Finding Aid for the Gladwin Hill Papers LSC.1706
Finding aid prepared by LSC staff, 2005.
UCLA Library Special Collections
Online finding aid last updated 2020 November 12.
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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Gladwin Hill papers
Creator:
Hill, Gladwin
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1706
Physical Description:
56.5 Linear Feet
(113 boxes, 1 oversize box)
Date (inclusive): circa 1935
Abstract: Gladwin Hill (b.1914) was a reporter,
wire editor, feature writer, columnist (1932- ), and war correspondent in Europe (1944-46).
He later served as chief of the Los Angeles bureau of the
New York Times
(1946-68), was a member of the board of directors for the Los Angeles Press Club, and a
national environmental correspondent (1969- ). The collection consists of manuscript
articles, book manuscripts, manuscripts of speeches and lectures, correspondence, essays,
unpublished materials, interview notes, personal diaries (1935-73),
New York
Times
Los Angeles Bureau records and correspondence, photographs, and
ephemera.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access
special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on
this page.
Language of Material:
English .
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Gladwin Hill papers (Collection 1706). UCLA Library Special
Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biographical / Historical
Hill was born on June 16, 1914 in Boston, Massachusetts; BSc, Harvard University, 1936;
became reporter and feature writer for the
Boston transcript, 1932-36; worked
variously as a reporter, wire editor, feature writer, columnist, and war correspondent; war
correspondent in Europe, 1944-46; was first reporter to fly into Germany on a U.S. bombing
raid and filed the first eyewitness story on the Normandy invasion; served as chief of the
Los Angeles bureau of the
New York Times, 1946-68; member of the board of
directors, Los Angeles Press Club; became national environmental correspondent in 1969;
publications include
Dancing bear: an inside look at California politics
(1968) and
Madman in a lifeboat: issues of the environmental crisis
(1973).
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of manuscript articles, book manuscripts, manuscripts of speeches and
lectures, correspondence, essays, unpublished materials, interview notes, personal diaries
(1935-73),
New York Times Los Angeles Bureau records and correspondence,
photographs, and ephemera.
Related Materials
Oral history interview with Gladwin Hill [oral history transcript] / Gladwin
Hill, interviewee. UCLA Oral History Department interview, (1988?). Available at the
Department of Special Collections, UCLA.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Diaries.
Journalists -- United States -- Archives.
New York Times Company -- Officials and employees -- Archives
Hill, Gladwin--Archives.
New York Times Company -- Archives
Gladwin Hill papers
ca. 1935-1991
General note
New York Times story manuscripts also include a great deal of
unpublished material in the form of memos to editors with story suggestions, background
information, etc. It should not be assumed that every story waspublished. Also, editing
of stories in New York would render the published version different from the originally
submitted manuscript.
box 1-16
Manuscripts of
New York Times articles on general
subjects.
1946-1980
Scope and Contents note
Related notes and correspondence are provided with the manuscripts, where they have
survived.
General note
Sorted alphabetically by subject.
box 1-2
Atomic Energy
1948-1965
Language of Material: English.
Artukovich
1958-1959
Language of Material: English.
box 2
Art
1955, 1963
Language of Material: English.
box 3
Alphabetical Files A-C
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Content
General topics include:
- Atomic Energy
- Atomic Energy Phobia
- Air Canada/Grand Canyon
- Airport/Air travel
- Alaska Pipeline
- Alaska stories
- Arizona Politics, Industry, Goldwater
- Batchelor
- Brown Derby
- Don Blanding
- Cities: growth, expansion
- City of Hope
- Civil Defense
- Civil Liberties
- Corrigan
- Communists
- Crossfield
box 4
Alphabetical Files C, E-H
1947, 1971, 1981
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Content
Topics include:
- Communists
- Highways
- Hilton/Gabor paternity
- Heublein
- Hearst Castle
- Guayule/Rubber
- Gambling/Gardena
- Gabreski/Gadgetry
- Food/Agriculture/Fishing Industry
- Florida
- Kathy Fiscus
- Fires
- Expo' 74
- Escheat
- Education/Communism
- Disneyland
Alphabetical Files C-D
1950-1968, 1981
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Content
Topics include:
- Education/Communism
- Disneyland
- Deaf
- Lawrence E. Davies
- Walter Cronkite
- Dams
- Courts
- Crime
box 6
Alphabetical Files, C, M
1947-1964
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Content
Topics include:
- Crime
- Military
- Clint W. Murchison
- Mexico
- Migrant Labor
- Medical
- Macarthur Foundation
box 7
Alphabetical Files, I-L
1954-1967, 1973, 1978
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Content
Topics include:
- Industry
- Industry-Banking
- Japanese
- Jews
- KKK
- Kaiser Steel
- Labor
- Landslides
- Las Vegas
- Curtis Lemay
- Los Angeles, LAPD
box 9
Alphabetical Files, C, M
1946-1963
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Content
Topics include:
- Communists
- Movies, including Personalities
- Ida Lupino
- Kirk Douglas
- Mercedes McCambridge
- Ed Wynn
box 10
Movies and Movie Personalities
1950-1961, 1984
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Content
Topics include:
- Mel Ferrer
- Ruth Roman
- "Kansas City Blues"
- Hollywood Trial re scandal magazines
box 11
Movies, Alphabetical Files - R
1946-1966, 1978-1979, 1981
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Content
Topics include:
- Movies
- Cecille B. Demille
- Race
- Radio, TV
- Resources
- Roger Revelle
- Religion
box 12
Alphabetical Files, P-R
1946-1965
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Content
box 13
Alphabetical Files, N-Q, T
1963-1986
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Content
Subjects include:
- Nazis
- Nevada
- New Mexico
- Obituaries
- Ocean
- Oil, Offshore Drilling
- Palm Springs
- Paramedics
- Linus Pauling
- Quakes (Earthquakes)
- Transit
box 14
Alphabetical Files, T-S
1946-1961, 1975
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Content
Subjects include:
- Theater
- Texas: Politics, Oil, Race
- TV (including early video, radio)
- Tahoe (Lake Tahoe)
- Synanon
- Maurice Strong
- Rep. Stringfellow
- Sports (including Squaw Olympics, Dodgers)
box 15
Alphabetical Files, R-S
1940s-1960s, 1984, 1991
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Content
Subjects include:
- Rocketry and Aerospace
- Sagebrush Rebellion
- Harrison Salisbury
- Henry Salvatori
- San Diego
- Santa Barbara
- Science (including Benthoscope, Big Eye Telescope, Drilling, Electric Brain,
Einstein, etc.)
