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Employees - Torgerson, Dial
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6 items: LAT article, 6/22/1983, "2 U.S. journalists killed in Honduras - L.A. Times' Torgerson and free-lancer die in grenade attack..."; LAT article, 6/23/1983, "Road led to a nowhere village - and to death"; article copy, 6/23/1983, "Torgerson's legacy..."; article copy, Among Ourselves, 7/1983, "Dial Torgerson - 1928 - 1983"; tear sheet and copy of "Letters to the Editor" on Torgerson, 6/27/1983.
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Young Timers
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4 items: four issues of Young Timers, a magazine/newsletter for LAT newsboys - Nov. - Dec. 1952, Sept. - Oct. 1955, Jan. - Feb. 1956, July - August 1957.
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Letterhead Samples
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Approx. 26 items. Several duplicate examples of LAT stationary and envelopes with letterhead. Also, a 1987 letter regarding the finding of a specimen of 1913 LAT letterhead, which is attached. 5 copies of a form letter from Times-Mirror to LAT, dated 3/12/1919, with instructions regarding use of uniform letter formats across all departments. Also one business card for "LaRue Prior - Assistant Manager, Telephone Sales Division..."
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Classified Times
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7 items: seven complete issues of Classified Times - February, March, May, June, September, October and December, 1979.
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History - Publications - "In Times Past"
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Approx. 25 items. Photocopies of articles from the LAT employee newsletter, "Among Ourselves" and some items from column titled "In Times Past." Events reported include: "Aeroplane Delivers Times" (1911) - "the first time newspapers had been delivered by aeroplane"; "Widowed Grandmother Wins Times Model Home"; "Conrad Exhibit now on Display at County Museum" (1979); "Times helped organize the fight for transcontinental highway" (from a 1979 issue on a 1912 event); "A Photographic Romp through the 1950s"; etc.
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Departments - Marketing Research - Publications
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2 items: contact information for L.A. County Public Libraries, public libraries in Orange County, college & university libraries in Sou. Calif., municipal public libraries in L.A. County, and LAT Marketing Research Publications list; newsletter - 2-pp., "Media Watch," from LAT Marketing Research Dept., 12/3/1990.Approx. 30 items. Originals of issues of Three Minutes for the following months or seasons: January (2), February, May, June, July, Autumn (2), November (2) and December 1932 ; January, February, March, April, Summer, Autumn and November 1933 ; Summer 1934 ; Spring, May, November (2) and December (3) 1935 ; Spring (2) and May (2) 1936 ; one copy of a 1935 publication titled The Three Circles, "published in the interest of good printing and good advertising by Evans - Winter - Hebb Inc., of Detroit.
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