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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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4 items: LAT article copy, 2/14/1938 [Valentine's Day], "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood" (1st-ever column for LAT); another 1938 column; LAT article copy, "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood," 12/28/1941; LAT obit, 2/2/1966, "Hedda Hopper dies at 75, ending movie era.
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2 items: letter, 11/27/1964, to Norman Chandler "and Buff," from Joseph T.P. Sullivan ; letter, 12/1/1964, to Sullivan from Norman Chandler. The letters involve congratulations from Sullivan to the Chandlers on the opening of The Music Center, and an invitation to attend a dinner in NYC with Sullivan, then Norman Chandler's responses.
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1 item: packet of approx. 20-pp., including an agenda / outline for the Annual Meeting in the Harry Chandler Auditorium, 5/14/1963, plus a script / outline of Norman Chandler's speech for the meeting. 1 item: 27-pp. script for introduction of officers and speech text for Norman Chandler's speech to the Annual Shareholders Meeting, 1964.
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Articles (photocopies) regarding the 1955 Women of the Year winners and awards. The women are Dr. Ruth Boak, Miss Louise Brough, Mrs. Nelbert Chouinard, Sister Frederica, Hedda Hopper, Marion Pike, Rose Marie Reid, Mrs. Henry Salvatori, Ruth Patricia Shellhorn, and Dorothy Kirsten.
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5 items: four letters from President Dwight Eisenhower to Norman Chandler, spanning the years 1955 to 1959 ; copy of a 1959 Los Angeles Times article mentioning Norman Chandler and Eisenhower. Original Eisenhower letters removed from Autograph File and returned to Norman Chandler collection. FACSIMILES MAY NOT BE COPIED OR PUBLISHED.
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1 item: 25-pp. typed and annotated transcript of interview with Norman Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler, 12/13/1972 and photocopy of the annotated transcript. Subjects include: on Harry Chandler, Norman Chandler says, "he liked (people) and he had a soft heart," Dorothy Buffum Chandler said of him, "He was not a generous man to his family, nor to people close to him" (pp. 1 - 2) ; Dorothy Buffum Chandler says that Harry Chandler upheld rigid discipline for Norman Chandler but that Harrison Chandler and Philip "were not in any way disciplined" (pp. 3) ; Harry Chandler's personality quirks (pp.-4) ; more on Harry Chandler personality (pp.-5) ; Harry Chandler's political views (pp.-7) ; DC offers that Harry Chandler would talk of business and politics but never anything philosophical (pp. 7) ; on how Norman Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler lived "very economically...scratch(ing) to make ends meet" (pp. 10) ; William Randolph Hearst (pp. 11 - 12) ; Harry Chandler's travel across USA in 1880s (pp. 17 - 18) ; Los Angeles Times was "the first newspaper in the country to set up a personnel department" (pp. 22) ; Harry Chandler and Norman Chandler on running for public office (pp. 24 - 25).
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