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Newspapers - Miscellaneous
Manuscripts
Approx. 30 items: selected clips, copies, etc, from LAT, from magazines and from other newspapers on the newspaper "scene" in Los Angeles. Notable items: chapter copied from book, Jazz Journalism...story of the tabloid newspapers, 1938 ; 17-pp. report (plus charts) from Princeton U. (in green folder), The Public appraises the newspaper [1958] ; article copied from Saturday Review, 5/13/1961, "Rating the American newspaper" ; reprint from Journalism Quarterly, Summer 1961, "The changing Sunday U.S. newspaper" ; 16-pp. report, William Hachten, U. of Wisconsin, 8/1961, "The future of Sunday newspapers" ; tear sheet, Newsweek, 11/29/1965, "What's wrong with newspapers?" ; complete issue, Rand Research Review, Spring 1985, cover story, "High technology and the newspaper industry" ; tear sheet, Forbes, 2/20/1989, "Are newspapers losing their audience? / Citizen Kane meets Adam Smith" ; tear sheet, Wall Street Journal, 6/23/1989, major article on that newspaper's Centennial, "One newspaper's century ...the inside story"; postcard of the Newsboy Fountain in Great Barrington, MA erected by William L. Brown (held controlling interest in the New York Daily News), 1985.
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Board of Directors - Chandler, Harrison
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Approx. 12 items: several news clips, 1968 - 1969; 2 info sheets for Martha Marsh Chandler (Mrs. Harrison Chandler), 1968; 2-pp. "Biographical Data" for Harrison Chandler, 8/1970; LAT obit, 4/29/1985, one tear sheet & one copy, "Harrison Chandler, 82, printing executive, dies."
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Approx. 10 items: several letters exchanged between Bassett and Robert Donovan ; 2-pp. (yellow) of "Questions for Bob Donovan" ; 13-pp. of responses to previous questions, Donovan to Bassett, 9/1975 ; newspaper and magazine article copies about Donovan ; single-sheet "Biography from the Los Angeles Times" for Donovan, n.d. ; 24-pp. transcript of interview, by Bassett, of Donald Douglas, Sr., 1/8/1973 ; 14-pp. transcript of - "...taping with Waldo Drake," 4/26/1973, who started on Los Angeles Times in 1922 on the waterfront "beat" and later became a foreign correspondent ; 6-pp. transcript of "conversation with Mrs. Wilma Drake, former Administrative Asst. to Mr. Norman Chandler." Original correspondence between Donald Douglas and Bassett removed from Autograph File and returned to Bassett files.
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Los Angeles - People
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1 item: 4-pp. tear sheet from Los Angeles (mag), 4/1985, "The 50 Richest People in Los Angeles."
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Employees - Scheuer, Philip
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4 items: 5-pp. bio packet, incl. photos, copies of clips by and about Scheuer, dated 3/2/1950; 2-pp. bio info, headed "Philip K. Scheuer - Assistant Editor, Drama Department," undated, written in first-person;LAT obit tear sheet, 2/19/1985, "Philip Scheuer, ex-Times film critic, dies"; LAT tear sheet, 2/23/1985, "Scheuer...aisle seat on history" (an appreciation by Charles Champlin).
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Miscellaneous
Manuscripts
Approx. 40 items: memos and reports related to the transition from old Home magazine to new Los Angeles Times Magazine. Notable items: 2-pp. speech by Stickell, 10/3/1985, "Remarks...to the Sales Departments..." ; exchange with Moritz Market Research ; Marketing Research trend charts, 6/5/1986 ; 6-pp. article copy, Columbia Journalism Review, "Sunday magazines - do they deserve to survive?" ; 9-pp. "1987 Magazine proposal" ; approx. 12-pp. package, "November Hall's Editorial Analysis," 2/3/1987 ;25+ pp."PIB/LNA Competitive Magazine Analysis," 6/1987 ; approx. 20-pp. packet (clear plastic cover).
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