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
2 items: tear sheet of Nick B. Williams column, 9/17/1961, "Watch our finance section grow!"; copy of brief article explaining "Expanded financial, business coverage in today's Times," no byline, no date. Includes Predecessor Sections.
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Approx. 15 items. Materials include: copy of LAT article (7/20/1941), "'Front door ballot box' starts in Times next Sunday," asking for public opinion on issues, plus 6 sheets of "Forum" questions with the dates they ran in LAT; copies of 5 "Dear Abby" columns, or LAT articles mentioning "Dear Abby" (1962); LAT article copy, 1/17/1926, "Politeness reporter is arrested four times...", LAT staffer say that, generally, LA traffic officers are more polite than those in Chicago and elsewhere; tear sheet, LAT 9/7/1989, "Genetic maps leading us into unknown..."; copy of LAT crossword puzzle, 11/27/1924.
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Approx. 50 items. Material includes: packet of correspondence (stapled), 1966, between Philip Corwin of Barron's Weekly, and Otis Chandler, Nick Williams, Robert Nelson and others at LAT, related to Corwin's research for a story on the newspaper industry; article, The Certified News, 12/1966, article, The Review (of So. Cal. Journalism), "One of the world's great {good} newspapers"; 6-pp. report (several versions), "Basic Times Editorial Page Policies," 1964 - edited by Nick Williams; summary of 1962 series growing out of California's achieving No. 1 ranking in population among the 50 states--stories were written on religion, real estate, government, social welfare, labor, transportation, agriculture, sports, etc.; 2 cps. of 1961 booklet containing two essays, "A Statement of Principle," by Norman Chandler, and "An Octogenarian and Still More Growth Ahead"; various LAT articles dealing with press freedom, etc.; multi-page info. packet headed "Jan. 1991 - re: Persian Gulf War"; "OC's (Otis Chandler) comments - Oct. 12, 1961," specifying "Those against us..." and "Things in our favor..."; 8/9/1982, "On Editorial Policy," by Tom Johnson; LAT tear sheet, 8/2/1976, "The ups and downs of a bail bondsman," by Al Martinez, which has had all the quoted profanity/obscenity underlined (but w/o comment); articles, LAT and others, on newspaper editorial policy; columns by Nick B. Williams, 9/26/1971, "They don't horsewhip editors, do they?" (plus other columns) and James Bassett (no date), "The battle of the analysts"; LAT article on staffer jailed briefly for refusal to answer a question in court, (1987); tear sheet from The Review, 12/1972, "It can happen here; ask Bill Farr"; duplicate material.
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Approx. 12 items: LAT clip, 2/10/1963, "Times opening Wall St. Bureau, broadens financial news coverage"; handwritten list - bureau locations, start dates, staffers; articles>, Among Ourselves, 11/1928, "Our Washington Bureau"; AO, 10/1965, "Zeman heads Times bureau in Sacramento"; AO, 4/1966, "Times bureau in New York opens May 1"; Editor & Publisher, 8/16/1980, "New bureau offices visited by Carter"; tear sheet & copy, Women's Wear Daily, 8/4/1980, "Eye" (name dropping column) - described cocktail party to open DC bureau; article, Wash. Post, 8/1/1980, "The best of Times, all night long"; etc.
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1 item: tear sheet of 3/29/1989 Editorial Page complete with the logo, the Masthead, "Letters to The Times" and the day's editorials.
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3 items. Materials include: 3-pp. (small tan-colored sheets) random info and notes, typed 1944, on "Junior Times" and "Home Service," LAT sections that existed in 1891; memo from Tom Johnson to Exec. Comm. Group, 12/18/1979, opens "...proceed on plans to split our Daily VIEW section into two parts, VIEW and an arts-entertainment section, effective Jan. 21"; tear sheet, Among Ourselves, 2/1975, "A paper needs more than hard news: specialized sections are the answer."
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