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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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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. 15 items: collection of news clip copies, news releases, a "top ten news stories" list for 1960, many of them relating to Frank Haven ; 8-pp. speech transcript, "New roles and hazards for today's newspaper," "1969" is written in at top margin of pp. 1 - presumably Haven delivered this speech somewhere that year ; single sheet, "Frank P. Haven - biography," 3/20/1974 ; 15-pp. transcript, "This is a taping with Frank Haven, Managing Editor of The Times, on 11/3/(19)74" - subjects include: Haven describes his first weeks on the job by saying "the paper was not all I had dreamed it would be," which is rare negativity in these interviews ; Haven's memories of Pearl Harbor attack & coverage ; more memories. 19-pp. transcript, "This is a second taping with Frank Haven...(1/23/1975). Subjects include: by mid-1960s Los Angeles Times had made great strides in foreign coverage but needed to beef up local "beats" ; memories of Watts riot coverage (pp. 5) ; improving an often "dull and insular" paper of the 1950s (pp. 9) ; NOTE - this transcript has a great amount of cross-outs and editing marks all over it ; 18-pp. speech text, opening with "Thank you, Mrs. Johnstone," n.d., no other info.
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Six items comprising of twenty-three pages pertaining to Bob Conot,consisting of letters, a change of address card, newspaper clippings, and a transcript entitled "LAPD."
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3 items: 30-pp. transcript of interview of George Cotliar (high-ranking Los Angeles Times editor) "by Jack Hart" - interviewer? ; two versions of a Cotliar bio, one handwritten, a second one typed and dated 11/1974.
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3 items: 11-pp. transcript of interview with John Foley ; 11-pp. transcript of interview with Bob Gibson ; 9-pp. transcript of interview with Anthony Day, all undated. The three editors share memories of experiences on the job at Los Angeles Times.
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"Memos and letters pertaining to the John S. Knight Fellowships and Bob Gibson. "
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2 items: transcripts of interview with Los Angeles Times Editor Frank Haven, in two parts, 21-pp. and 27-pp., 3/26/1980. Subjects include: memories of his childhood ; Haven works his way up in journalism - he started at San Diego Sun as a teen ; to Los Angeles Times at age 28 (p. 6) ; many memories of newspaper operations in that era ; memories of Nick Williams ; memories of Otis Chandler's 1960s campaign to improve the paper and make the political coverage more balanced, non-partisan ; origins of Sam Yorty-Los Angeles Times feud ; SIDE 2 ; comments on the Nixon-Kennedy election (1960) ; comments on Jayne Mansfield and Frank Sinatra ; interviewer asks Haven to evaluate the strengths & weaknesses of Otis Chandler ; (Side 2, p. 6) ; the GeoTek case ; comments on Bill Thomas (p.11) ; memories of various top editors ; more.
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