Manuscripts
Chronological File - September
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Chronological File - March
Manuscripts
Approx. 95 items. Subjects include: further responses to "liberal columnists" charge by readers; partial editorial guest list for dinner in honor of Otis C.'s Tenth Anniversary as Publisher, including Jack Smith, Bill Thomas, Tony Day, NBW and others; invitation to Gen. William Peers to lunch with LAT Editorial Board for "off-the-record" talk; response to alarm of fans of "Li'l Abner" comic strip after cancellation--ditto "Dick Tracy", including reader who believed LAT was canceling certain comics because of conservative viewpoints ; the My Lai incident (Vietnam War); 3-pp. on "interpretive reporting" (3/20/1970); letter to John Chafee, Sec. of Navy; assuring readers that LAT included a spectrum of political thought; letter to George Mair of KNX on unpaid ads; letter (3/19/1970) to Chester Gould, cartoonist of "Dick Tracy"; the "Paul Conrad serves a useful purpose" (form) letter to Col. C.W. Hoffman of Santa Barbara who had canceled LAT subscription; "dope traffic" in USA and So. Cal. (3/10/1970); 3-pp. response on LAT-Morrie Ryskind-Black Panthers issue; letter (3/5/1970) to Richard Baker of Columbia Journalism Review, challenging elements of a CJR article on the Tate Case (Manson murders) and My Lai (Vietnam) mentioning LAT; letter to cartoonist Al Capp explaining that LAT "had no ulterior reasons...for dropping 'Lil Abner' beyond (improving readership)"; letter (3/2/1970) to Dorothy Bowen, Public Relations, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, on info for Calendar listings; etc.
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Chronological File - May
Manuscripts
Approx. 60 items. Subjects include:newsprint reclamation; more "Conrad serves a useful purpose" letters; outcome and comments on Peggy Harford lawsuit against LAT (5/8/1970); explanation to reader of what a Conrad cartoon meant, which showed Nixon baring his stomach (5/7/1970); letters responding to Westridge (all-girl school in Pasadena) students on topic of pollution; letter telling a Little League official from SF Valley that Paul Conrad was a Little League official in Palos Verdes; (5/6/1970) "West and Home" [magazines] are over budget" - followed by details; (5/5/1970) letter to John Veneman, HEW Undersecretary; letter to Chester Gould, "Dick Tracy" cartoonist, after LAT canceled the strip; letter to Herbert Brucker of Stanford on proposed Ethics Committee for American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE), 5/4/1970.
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Chronological File - November
Manuscripts
Approx. 90 items. Letters and memos. Subjects include: Resthaven Psychiatric Hospital; letter to Ken Kantor, Press Editor, NBC (11/22/1970); invitation to Sen. Alan Cranston to "shoot the breeze" with Editorial Board (11/25/1970); the purchase of Tom Curtis editorial cartoons; Suburban section expansion and mast-heads (11/24); letter to Judge William Gray, U.S. District Court (Cent. Calif.); 2-pp. letter to D.J. Bergeron, Pres. of Jet-Lube, on the topic of "The Times Comic Page"; (11/20) letter to Ted Weegar about suspicion that KIBS-radio in Bishop, CA, is reading "Page 2" verbatim; letters congratulating NBW on receipt of the USC Journalism Award; letters on various comics, including "Gasoline Alley" ; (11/17) brief letter to George Gallup of Gallup Poll; more "Paul Conrad serves a useful purpose" letters; letter defending the cancellation of "Dick Tracy" and Daily Bible Verses; letter to Ed Reap saying "Jack Smith's book is one hell of a promotion (for LAT)"; the cartoon "Love Is" being issued as a book; (11/13) discussion of NY Times Editorial Pages and ideas for LAT version--including frequent use of "literate" letters "that blast us"; on San Gabriel Zone and new Southeast Zone; (11/9) changes to Page 1 of View; West's Arizona issue; seminars on the future of print media; etc.
