Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
1 item: 35-pp. transcript of Otis Chandler being interviewed by KABC radio host Michael Jackson, 2/4/1981. Subjects include: Otis Chandler's title of "Editor-in-Chief," and what that means ; Otis' admiration for Henry Luce ; the 7-year "executive training program" he completed at The Times ; high and lower quality newspapers - Times of London, National Enquirer ; other Times Mirror papers - Hartford Courant, Newsday, Dallas Times Herald ; morning newspapers and afternoon newspapers ; the growing cable television market ; broadcasting vs. "narrowcasting" ; Otis' departure from the Publisher's post in 1980 ; more.
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Approx. 25 items (incl. several long reports): memos, financial reports and other material related to TM Steering Committee and TM National Marketing. Major reports: approx. 15-pp. report, "Times MIrror National Representation Study - Steering Committee Report #1," 6/29/1983 ; 30-pp. report, "TM National Representation Study - Steering Committee Report #3," 10/8/1983 (Dallas) ; 12-pp. "(Times Mirror) Steering Committee Report," 12/8/1983 ; 20+ pp. report - handwritten note reads "from (1/17/1984) meeting" - "The Times Mirror National Marketing Company" ; approx. 20-pp. report, "...Network of Leading Newspapers," 4/11/1986.
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5 items, five bound reports: "1980 Forecast for Los Angeles Times Planning Board - Vance Stickell" 8/5/1969 ; "Employee Benefit Recommendations for 1970 - 1971 - 1972" (Robert L. Flannes) ; "Dallas Newspaper Situation," a report on Dallas demographics, newspaper circulation and advertising lineage ; "Tucson, Arizona... The Market... Its Media," 2/178/1970 ; "Newsday," 3/2/1970. These reports range in length from 10 to 58-pp.
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Approx. 70 items: memos and reports. Notable (lengthy) items: approx. 12-pp. "Times Mirror National Sales Network" - Estimated 1985 Lineage...Revenue" ; approx. 12-pp. - "Times MIrror National Sales Network [ca. 1984].
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Approx. 65 items. Letters and memos. (Fewer famous names crop up among NBW correspondents after his retirement) Subjects and correspondents include: (6/27) NBW neatly refutes Ida Eaton of Palm Springs, who wrote saying - "one of the greatest threats to freedom of thought is freedom of the press"; (5/30) 9-pp. letter [brown paper clip] to James Chambers, Jr., of Dallas Times Herald, giving advice on problems at the Dallas paper; (5/4) letter to David Laventhol, Editor, Newsday, saying "With the issue of April 23 I think you've got it... [except for one item in Sports] I can't find a quibble"; (4/18) 11-pp. letter (red ppr clip) to Chambers, of Dallas Times Herald critiquing the April 3 - April 12 issues of that paper. NBW writes "the entire paper...has been goosed up...(but) there are a couple of points on which I have considerable doubts"; (4/10) 2-pp. memo to Otis Chandler on Times Herald issues; (4/5) letter to "Doc" Young on the ingredients of a successful newspaper; (4/3) 3-pp. memo to Otis Chandler on Newsday Editorial; etc.
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1 item: 14-pp. transcript - "Fourth taping with Otis Chandler," 8/4/1975. Subjects include: Otis Chandler's thoughts on the Watts riots and the aftermath (pp. 1 - 2) ; "foreign travel trips that the publisher, the editor and the editorial page director began (to take) in about 1963" (pp. 4) ; bringing "top-level governmental and business leaders into luncheons and conferences" (pp. 5) ; "big flap with Bill Moyers (who) blamed me for his having lost his job" at Newsday (pp. 6) ; thoughts on newspapers owned by Times Mirror, including Newsday and Dallas Times-Herald (pp. 6 - 8) ; Los Angeles Times' daily editorial board meetings (pp. 9 - 10) ; Los Angeles Times vs. N.Y. Times (pp. 12 - 14).
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