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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
Approximately 12 items. There is a 7-page typed review of Washington Irving's (Knickerbocker's) History of New York, which Bassett submitted as a radio script to Broadcast Music , Inc. (NY). Various business and personal letters are in the folder. There is a "Citation of Meritorious Service" that was awarded to Bassett by the American Legion "in recognition of his outstanding reporting for the Los Angeles Mirror..."
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1 item: 68-pp. transcript of interview with Philip L. Williams, VP, Cable Properties. Notable names and subjects include: Williams' exercise regimen and how he prepares for the business day (pp. 1 - 2) ; his management style ; childhood and youth (pp. 33 - 35) ; William's describes his lifestyle, social habits and life philosophy.
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Approx. 5 items: approx. 80-pp. of transcripts of interviews, likely by Marshall Berges, with Otis Chandler. The interviews were conducted on several days between 8/1980 and 2/1981. The remarks range across many topics: race car driving ; a four-day visit to the Lyndon B. Johnson Ranch in the 1960s ; other Times Mirror business ventures in broadcast media. Part of this material is a 25-pp. transcript of an interview of Otis Chandler by Michael Jackson of KABC (radio). Segments of the 1980 interviews deal with corrections Otis wished to make to comments made earlier.
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1 item: 20-pp. transcript of interview by Marshall Berges with Stanley Gordon, 11/17/1979. Gordon, at the time of this interview was a former Sunday Editor of Los Angeles Times and had done much research on the history of Los Angeles Times in addition to being an employee. Subjects include: Los Angeles Times begins publishing and Harrison Gray Otis is hired almost immediately ; tales of the early days of Los Angeles Times ; memories of "Buff" (Dorothy) and Norman Chandler, Kyle Palmer, Otis Chandler's youth ; ...Hollywood publicist Harry Brand ; ...Jack Smith ; more.
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Correspondence between Otis Chandler, Marshall Berges, and Donna Swayze regarding documents that Chandler lent Berges to read. All the documents are in this folder. Documents include speeches, memos, and newspaper clippings.
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1 item: 76-pp. transcript of interview with Ted Weegar, an LAT editor involved with the electronic editing system, etc. Notable names and subjects include: Weegar and interviewer Berges jump around a bit but much of the interview has to do with the electronic editing system ; Cecily Surace comes from RAND to be LAT Library Director and modernizes that department (pp. 18 - 20) ; description of the emerging electronic system of feeding stories between writers, editors and the data bank in the Editorial Library (around pp. 29) ; pagination (pp. 33) ; Weegar's childhood and youth (pp. 35 - 37) ; what led him into journalism (pp. 50) ; Richard Nixon (pp. 52 - 53) ; around 1960, Weegar was chosen to start up the LAT Opinion section (pp. 57 - 59) ; "those early years (with) Otis (as) publisher were terribly fun" (pp. 62 - 63).
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