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Chronological File - June
Manuscripts
Approx. 85 items. Letters and memos. Selected addressees and subjects: student unrest in USA and worldwide: Kirk Polking, Editor of Writer's Digest; Harvey Wheeler, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions; many letters to readers, both pleased and displeased; discussion with Arthur Laro, Exec. VP of the Syndicate that provided "Dick Tracy," on the virtues and faults of the comic strip; positive reaction to Jim Murray's column on RFK assassination; Israeli Ambassador Rabin coming to LAT for off-the-record discussions; etc.
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Chronological File - February
Manuscripts
Approx. 90 items. Letters, memos. Subjects and correspondents include: (2/25/71) lighthearted note to Paul Bovarnick of Claremont Men's College, on LAT vs. NY Times; memo to Otis Chandler on efforts to "wrench our Editorial Library into the 20th Century"; letter to David Riley of Claremont MC on the The Christian Science Monitor newspaper; (2/24/71) letter to Chester Gould, cartoonist of "Dick Tracy"; (2/24/71) memo to Otis Chandler - "the major political parties...(are now) gearing their national nominating conventions to television"; flap about Dr. Frederick Stare and his LAT column; more "Conrad serves a useful purpose" letters; (1/23/71) memo on upcoming visit to LAT of Sec. of Labor James Hodgson; exchange with Supervisor Warren Dorn on coverage of Rams and pro football; letter (2/11/71) to David Laventhol, Newsday Editor, about writer Hannah Achtenberg; etc.
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Chronological File - June
Manuscripts
Approx. 180 items. Letters, memos. Subjects include: letter to Chester Gould, "Dick Tracy" cartoonist, a 2nd follow-up (at least) to correspondence from him on strip's cancellation (6/29/1970); as always, more "Conrad serves a useful purpose" letters; letters to readers on Black activist Angela Davis, reading in part, "It's not her avowed communism that bugs me...it is the racial hatred which she preaches (6/29/1970, et al); letters to readers who sided with Spiro Agnew against The Press; classic letter (6/29/1970) to abusive reader diplomatically putting him in his place; response to reader who felt Conrad and Interlandi were un-patriotic (or whatever) -- "(both) are veterans of World War II and fought overseas"; letter (6/25/1970) to reader who complained that LAT had run a series on lesbians--"Homosexuality has occurred throughout the history of civilization...ignoring it...has not lessened its prevalence"; letter (6/25/'70) to James Thorpe, Director, Huntington Library & Art Gallery; classic letter responding to criticisms of Conrad--"(he) grew up in the Midwest, attended a Midwestern university, served this country overseas during World War II, married and is the father of four children...." (6/25/1970); letter to Editor of Oroville (CA) Mercury-Register criticizing their editorial that held LAT had dropped two comic strips because of the "political philosophy" contained in them (6/25/1970); letter on Nixon's "Guam Doctrine," and on Vietnam policy generally; letter to Katherine Graham, Pres., Washington Post (6/22/1970); operations at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore; storage of bound volumes of LAT "since its inception," includes discussion of microfilm material and costs; the 1970 budget; (6/16/'70) the objectivity of U.S. News & World Report and The Media and the Vietnam War; 3-pp. letter to reader in which NBW states-"I (now) believe the Vietnam war was a tragic mistake..." (6/12/1970); further explanations on low readership being the reason for canceling "Lil Abner" and "Dick Tracy," not politics; "The Times believes that in addition to private enterprise, there is such a thing as the public interest (6/12/1970); more "Paul Conrad is a social critic...serves a useful purpose" letters; LAT supports Nixon on some issues, not on others; many responses to readers who believed LAT was trying to undermine the Nixon administration; to a subscriber who cancelled - "(LAT) could now best be described as middle-of-the-road" (6/3/'70); several responses to readers who believed that LAT condoned student rioting; personal letter to Walter O'Malley, Chairman of Dodgers; response to reader who felt LAT was promoting Sen. Edward Kennedy and burying negative stories about him; (6/2/1970) response to reader who alleges that journalists are "almost 100% far left liberals"; etc.
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