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C - Miscellaneous Correspondence
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous
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Approx. 25 items. The folder includes business and personal correspondence with Richard Nixon, "Missy" Chandler, Fawn Brodie [UCLA prof. & author], clipped Times articles about Brodie, Theodore H. White [author], Gordon Pates [Managing Editor, S.F. Chronicle], Mrs. Goodwin J. Knight, etc.
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L - Miscellaneous Correspondence
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Approx. 40 items. Memos, letters, newspaper clippings. Subjects include: Proposition A (1959); objections to Moiseyev Dancers' appearance at Shrine Auditorium; racial discrimination by some Long Beach State College sororities; alleged "libelous" statements about Rep. James Utt by columnist Paul Coates; exchange of letters between Williams and Sterling Lord Agency regarding series of 10 columns by James Simon Kunen, described by Lord as "hitchhiking revolutionary bard and author of The Strawberry Statement; departure of Fay Hammond, arrival of new Fashion editor Mary Lou Luther; essay by Art Kunkin, Editor/Publisher of the Los Angeles Free Press; exchange of letters with Los Angeles County Commission Against Indecent Literature; etc.
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R - Miscellaneous Correspondence
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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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W - Miscellaneous Correspondence
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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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C - Miscellaneous Correspondence
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Approx. 50 items. Letters, hand-written notes, newspaper clippings, etc. Subjects include racial & ethnic terms as used in the paper, the (Sharon) Tate murders, the My Lai incident, etc. There are a number of 1971 items related to Williams' retirement.
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous
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"Approx. 60 items. Folder includes letters, memos, luncheon programs, L.A.T. policy statements, several very angry letters from readers who criticize the Times' content. One writer decries "all that (the Times) is doing to destroy the moral fiber of the nation." These letters date from 1967-68 and most are addressed to Otis Chandler. Also in the folder are a1968 interview with Otis Chandler conducted by Ken Green, representing Bank of America (14 pp. transcript), several letters sharply critical of editorial cartoonist Paul Conrad, etc. "
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