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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Approx. 25 items. Materials include: a wide variety of "business reply mail" cards, brochures, flyers, etc., promoting various LAT products, from the daily & Sunday newspapers, to cookbooks, collections of Conrad cartoons, LAT ad clippings, and "Update - a subscriber's guide to recent improvements and new features in The Times."
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Approx. 15 items: brown folder w/ pockets contains items related to an LAT memorial service for Phillips, who was killed in a traffic accident in 4/1984; LAT obit, 4/24/1984, "Gordon Phillips, 'Voice of Times,' killed in accident"; Management and Employee Bulletins related to Phillips death; several copies of an enclosure card reading, "GORDON R. PHILLIIPS, April 22, 1922 - April 23, 1984." Included is a list of LAT "Radio commercials as recorded by Gordon Phillips -- 1962 - 1984."
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Approx. 20 items: letters and postcards either praising or condemning material about the John Birch Society (including paid advertising) that appeared in LAT, 1964 - 1967.
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5 items. Letters and a memo. Subjects: civility or lack of it in Sports Dept.; letter from U.S. Forest Service congratulating LAT on the hiring of outdoor writer Lupi Saldana; courteous reply to the Forest Service letter; letter from reader praising the sports writing of Mal Florence; reply to aforementioned letter.
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8 items: letter, 9/19/1967, to Bassett from Walter Annenberg (publisher, ambassador) praising editorial cartoonist Paul Conrad ; 4/29/1969, Bassett to Douglas T. Moore, responding to complaint about a specific Conrad cartoon ; letter, 5/17/1969, to Bassett from Douglas T. Moore, critical of Conrad and LAT and attached handwritten letter, 4/21/1969, from Moore to Franklin Murphy (Chair, TM Board) ; letter, 6/2/1970, from Bassett to Allen Mansfield (Pacific Western Securities), responding to Mansfield's criticism of Conrad cartoons and attached letter from Mansfield to Frank Haven, Managing Editor, LAT, attached are two Conrad cartoons about Nixon.
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3 items, stapled: 3-pp. "Dealer's Agreement" (canceled 1950); 2-pp. "Cash Bond Agreement" (canceled 1950); 1948 letter from R.F. Marx, LAT Circulation Manager, to Ernest Barber (a dealer) informing him of a price increase for LAT copies furnished, other details.
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