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E - Miscellaneous Correspondence
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Miscellaneous Correspondence H - W
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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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Miscellaneous Correspondence A - H
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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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Miscellaneous - 1985 Employee Opinion Survey
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Blue binder containing report of approx. 170-pp. - "1985 Employee Opinion Survey." (binding removed)
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P - Miscellaneous Correspondence
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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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Chronological File - Marshall Berges
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Approx. 150 items. Letters and memos. Subjects and correspondents include: a wide array of letters replying to readers critical of what they see as LAT's political biases, or to Conrad or Interlandi cartoons, or to LAT coverage of liberal or radical groups; (9/25/1969) in letter to Jerome Selmer, Williams writes of William Buckley, "(he writes entertainingly...frequently I like his writing better than I like his ideas"; (10/7/1969) 4-pp. letter to Don Bruckner, LAT Chicago Bureau, on his work and LAT philosophy; also more replies to readers accusing LAT of being "soft on crime" or "irreligious"; (3/18/1969) letter to Don Teetor on a "emotional idealism," "logical realism" and newspapers; many Williams-to-Otis C. memos; etc. NOTE: Duplicates of most of this material is contained in other files.
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G - Miscellaneous Correspondence
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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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