Manuscripts

Moral Re-Armament

Description: Approx. 25 items. Letters, memos, booklets, etc. Subjects include: essay on Moral Re-Armament by Gen. Hugo Bethlem of Brazil; reports on MRA activities in Latin America; literature on MRA; a variety of letters urging Williams and LAT to support the MRA organization; letters to LAT critical of an article on MRA that ran in the paper, one alleging that it treated the organization "in a cynical and trivial way"; etc.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1961 - 1963
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.

Ryskind, Morrie

Manuscripts

Approx. 35 items. Letters, memos. Some letters are from readers urging LAT to resume publication of conservative Morrie Ryskind's columns. (R. had ceased submitting material following LAT refusal to run one in late 1965) Most of the remaining correspondence involves LAT staff conducting a sort of "post-mortem" on Ryskind's association with LAT. Some are exchanges between Rex Barley (LAT Syndicate) or Nick Williams and Ryskind. The LAT declined to run certain of his columns when they believed he was making unsubstantiated allegations regarding media outlets. Also, Ryskind was a member of the John Birch Society and did not approve when LAT did an expose on the group, which seemed to fuel the "feud." A 6-pp. memo Williams wrote to Otis Chandler contains much information about the situation. It is dated March 7, 1966. Also in the file are another group of letters critical of LAT for "censoring" Ryskind.

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H - Miscellaneous Correspondence

Manuscripts

Approx. 65 items. Subjects include: a 3-pp. Williams letter responding to Edwin Haroldsen, Chairman-elect of Comm. Dept., Brigham Young U., who asked W. to "indicate your own background and how you've been able to advance in the profession [of journalism]"; Williams response to letter from mayor of San Dimas explaining LAT decision to close its Pomona office; Williams response to a Claremont Men's College professor who had written alleging "sensationalism" in LAT coverage; letter from an executive of Horton & Converse (pharmacies) claiming LAT had run a damaging article; letters of congratulations to both Williams and William Thomas on retirement and promotion respectively; LAT staffers Champlin and Seidenbaum on KCET's "Citywatchers"; etc.

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Yorty, Sam - 1969

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items. Letters, booklet, "The Yorty Years," a highly favorable view of his mayorship, transcripts of media reports on Yorty, sections from L.A. Free Press and Herald-Examiner, etc. Specific subjects include: LAT hesitates to endorse Tom Bradley in mayoral race of 1969, instead endorsing Alfonzo Bell as the most likely to unseat Yorty; Yorty's office newsletter (3/13/1969) reports on Yorty's speech to the Westwood Young Republicans; Yorty newsletter predicting mass police resignations should Bradley win election; George Putnam newscast highly critical of Otis Chandler and LAT; much more material relating to Yorty-LAT feud; etc.

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V - Miscellaneous Correspondence

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items. Letters, news clippings. Subjects include: letter for Otis Chandler from Thomas Pryor, Editor of Daily Variety, complaining about an article in LAT by Judith Crist on coverage of Hollywood by the trade papers (incl. Daily Variety); Willard Voit's press release at the time he resigned from John Birch Society's publishing arm to work for the presidential campaign of George Wallace; letter critical of LAT story touting Carlton Fredericks and his views on nutrition; W.'s letter critical of photographic layouts in Home mag.; retiring of pseudonym "Marion Manners" in favor of real name of LAT Food Editor, Jeanne Voltz (1968); LAT's California Cookbook; on-going debate over relative harm to society of alcohol vs. marijuana abuse; automobile braking systems; letter to the editor from entertainer Rudy Vallee, offering his services as a columnist; etc.

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Morality

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items: LAT editorials and "news" stories on subjects such as graft, the Charleston (dance craze), smut, "the exploitation of nudity," etc.

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Departments - Employee Relations - Affirmative Action

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Approx. 10 items. LAT Management Bulletins from Otis Chandler (1973), and Tom Johnson (1987); 4-pp. "Affirmative Action Plan" (1973); copy of "Newspeak" column, L.A. Weekly, 8/1987, alleging that LAT was "male-dominated" and that the female staffers were unhappy; copy of editorial, 2/3/1977, L.A. Sentinel, "A time to fight," implying that LAT (unnamed) had too few black staffers and management people; 3-pp. report, "Affirmative Action Activities"; etc.

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