Manuscripts

Ramsdell, Kirby

Description: 8 items. Memos and reports. 17 pp. report on organized labor by Ramsdell; 7 pp. "underlying facts and assumptions" & excerpts of the Kaiser Committee report on the company and its employees; operation of Editorial Pages; items in letters column that include personal attacks; rapid transit debate; from 1962, a multi-page report to Williams by Ramsdell providing his impressions and opinions of a dozen or more syndicated op-ed columnists LAT used at the time, including Joseph Alsop, William F. Buckley, Jr., Roscoe Drummond, Barry Goldwater, Walter Lippman, Drew Pearson and Abigail Van Buren (the last two receiving very low marks); etc.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1962
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,

The Mirror-Syndicate Features

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items. Subjects include multiple-page list of Mirror Syndicate Features--columnists, features on advice, bridge, science, show business, fashion, health, religion, crosswords, astrology, cartoons, etc.; correspondence related to contracts for syndicated materials; etc.

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Chronological File - March

Manuscripts

Approx. 90 items. Letters and memos. Subjects include: banning cigarette advertising; (3/4/1969) full-page + letter to Ben Bradlee of Washington Post; letter to Jacob Jaffe, Chair, Journalism Dept., Long Island U.; Williams states, in letter to reader, that "the heyday of the syndicated columnists is passed," because "their opinions are usually so predictable," and more (3/6/1969); cost of William F. Buckley, Jr.'s column; responses to a number of aspiring authors who had offered books for LAT to publish; letter planning lunch meeting between LAT staffers (and Otis Chandler) and the Board of the Automobile Club of Southern California; responses to reader complaints (often about Conrad); letter to Eliot Janeway (a briefly "hot" economist); several letters to Herbert Brucker of Stanford; "free ticket" situation in Sports and entertainment departments; letter to Dr. Will Durant, historian (3/27/1969; etc.

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Miscellaneous reports

Manuscripts

5 items (in 3 packets): approx. 10-pp. - "Los Angeles TImes Executive Seminar - Santa Barbara Biltmore, (5/10 - 5/13/1979), program and other info ; approx. 25-pp. - "Major assumptions & projections to the Year 2000," Newspaper Advertising Bureau, Inc. ; 16-pp. - "Future of The Times" memo, written by Jim Shaffer.

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Co-op Advertising

Manuscripts

3 items: Intro page (?), in outline form ; 22-pp. script headed "Co-op Advertising presentation" ; 9-pp. numbered list of (slides ?)

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Editorials & Articles

Manuscripts

Reprints of editorials, articles, and reports originally published in the Los Angeles Times. 2 items: 5-pp., including ad, (LAT) "Retiree's Guide to Tax Changes on Social Security Benefits," by Kathy M. Kristof, 1993; copy LAT article, 6/6/1994, "Times Mirror shows old rules may no longer apply," by John Lippman.

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Thomas, William F

Manuscripts

1 item: 42-pp. transcript (pp. 100 - 141) of interview of Bill Thomas (LAT Editor) by Marshall Berges. Notable names and subjects include: Lyndon B. Johnson ; LAT in relation to Times Mirror Corporation and other holdings (pp. 105 - 106) ; memories of backlash over a Robert Scheer article on the Jewish community that was not well received in all quarters (pp. 107 - 110+) ; wide-ranging memories of incidents and people at LAT during the 1960s and 1970s ; Thomas answers the question, "Do we need an editorial page?" (pp. 122 - 124) ; moving Conrad's cartoons to Op Ed (pp. 125 - 126) ; political polls, Mervin Field, etc. (pp. 127 - 129) ; more.

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