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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. 75 items. Includes: many letters criticizing LAT, mostly on political grounds ; some letters praising LAT's coverage of the news ; across-the-board collection of letters ranging from thoughtful and eloquent to angry and extreme.
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Approx. 75 items. Includes: note and attached collection of jokes from Milton Berle ; correspondence with Querencia Productions ; many letters criticizing LAT, mostly on political grounds ; some letters praising LAT's coverage of the news ; correspondence (1983) in which Hustler publisher Larry Flynt offers a free subscription of his porn magazine to Thomas, who declines ;across-the-board collection of letters ranging from thoughtful and eloquent to angry and extreme.
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Blue binder containing report of approx. 170-pp. - "1985 Employee Opinion Survey." (binding removed)
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Approx. 30 items. Letters, memos, newspaper clippings. Subjects include: "Hollywood" celebrity coverage; Mayor Norris Poulson; moving expenses for Arch Parsons (1964); Don Bruckner reprints; controversy over an illustration depicting Cain and Abel seen by some as demeaning to Negros; the future of the UC and State College systems; John L. Perry--public opinion pollster; tension and war in the Middle East and Vietnam; etc.
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Approx. 45 items. Subjects include: furor over columnist Morrie Ryskind's criticisms of LAT and AP; the William Wieland case; Khrushchev visit to USA; exchange of letters with Barry Goldwater encouraging him to continue his column for the LA Times Syndicate; dropping of "Dick Tracy" comic from the Times & extended exchange with Chester Gould, creator of the comic; exchange of letters between J.J. McClellan, a V.P. of Facelle Co., and Williams, after the company accused the Times story "Grocery Shelf Psychology" of being "biased and inaccurate"; the films of John Wayne--good and bad; etc. Aug. 13, 1965 letter to Wes Gallagher notes that the LAT "is under constant and frequently outrageous attack by some elements of the extreme right."
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Approx. 20 items. Letters, news clippings. Subjects include: letter for Otis Chandler from Thomas Pryor, Editor of Daily Variety, complaining about an article in LAT by Judith Crist on coverage of Hollywood by the trade papers (incl. Daily Variety); Willard Voit's press release at the time he resigned from John Birch Society's publishing arm to work for the presidential campaign of George Wallace; letter critical of LAT story touting Carlton Fredericks and his views on nutrition; W.'s letter critical of photographic layouts in Home mag.; retiring of pseudonym "Marion Manners" in favor of real name of LAT Food Editor, Jeanne Voltz (1968); LAT's California Cookbook; on-going debate over relative harm to society of alcohol vs. marijuana abuse; automobile braking systems; letter to the editor from entertainer Rudy Vallee, offering his services as a columnist; etc.
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