Manuscripts

"What Your Newspaper Means..."

Description: Two copies of the booklet, "What Your Newspaper means to you and Your Family."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1959
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Promotional Items

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items. Materials include: 8.5" x 11" booklet, "What your newspaper means to you and your family" (ca. 1962); info packet (inside paper envelope) copies of historical page ones, etc.; miniature "plates" for "Walk on Moon," 1969, and 1984 Olympics Special Sections; other LAT ephemera.

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Flannes, Robert

Manuscripts

10 items: article copy, Editor & Publisher, 12/12/1959, "New subscriber told what the paper means," describing the booklet given with each new LAT subscription ; letter, 12/23/1959, from Ben Cowdery (VP, The World-Herald, Omaha) to Norman Chandler, congratulating him on his successes ; reply to previous, by R.F. Flannes, in NC's absence ; letter, 1/13/1960, from Cowdery to Flannes (see above) thanking him for sending two copies of the LAT booklet, "What your newspaper means to you." ; letter and 4-pp. transcript of radio broadcast by Joseph M. Webb of KPFK radio titled "The USE of David Shaw by the L.A. Times" (10/1975) ; packet of four items -- letters, press releases and an article from Editor & Publisher on profit reports revenues from 4/1976.

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"Your Rights, Your Future"

Manuscripts

Two copies of "Your Rights, Your Future" - booklet prepared by LAT for honorably discharged World War II -era military personnel to explain their rights and benefits.

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Rude Awakening - Notes

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items: notes, clippings and other material. Notable items include: 6-pp. booklet, "What The Times stands for," 1969 ; multi-page satiric booklet, "The People's Choice, or, Mix your own candidate" by Andre Dugo ; newspaper and magazine article copies on various subjects - Mormonism, the First Amendment, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's thoughts on American hedonism, etc. ; notes, both typed and handwritten.

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American Society of Newspaper Editors

Manuscripts

Approx.45 items: correspondence, reports and booklets related to ASNE and that organization's activities. Copy of ASNE magazine, The Bulletin, for 4/1975. Two copies of booklet, "Who's doing what to whom and why?" - remarks of Arthur Taylor, President CBS Inc. before the Financial Executives Institute, New Orleans, LA, 10/21/1975.

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Newspaper Guild drive

Manuscripts

Flier/article from the Los Angeles Newspaper Guild about cutbacks and layoffs at the Times with handwritten notes refuting many of the claims; list of Guild represented newspapers; anti-union memo entitled "What the Guild Won't Tell You" originally stamped CONFIDENTIAL.

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