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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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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
Approx. 20 items. Material relates to a demand for retraction by Frank "One Eye" Dragna through his San Diego attorney, Rock Zaitzow. Certain pieces of information were provided, including "mug shots" of Dragna and some of his associates. Interoffice memos and notes from columnist Drew Pearson are in the file. In the end, the Times did print a correction stating that some claims in the article were found to be unsubstantiated. There was also a small number of items related to another complaint involving Abundavita Corp., actor Bob Cummings and right-winger Rev. Billy J. Hargis.
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2 items: 21-pp. report on "1959 Home Magazine Survey," in blue spiral-bound folder ; article copy, 1/29/1961, "The culmination of a year's work," by Nick B. Williams, which describes the process of preparing an issue of Home magazine.
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Approx. 12 items. Material relates to the response of Valley Paper Co. (Holyoke, MA) to a story on 9/17/1962 mentioning the company. Representatives of the company took exception to statements made in the article. One element of the controversy dealt with an early "secret" marriage of John F. Kennedy.
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8 items. Material includes clipping of LAT San Fernando Valley (Sect. K) for 9/20/1962. Story title is "Twin Lakes Holds Firm Against Modernization." Also letter of complaint about the article and in-house memos related to the situation, and a memo to Williams from Richard Adams recommending "that the newspaper...not publish a retraction..."
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2 items. A July 1960 Williams letter to the editor of the ASNE Bulletin, in response to an article titled "Hollywood Hogwash." Also LAT op-ed piece from 12/11/1960 by Williams.
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Approx. 15 items. Subjects include: the "death" of Wyndham Mooring; quoting testimony in depositions; reference to Whitcomb Motor Hotel as "dreary, run-down"; demand for correction from attorney for O.H. English (bookmaking raid); material defining and discussing libel; correspondence from Mae Murray; etc. Mae Murray correspondence removed from Autograph File and returned to Williams Subject files.
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