Manuscripts

Feiffer, Jules - Complaints

Description: Approx. 25 items: collection of letters protesting a specific Jules Feiffer cartoon implying that returning POWs during the Vietnam war were being coached regarding what to say to the press. A copy of the cartoon itself is included. The standard response letter over Bellows signature began, "Thanks for sounding off on the Feiffer cartoon...(he) exceeded the bounds of good taste in that cartoon."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1973
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.

Bellows, Jim

Manuscripts

Approx. 7 items: packet of items (one dated in 1969) related to the death of Maggie Savoy Bellows, Women's Editor of Los Angeles Times in the late 1960s and into 1970 ; letter, 10/1/1975, to James Bellows from Jim Bassett on Bellows "role on The Times" ; 2-pp. of "Questions for James Bellows" ; article copy from Los Angeles Times, 10/30/1966, "Bellows, N.Y. Herald Tribune Editor, will join Times Dec. 5" ; article copy, Wall St. Journal, 11/5/1975, "Perils of a paper..."

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Foreign Countries - Vietnam

Manuscripts

Approx. 60 items: copies, tear sheets and reprints of LAT news stories and editorials on the Vietnam conflict. They trace the evolution of U.S. involvement from a scattering of advisors in the early 1960s, through the negotiations, to the pullout of the mid 1970s. A sampling of headlines: 12/18/1961, "The deepening war in Vietnam"; 2/20/1966, "Vietnam... a complicated crisis"; 6/7/1970, "Get out of Vietnam NOW."

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Editorial Auditor

Manuscripts

6 items. Memos regarding hiring, promotions or pay for Ray Kendall (music staff), Ayn Rand, William Frye, Hall Syndicate (for Feiffer), the Home Line column, Natl. Newspaper Syndicate's "Josephine" comic.

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WEST magazine - Discontinued

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items: letters from readers disappointed that LAT had discontinued West magazine along with the standard reply letter

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Standard & Poor's Business Forum

Manuscripts

Two copies of a speech given by Otis Chandler at the Standard & Poor's Business Forum Meeting in New York City on November 17, 1965. Also in this folder is a letter to Fred A. Stahl, President of Standard & Poor's Corporation, from Norman Chandler regarding sets of questions that are to be asked at the meeting, which are attached to this letter; the meeting's agenda and another copy of the set of questions.

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Complaint letters

Manuscripts

Approx. 95 items - complaint letters and responses on a wide range of subjects. Notable names and subjects: cigarette advertising ; X-rated motion picture advertising ; the Middle East conflict ; gun advertisments ; ads dealing with sexual health ; complaints that LAT seems to endorse marijuana use in an ad ; contraceptives ; The Joy of Sex ads ; more.

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Feiffer, Jules - Complaints

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