Opening Hours
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
9 items. Materials include: AP story, 4/20/1939, "Daro's payoff to sports scribes bared"; copy of article, 8/1980, Los Angeles (mag), "Read all about 'em, sports fans -- inside the Times' highly touted sports section..."; Among Ourselves, 8/1974, "It no longer is just fun-and-games"; LAT clip, 2/12/1961, "Members of the All-Star team"; pg. 1 of the first ever separate LAT Sports section, 7/9/1956, two related copied sheets; LAT Sports-related briefs and memos.
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Approx. 25 items. Letters and memos. Subjects and correspondents include: (8/16) letter to Howard Hays, Editor, Riverside Press-Enterprise, attached to ASNE forms for William Thomas' membership, and praising Hays for his work as Editor; (8/13) reply to a reader who praised cartoonist Conrad (the majority who wrote in criticized him) ; (8/13) letter to Stuart Loory on "theme issues" of West mag., which NBW does not like; (8/4) 2-pp. letter to Frank Tremaine, VP, United Press International, reacting negatively to notice of a 10% price increase to LAT for the UPI service; (8/4) letter to J. Edw. Murray of Detroit Free Press, in which NBW says that positive reaction to "Doonesbury" is word-of-mouth, negative is in letters; etc.
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Approx. 12 items: letters and other material related to the magazine supplement, Weekend Sports. Notable items:complete issue of Weekend Sports for 6/15/1975 ; 6-pp. (plus cover letter) "Trendex Report - nationwide research by telephone - Weekend Sports Magazine, primary audience survey, May, June, 1975.
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Approx. 15 items: letter, 12/21/1939, to Norman Chandler from a representative (signature unreadable) of the Huntington Beach Scientific Angler's Club praising a "Distance Fly and Bait Champion," R.G. "Dick Miller, and recommending him for honors ; a "Place card" list for the banquet ; a collection of very rough handwritten notes apparently related to the banquet.
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Approx. 60 items: memos, reports, tear sheets, lists and other material related to LAT Sports section and its coverage. Includes: stinging 4-pp. memo from Sports Editor Bill Dwyre to his staff on "Sports Section Errors" (3/16/1984) ; memo and package, "Proposal for Monday Special Sports Section" (9/21/1984) ; collection of USA Today Sports sections (3/1983) ; other issues - "outside writing, Olympics planning, etc.
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2 items: letter, 1/13/1919, from Lina Grey (and husband Zane Grey) to Gordon Ray Young, LAT columnist, praising his work for the paper; letter, 10/17/1978, from Cary Grant to Gordon Phillips, LAT Public relations, complaint about condition in which his LAT arrived on his driveway.
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