Manuscripts

Douglas, Donald

Description: 7 items: photograph, LAT Archives, note on reverse reads, "Lieut. Ross McBride & Donald Douglas ; 3-pp. of reminiscences, delivered in first-person, on Donald Douglas ; single-sheet headed "About Donald Douglas (1972), sounding like an introduction at a dinner or such ; tear sheet, Santa Monica Evening Outlook, 5/17/1975, "Douglas shapes SM, aircraft industry" ; other compilations of facts on Douglas.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1928 - 1975
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.

Employees - Maxwell, Donald

Manuscripts

4 items: Management Bulletin, 7/29/1977, "Donald S. Maxwell, Controller of The Times, has been named Vice President and Controller of The Times effective (8/1/1977)"; "Los Angeles Times Organizational Chart," 8/1/1977; article copy, Editor & Publisher, 10/25/1980, "L.A. Times exec to be elected head of INCFO"; tear sheet, Editor & Publisher, 11/15/1980, "Editors opt for same voting hours nationwide."

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MacArthur, Douglas

Manuscripts

Approx. 8 items: LAT clips and tear sheets from the weeks immediately following the Japanese surrender of August, 1945. Articles deal with the activities of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, and one on Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, which mentions MacArthur.

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Newspapers - Los Angeles

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items: a selection of lists and chronologies providing bits of history on newspapers in Los Angeles back to Los Angeles Star (1851). Notable items: LAT clip, 12/4/1886, "Directory of Southern California newspapers" ; tear sheet, LAT Sunday Magazine, 9/4/1932, "The Newspapers of Los Angeles--their trials and tragedies" ; article copy, Time (mag), 1/12/1962, "Death in Los Angeles [of two newspapers]" ; copies, pp. 435 - 458, Journal of the West, 10/1963, "Newspapers of Los Angeles...the first 50 years" ; article copy, Los Angeles (mag), "The city's changing newspaper world" ; 6-pp. of charts, headed "Los Angeles Metropolitan Newspapers Weekday Circulation History, 1914 - 1970," statistics for 7 Los Angeles newspapers - The Times, Examiner, Herald, Express, Daily News, Evening News, and Record ; tear sheet, (Santa Monica) Evening Outlook, 10/13/1975, "Evening Outlook is 100 today" ; complete issue, The Reader, 8/8/1980, "The story of Los Angeles's two daily newspapers--Inking Big" ; tear sheet, The Reader, 11/27/1981, "This Sentinel [Black-owned newspaper] does more than stand guard" ; LAT tear sheet, 7/1/1985, "It's the Law! Daily Journal checks the pulse of L.A.'s legal community," a story on a paper that began publishing in L.A. in 1888.

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Articles

Manuscripts

6 items: tear sheet, Newsweek, 5/25/1970, "Newsday notice"; article, Highway News Bulletin, June-July 1970, "On its way...beautiful Downtown L.A."; LAT article copy, 7/2/1970, "Times Mirror completes Dallas merger"; tear sheet, California Business, 8/4/1970, "The new Times Mirror layout (p. 12); tear sheet, Editor & Publisher, 10/17/1970, "Newsday has plans only for Long Island"; cover + tear sheet, Business Week, 12/26/1970, on Times Mirror, "They found newspapers best after all."

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Articles on, 1980 - 1983

Manuscripts

Approx. Long article from Reader ("Los Angeles' Free Weekly"), 8/8/1980, "Inking Big: the story of Los Angeles's Two Daily Newspapers"; two copies (tear sheet & photocopy) of article from Newsweek, 9/22/1980, "Fat Times in Los Angeles"; tear sheet of "Our 20th Anniversary Celebration" from Los Angeles (mag), 7/1980, which contains mentions of LAT; also from Los Angeles, (12/1980) "They're all coming together--toward The Times"; several shorter articles, some on 1980 presidential elections. 5 items. Two tear sheets of long article from Los Angeles (mag) of 11/1981, "The Gray Lady of Spring Street Hits 100"; article from Advertising Age, 11/23/1981; reprinted text of speech by Jack Smith at LAT Centennial Dinner, 12/4/1981, "Our City, Our Times"; etc. 4 items. One complete copy of California (mag) of 10/1982, with major article on LAT, "Paper Giant: thick, rich, and slightly oppressive..."; tear sheet of previous article ; tear sheet of Washington Journalism Review, July-Aug. 1982, "The L.A. Times Reaches for the Top"; tear sheet from Media International, 12/1982, showing chart, "The World's 20 most reliable business journals (English language)," with LAT at #19. 5 items: multi-page tear sheet from feed/back, Fall 1983, "Framed," by Betty Medsger ; single tear sheet from feed/back, Fall 1983, "The night the lights went out in L.A." ; single tear sheet from Editor & Publisher, 1/29/1983,"Improved news product seen as ad growth key" ; single tear sheet from Adweek, 1/31/1983, "L.A. Times Chief Bullish on Newspapers in '83" ; multi-page tear sheet from feed/back, Fall 1983, "To code or not to code."

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Employees - Bellows, James

Manuscripts

7 items: article, Among Ourselves, 10/1966, "James Bellows joins Times (as Associate Editor)"; 10/28/1966, Otis Chandler's memo on appointment of Bellows as LAT Associate Editor; article copy, New West, 1/16/1978, "What's black and blue...", on Jim Bellow's becoming editor of L.A. Herald-Examiner ; tear sheet, 8/1/1978, Esquire, "Can Jim Bellows Save...(Herald-Exam.)"; tear sheet, LAT, 11/20/1981, "Editor of Herald Examiner resigns..."; tear sheet, LAT, 7/13/1983, "Bellows will develop a TV magazine for ABC"; tear sheet, LAT, 10/13/1988, "USA Today TV sets different direction";

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