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Chronological File - March
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Chronological File - February
Manuscripts
Approx. 55 items. Williams' letters and memos. Recipients include: J. Edward Murray (Managing Editor, Arizona Republic); Lawrence Dietz (Editor, Cheetah); James Loper (VP, GM, KCET); responses to readers complaints regarding missing comic strips or anger at Conrad; Robert T. Hood (LACMA); Veikko Huttunen (Consul Gen. of Finland in L.A.); James Boylan (Editor, Columbia Journalism Review); many memos to Frank Haven (LAT);etc.
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Chronological File - March
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Approx. 90 items. Letters, memos. Subjects and correspondents include: reply to reader who accused NBW and columnists he disliked of being "owned by the Chandlers"; letter to Charles Bennett, Editor of The Oklahoman, informing him that NBW and James Bassett would be resigning from their posts with ASNE as of Spring 1971, and suggesting the names of Robert Donovan and Anthony Day as replacements (3/30/1971; a letter in which NBW admits that he is "the man who fiddles with the comic page," because "an editor must have something to do to pass the time"; (3/29) letter on LAT editorial on SST (Super sonic transport); plans for meeting between "key members of the editorial staff" and "not more than five members of the trial lawyers association" (3/30/'71); letter to David Laventhol (Newsday) - "I hope it's no secret that I am an admirer of Newsday"; (3/23) 3-pp.letter to Otis Chandler on several topics, incl. a plan to specify "senior editors" to be "super-reporters of subjects"; letter to Ashraf Ghorbal, Minister Plenipotentiary, United Arab Republic Interests Section, NYC; 2-pp. letter to Kathleen Carr on NBW' college education and his interest in archeology; (3/22/'71) letter to Janet Foulkes on the virtues (or not) of several comic strips; several letters to Robert Chandler, Editor/Publisher., The Bulletin (Bend, OR); (3/11/'71) 3-pp. reply to Dan Jamison, CMC student, on his criticisms of LAT coverage of the Manson trial and the Nixon administration); (3/9) letter to J. Edward Murray, Arizona Republic, explaining some of the changes among top LAT staffers; the John Anson Ford memoirs.
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Chronological File - January - March
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Approx. 60 items. Letters and memos. Subjects and correspondents include: two letters of 3/23, one to Libby Afflerbach, Editor, The Daily Skiff (Texas Christian U.), suggesting she contact LAT Editor William Thomas during her post-graduation job hunt, "just for the hell of it," and one to Thomas describing Afflerbach as "serious, aggressive in an un-repulsive way, alert mind...(not) a sexpot type...I'd guess she had potential"; more regrets sent for invitations to speak, etc., because of the "short notice" nature of NBW tasks for Otis Chandler; 16-pp. text (orange paper clip) for NBW Walter Humphrey Memorial Address, delivered at Texas Christian U. on topic of press freedom; (2/23) 2-pp. memo to Otis Chandler on "Associated Press rates"; letter to James Tilford of Florida refuting Tilford's assertion that major US newspapers "work together" to shape political opinions--NBW says "It just ain't so"; (2/15) memo to Otis C. on the "Ditchley Conference on the Pacific and East Asia"; more short, chatty letters to readers: (2/3) letter to reader John Daly on "what is news, what constitutes advertising?" and on junkets, freeloading and "favors" in the news game; (1/20) 3-pp. letter to Rivian Taylor, Asso. Editor of The Daily Trojan at USC, critiquing a special edition of that student publication; (1/19) letter to Earl Foell, Editor, Christian Science Monitor; etc.
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NFL Pro Bowl Chronological File
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Approx. 55 items: letters, memos, reports and other materials related to Pro Bowl game. Names in the correspondence include: Pete Rozelle (Commissioner, NFL) ; George R. Hearst, Jr. (Publisher, L.A. Herald-Examiner) ; more.
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Chronological File - August
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Approx. 75 items. Letters and memos. Subjects include: some brief letters to persons W. had met socially; note to Bill Thomas on the "recurrent rumor" that some LAPD officers were purchasing and carrying on duty "machine guns and automatic rifles"; letter to A.S. "Doc" Young, Editor of L.A. Sentinel, trading thoughts on the role of newspapers and editors; memo to Otis Chandler on how "close to home" the L.A. Times Syndicate should sell the Times-Post newsservice, for example--Fresno? San Diego??; increasing the number of "articles of a current sociological nature"; W. suggests to Almena Lomax (African-American journalist) that she collect her writings into a book and also contacts Edward Kuhn, Exec. VP of New American Library, that it should be considered for publication, and puts Lomax in touch with Kuhn; long (4+ pp.) memo to Frank Haven on "extensive reorientation of the thinking and the methods of many of our reporters..." (8/16/1968); "new directions" memo to Otis C. (8/16/1968); letter to Editor of San Gabriel Valley Daily Tribune-- "I...go along with the idea of newspapers not attacking each other [without] direst necessity" (8/16/1968); still another answer to the charge that LAT is "completely leftish"--W. writes of his own political stance, "I consider myself a political moderate, a little right of center, a Republican since Truman..."; more on Conrad as a great cartoonist that W. does not always agree with;
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Chronological File - August
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Approx. 85 items. Letters / memos. Subjects include: add Newsday columnist Nick Thimmensch to LAT; gun registration, gun control; NBW's letter inviting Sheriff Peter Pitchess to speak to Twilight Club, a Pasadena-area group of "movers & shakers"; response to a letter from Bishop James Pike (8/7/1969) written a month before Pike's death in desert near Dead Sea; letter to William Loeb, Publisher, Manchester Union Leader; letter to U.S. Rep. Chet Holifield (re: Fenner Canyon Job Corps facility); form letters to readers who questioned a photo of Nixon and Sen. Ted Kennedy together; letter to Norton Simon, head of Hunt Foods/philanthropist); several cover letters that went with copies of "what Yuri Zhukov wrote in Pravda about trip to the United States...(these) 6 articles will give you an exact picture of how the mind of a skilled Communist Russian editorialist works"; 2-pp. NBW memo to Otis Chandler on whether or not the American Society of Newspaper Editors can ever "assume any very serious role as an arbiter of what is good or bad in journalism"; more to readers on Conrad "serv(ing) a useful purpose"; letter to U.S. Circuit Judge Irving Kaufman; letters to staffers in the Southeast thanking them for great hurricane coverage; ABM (missiles); smog; NBW (form) letter to Warren Christopher inviting him to speak at The Twilight Club ; letter to U.S. Rep. Glenard Lipscomb; letter to Robert U. Brown, Publisher/Editor of Editor & Publisher, on why that publication ran a story on opinion writers "ideological swing" that portrays LAT columnists as being all liberals, and which NBW calls "damned poor journalism"; to Robert Finch, HEW Sec.; to State Sen. John Harmer on Indian affairs; etc.
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