Manuscripts
Los Angeles Times Magazine
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Los Angeles Times Magazine
Manuscripts
Approx. 40 items: memos, letters, reports and other material on LAT Mag. Includes: memo & report from Laura Morgan, Public Relations, on LAT Mag., 9/16/1985, with attached 7-pp. of "Media questions and answers" at the time LAT ceased publishing Home magazine ; 4-pp. article copied from Washington Journalism Review, 4/1985, "The new Los Angeles Times Magazine" ; memo, 7/5/1984, from Alan Parachini to Jean Sharley Taylor with attached 3-pp. of "story / profile ideas" ; 30-plus pp. (black clip) headed "Advertiser and Reader reactions to redesigned Sunday Magazine," 6/18/1984.
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Los Angeles Times Magazine
Manuscripts
Approx. 30 items: memos, letters, reports and other material on LAT Mag. Includes three major reports: "Focus group summaries for Pleasures [magazine], approx. 15-pp., 12/29/1983 - stamped "Confidential" ; approx. 20-pp. packet of 1/1984 comments from (reader) questionnaires about Pleasures magazine, a prototype product ; 37-pp. statistical report, "Subscriber's evaluation of the Pleasures prototype."
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Los Angeles Times Magazine
Manuscripts
3 items and related memos: major report, approx. 100-pp., reflecting reader reaction to LAT Magazine content, 10/1988 ; two shorter report (about 8-pp. each) headed "(LAT Mag.) Comments from Market Planning Interviews," 11/3/1987.
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Los Angeles Times - Washington Post News Service
Manuscripts
Approx. 65 items. Subjects include: wire reports and LAT memos on the operations of various national news services such as AP, UPI and NY Herald Tribune; memo from Fran Kent to Williams suggesting a "reexamination of the duties and responsibilities of the (newsservice) editor" three months into the project ; memo from Phil Graham (Wash. Post) to Otis Chandler, Williams, et. al., suggesting a meeting in Wash.; memos on the subjects for discussion at the Jan. 1963 meetings between LAT and Wash. Post execs; "Progress Report: the First Six Months" (on the Times-Post Newsservice); further memos on the ups and downs of the newsservice and on its operations; etc.
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Theaters - Music Center of Los Angeles County
Manuscripts
Approx. 40 items: selected clips from LAT, Downtown News, Time (magazine), various brochures and booklets. Notable items: 10-pp. report from (LAT staffer) Ed Ainsworth to "Mrs. [Dorothy] Chandler," 12/9/1957, "Civic Auditorium Memorandum" ; brochure, (8/1963?) "An invitation to become a founder of The Music Center - a living memorial to peace" ; brochure, "Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra - The Music Center...1964-1965 Inaugural Season" ; cover & article tear sheets, Time, 12/18/1964, story on The Music Center and Dorothy Chandler ; souvenir booklet, The Music Center, 1968 ; 2 copies of booklet, LA Edition - Fall/Winter 1984, with articles on The Music Center and on Dorothy Chandler ; LAT tear sheets, 5/10/1987, Calendar cover story, "The Music Center - What lies ahead?"
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Pulitzer Prize
Manuscripts
Approx. 35 items. Memos, letters, telegrams, postcards acknowledging nominations. Subjects include: telegram to Norman Chandler from Grayson Kirk, Pres. Columbia Univ.; news releases from Columbia Univ. (Journalism School there awards the prizes); material related to LAT winning the Public Service Award for Gene Sherman's series on narcotics smuggling; letters of congratulations from Sen. Thomas Kuchel, Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk, UC Pres. Clark Kerr, etc. Also in the folder is the Pulitzer Prize Certificate (original) and other related items.
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