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Departments - Editorial - Carrier Pigeon Service
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Departments - Editorial - News Bureaus - Domestic
Manuscripts
Approx. 12 items: LAT clip, 2/10/1963, "Times opening Wall St. Bureau, broadens financial news coverage"; handwritten list - bureau locations, start dates, staffers; articles>, Among Ourselves, 11/1928, "Our Washington Bureau"; AO, 10/1965, "Zeman heads Times bureau in Sacramento"; AO, 4/1966, "Times bureau in New York opens May 1"; Editor & Publisher, 8/16/1980, "New bureau offices visited by Carter"; tear sheet & copy, Women's Wear Daily, 8/4/1980, "Eye" (name dropping column) - described cocktail party to open DC bureau; article, Wash. Post, 8/1/1980, "The best of Times, all night long"; etc.
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Departments - Editorial - Educational Services
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3 items: article copy, Among Ourselves, 4/1961, "Times Student Outlook presents weekly reports on current events"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 9/1968, "(Dan) Moore named special assistant to (Otis) Chandler" - Moore had been director of educational services at LAT from 1961 until 1968; LAT clipping, 7/19/1975, "Daniel Moore, authority on education, dies at 51.".
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Departments - Editorial - Editorial Library
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Approx. 20 items. Materials include: article copy, Among Ourselves, 4/1960, "Times, Mirror news libraries are key information centers"; 1-pp., copied from a history of LAT, the writer seems to be Harrison Gray Otis, because, in referring to the aftermath of the 1910 explosion and fire at LAT, the text reads, "I have been gradually collecting books...for a reference library, and...am keeping them at 'The Bivouac' [Otis's home on Wilshire Blvd.], (rather than) the temporary editorial rooms of The Times."; 3-pp. memo, 2/23/1954, "Defendant's pre-trial memorandum - The Times-Mirror Co. vs. U.S. of America"; 46-pp. spiral-bound report, "Editorial Library - User Survey," by Cecily J. Surace, 11/1980; 19-pp. report by graduate students in library / information science (Livia Di Mare/Glenn Johnson-Grau) on the Edit. Lib., 1992, recounting the history, services, resources, and research practices, and describing departments within the library; articles on the library from AO, 1927, 1976; info on LAT database's availability on Nexis; 11-pp. booklet, 12/1982, "Guide to the (LAT) Editorial Library"; article copy, CD-ROM Professional (mag), "Searching Los Angeles Times DIALOG OnDisc: The Times Editorial Library Experience," by Dorothy Ingebretsen and Steven Tice; plus assorted brief reports on aspects of the library.
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Departments - Editorial - Food Section
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6 items. Material includes: note on blue card, "Cookbooks in file cabinet in reception room"; Pg. 1 of Food Section, 8/29/1963, lead story headline, "Labor Day work savers"; 2-pp. news release, "Times introduces redesigned food section"; copy, Among Ourselves, 10/1931, of (first page only) article, "New demonstration kitchen for cooking class," note attached, "see...AO for rest of article"; Pg. 1, LAT Food Section, 4/5/1962, copies, Pg. 1, Pt. 1 announcement and Pg. 1 of "FOOO for the Family" section, 4/5/1962.
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Departments - Editorial - Opinion Section
Manuscripts
2 items: reproduction of Opinion Page One for 1/31/1988, with headline "GLASNOST - Truth helps, truth hurts"; article, Editor & Publisher, 5/21/1994, "Expression by Advertisement," explaining a criticism State Sen. Tom Hayden had regarding LAT; various issues of Among Ourselves from 1949, 1974, etc., showcasing articles on the philosophy and operation of LAT Editorial Pages. Oversize pencil and pen drawing of Editorial page eagle logo remove to Reference File - Oversize box.
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Communications - Carrier Pigeon Service to Santa Catalina Island
Manuscripts
1 item: tear sheet of Jack Smith's column, Los Angeles Times Magazine, 2/23/1986, "Wings across the water," on the carrier pigeon mail service from Avalon, Catalina Island, to Los Angeles, between 1894 and 1902.
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