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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
Approx. 55 items. Folder includes congratulatory letters upon the occasion of Bassett's January 1970 promotion to Associate Editor of the Times, several transcripts of articles by a writer named Jack Mahon, various other professional and personal correspondence. Walter Annenberg letter removed from Autograph File and returned to Bassett files. Split into two folders.
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Approx. 70 items. Subjects include: a contract with Dow Jones News Service; Spiro Agnew; California Redwoods; hiring and relocation of Anthony Day from Philadelphia Bulletin; coverage of the Reagan vs. Unruh gubernatorial election; singer/actor Bobby Darin in war of words with LAT columnist Joyce Haber, including a letter by Darin to Williams (Israel and two bottles of scotch were involved); preparation (business and private) for a NYC visit by Williams and his wife; letter from Walt Disney regarding Disneyland; letter from Everett McKinley Dirksen; etc. Disney and Dirksen letters removed from Autograph File and returned to Williams Subject File.
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Approx. 75 items. Memos, letters, handwritten notes, clippings. Subjects include: identifying criminal suspects by racial description in LAT; "the general idea of an association of newspapers for the purpose of acquiring original material directly"; Hillinger story on Hutterites and discussion that followed; correspondence between Williams and Sam Hurst, Dean of Architecture, USC; letters from Hairway, a company claiming to be able to reverse male-pattern baldness; (3/10/'70) relations between LAPD and the "Negro community"; Armand Hammer and Occidental Petroleum; correspondence with W. Averell Harriman; correspondence between Williams (and others) and J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI; letter from Oveta Culp Hobby letter; etc. Oveta Culp Hobby letter removed from Autograph File and returned to Williams Subject Files.
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Approx. 20 items. "Letters to the editor" from a wide array of sources, but mostly from angry readers or the mentally unbalanced. Attached to most of them are comments by Nick Williams and/or Bassett. Also included are some clippings from the editorial pages of LAT. William Durant letter removed from Autograph File and returned to Bassett files.
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Approx. 30 items. Letters. Subject include: coverage of Pomona Valley; Conference on the Nat'l. Economy, Washington, DC; exchange of letters with Ronald Wise of Sierra Club; "a subscriber... for many years" cancels his subscription. after being offended by an Oliphant cartoon, which prompts him to write of "the sick humor" of a "narrow-minded idiot" using "gutter-like attacks on the parochial schools..."; series of letters from Clore Warne to Otis Chandler, Nick Williams and William Thomas with suggestions for improving the newspaper are neat, literate and object to certain aspects of advertising; letter from Caspar Weinberger; etc. Caspar Weinberger letter removed from Autograph File and returned to Williams Subject Files.
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Approx. 30 items. Letters, memos, a bibliography of RAND Corp. publications. Subjects include: editorial cartoons; an incident in which LAT columnist Art Ryon, allegedly drunk, spoke to the annual meeting of the Agricultural Council of Calif. at the El Mirador Hotel, Palm Springs; Richard Reston's personal impressions of working the Moscow Bureau in letter to Williams; cancer drugs; community seminar-racial understanding; exchange of letters with Assemblyman Leo Ryan; members of Rigby family take exception to reportage on plane crash that killed one family member and injured others, and after which a 15 year-old boy struggled through snowstorm to bring help; etc. Nelson Rockefeller letter removed from Autograph File and returned to Williams Subject Files.
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