirror profits hit record $232 million in '84' "; LAT clip, 3/7/1985, "Times Mirror names Erburu chairman to succeed Otis Chandler"; LAT clip, 3/23/1985, "Gannett bids for 13.8% of Cowles," TM mentioned; LAT clip, 5/23/1985, "Times Mirror cautious on plans for media purchases"; LAT clip, 7/2/1985, "Times Mirror considering reincorporation"; 3-pp. article copy, Business Week, 11/4/1985, "Times Mirror wakes up with a throbbing hangover...paying dearly for ill-advised diversification."

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Approx. 45 items: two LAT reprints, "Chancellor (Murphy) views future of restless students," from 1/24/1965, and "Frank Murphy...UCLA man in motion"; large number of news clips and magazine articles from 1968 reporting Dr. Franklin D. Murphy's exit from the post of UCLA chancellor to become chairman of the board and CEO of Times Mirror on 9/1/1968; more clips from 11/1968 on rumors that Murphy would leave TM and join President Nixon's cabinet. A collection of clips on Franklin D. Murphy as he closed out his job as chancellor of UCLA and joined Times Mirror, looking at his activities, his style, his accomplishments; tear sheet of LAT's West (mag.) - cover story on UCLA.

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