Manuscripts

Quinn, Joseph

Description: 1 item: LAT tear sheet, 1/17/1979, "Reunion at Quinn services...2 generations of politicians attend rites," which read in part, "[the late] Dep. Mayor Joseph M. Quinn...had great influence in his 12 years at City Hall under Mayor Yorty, and as owner of City News Service...Quinn, who suffered from a heart ailment, died Saturday at 66."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1979
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.

Quinn, Joseph M

Manuscripts

5 items: article copy, Newsweek, 2/12/1968, "Yortytoons," makes reference to poor relations between Otis Chandler / Los Angeles Times and politician Sam Yorty (beginning in 1961 when Los Angeles Times supported Yorty's mayoral opponent) ; 2-pp. bio for Joseph Martin Quinn, ca. 1975 ; two copies of "Taping with Joseph M. Quinn," 3/11/1975 ; letter, 3/25/1975, to Quinn from Bassett accompanying copies of the transcript.

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Yorty, Sam - 1961, 1963-1965

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items. Subjects include: internal memos discussing Yorty and his relationship with LAT; discussion of Yorty's affinity for news anchor George Putnam; colorful marginal notes about Yorty by Otis C. and others; 1963 invitation for W. to attend Yorty birthday party at Hollywood Palladium and W.'s regrets; Yorty claims that LAT material was "purposely one-sided," etc. Otis C. wrote marginal notes critical of Yorty. In red pencil he wrote on an August 1963 Mayoral letter --"A real kook with impossible emotions," and "[Yorty is] always looking for someone to give him sympathy."

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Yorty, Sam (1 of 2)

Manuscripts

Approx. 100 items: LAT news stories, editorials and other material on Sam Yorty, long-time mayor of Los Angeles and unsuccessful candidate for various other offices. Yorty first appeared in stories in the 1930s as a State Assemblyman, later served in the U.S. House, and in City politics, rising to the Mayorship. Also recorded here are the feuds between LAT (esp. Otis C.) and Yorty, campaigns pitting Yorty against Tom Bradley, etc. Split into two folders.

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Yorty, Sam (2 of 2)

Manuscripts

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Yorty, Sam - 1970-1973

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items. Letters, press clippings, Yorty newsletters, etc. Subjects include: discussion of a new charter for L.A.; 1970 "Yorty for Governor" press release; issues related to Indochina war; LAT gives very strong editorial endorsement to Tom Bradley for mayor, stating that Yorty's 8-yr. record as mayor was one of "bickering and weak leadership, racial divisiveness and clowning absenteeism on world-wide junkets" and more; etc.

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Wyman, Eugene L

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Three letters of correspondence. Two letters to Otis Chandler from Eugene L. Wyman, of the Law Offices of Wyman, Bautzer, Finell & Rothman, in which he forwards to Chandler a copy of a letter sent to Hedley Donovan, Editor-in-Chief of Time Magazine, from Mayor Sam Yorty. The second letter also has a Yorty attachment along with a photocopy of an article. The third letter is to Wyman from Freddie Miller.

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