Manuscripts

Special Sections

Description: Approx. 25 items: memos, reports, tear sheets, etc. related to LAT Special Sections. Includes: 8-pp. report from Bob Rawitch to Shelby Coffey and Bill Thomas, subject "Special Sections Study" (7/10/1988) ; 6-pp. memo, "Book Review Special Section," 11/12/1970, from Digby Diehl ; complete 1964 advertising supplement, "Desert World" ; complete 1963 section, "South Coast World ; more.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1963 - 1988
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.

Departments - Editorial - Book Review Section

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: brief, Editor & Publisher, 6/6/1970, "L.A. Times adds tab devoted to books"; form letter from Digby Diehl, 3/1977, with 5-pp. "Reviewer's Guide" for submissions to LAT Book Review;LAT article,12/11/1985, by David Shaw, "Reviewing Books-it's haphazard" (2 other articles in Shaw series on book review sections, one on NYT, the other on Wash. Post; sampling of Pg. 1 of LAT Book Review; related articles.

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Real Estate Section

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Approx. 12 items: notes, memos, letters and reports related to the LAT Real Estate section, 1967 - 1988. Includes: 6-pp. report, John Lindsay to Shelby Coffey III on "Sunday Real Estate Project" w/ attached sheet on figures on 10 years of "Real Estate Linage ; info packet on banquet (12/3/1987) honoring LAT's Dick Turpin put on by Society for Marketing Professional Services ; memos from 1978 on expansion of Real Estate section ; material from 1967 on "zoning" the Real Estate section ; more.

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Coffey, Shelby

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Approx. 20 items: memos, transcripts, tear sheets and article copies related to Editor Shelby Coffey, 1987 - 1988. Includes: approx. 25-pp. transcript of Q&A with Coffey, headed "Bureau Breakfast with Shelby Coffey," (6/10/1988) ; numerous news clips and copies on the selection of Coffey as Executive Editor of LAT ; etc.

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Special Sections

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Three items comprising five pages pertaining to Special Sections department, containing memos.

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Diehl, Digby

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3 items: letter, 8/1/1973, from Jane Kolb, Account Executive, Harshe-Rotman & Druck, to Vance Stickell of LAT, with a copy of DIgby Dieh'sl library list for the cruise ship, Island Princess ; letter, 8/3/1973, from Vance Stickell to Jane Kolb, thanking her for sending the list ; 8-pp. list of "200 books for the Island Princess Library - selected by Digby Diehl."

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Employees - Coffey, Shelby

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: tear sheet, Herald-Examiner, 4/5/1988, "L.A.Times appoints Shelby Coffey to new executive editor post"; tear sheet, NY Times, 4/6/1988, "Los Angeles Times names heir apparent to the Editor's job"; Employee Bulletin, 4/5/1988, with Tom Johnson's announcement of Coffey selection; various publications' reporting on above appointment and other career moves, incl. L.A. Weekly, The American Editor, etc; multi-page tear sheet, Esquire, 12/1988, "Shelby Coffey, Oozing Charm"; approx. 25 -pp. transcript of Coffey's remarks, including Q&A, at LAT Washington Bureau, 6/10/1988;

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