- Father Serra
- Shipping
- William Shirer
- Eugene Shoemaker
- Society - California, Texas
- Jack Smith
box 16
Alphabetical Files, R-W
1940s-1970s, 1983
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Content
Subjects include:
- Rocketry and Aerospace including photographs
- Travel/Tourism
- Tround
- United Nations
- Vietnamese
- Weather
- John Weaver
- Welfare
- Western States
- Jess Willard
box 17-21
New York Times manuscript duplicates.
Scope and Contents note
Possibly duplicating some of the material in boxes 1 through 7.
box 17
General: including Crime, Education, Mental illness, Population, Housing,
Boy Scouts, Fire, Sports, Trains, Wild Horses, Earthquakes, Gambling, newspaper
Monterey Californian, Communism, American Legion, Veterans, sea
lions, carrier pigeons, Girl Scouts, etc.
1946-1954
Language of Material: English.
box 17
Air: including Donald Wills Douglas, March Air Force Base, Missiles, Jet
Fighters, Space Travel, LAX, helicopters, crashes, Howard Hughes, etc.
1947-1957
Language of Material: English.
box 17
Air: including Edwards Air Force Base, supersonic experimental plane,
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation,
1948-1953
Language of Material: English.
box 17
Arizona: manufacturing
1946-1948
Language of Material: English.
box 17
Book Reviews and Art Reviews
1946-1953
Language of Material: English.
box 18
Food
1947-1953
Language of Material: English.
box 18
Crime: including marijuana, police, corruption, etc.
1946-1953
Language of Material: English.
box 18
Industry/Business: including oil
1947-1952
Language of Material: English.
box 18
International
1946-1953
Language of Material: English.
box 18
Labor: including unemployment
1946-1957
Language of Material: English.
box 19
Migrants
Language of Material: English.
box 19, box 19
Hollywood Movies - Labor
1946-1951
Language of Material: English.
box 19
Military
1946-1956
Language of Material: English.
box 19
Obituaries
1946-1955
Language of Material: English.
box 19
Correspondence, "fan mail," re "wetback" articles
1951
Language of Material: English.
box 21-29
New York Times manuscripts on environmental
subjects.
Scope and Contents note
Grouped alphabetically by subject.
box 25-26
Environment
1970s
Language of Material: English.
box 27
Environment
1946-1970s
Language of Material: English.
box 29
Environment
1948-1970s
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Content
Subjects include:
- Los Angeles Politics
- Texas Politics
- Smog
- Water Management Plan
- Wildlife
box 29-36
New York Times manuscripts of stories on Western U.S.
politics.
1946-1960s
Scope and Contents note
These are grouped rather haphazardly -- sometimes chronologically, sometimes by
subject alphabetically, and sometimes by personality name.
box 30
Politics
1946-1958
Language of Material: English.
box 31
Politics
1949-1968
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Content
Subjects include:
- Race
- Roosevelt
- Communism
- Gerald Finch
- George Wallace
box 32
Politics
1960s
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Content
box 33
California politics, including Nixon
1957-1070s
Language of Material: English.
box 34
Politics
1960s
Language of Material: English.
box 35
Politics
1959-1960s
Language of Material: English.
box 36
Politics, Ringling Brothers Circus
1960s
Language of Material: English.
box 36-37
Associated Press manuscripts: "Screwy News" features.
1939
box 37
Atlantic Monthly Correspondence
1954-1955
Language of Material: English.
box 37
Water Supply and Water Polution
1966
Language of Material: English.
box 37
A.M Mercury story about California and
correspondence
1947-1949
Language of Material: English.
box 36-37
Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus.
1936-1941
box 37-43
Magazine article manuscripts, including correspondence with
publishers.
1940s-
Scope and Contents note
Also, "Madman in a Lifeboat" manuscript.
box 39
Correspondence with various publishers
1950s-1970s, 1987-1988
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Content
The Nation Pageant Magazine - polygamy St. Louis Post-Dispatch Saturday Evening
Post Authors' Guild
box 41
Correspondence with publishers
1970, 1971, 1980s
Language of Material: English.
box 42
Correspondence with various publishers, including Groliers and National
Wildlife
1970s-1980s
Language of Material: English.
box 43
Manuscripts, notes, correspondence, op-eds, book reviews
1950s-1990
Language of Material: English.
box 43-46
World's Fair Magazne article manuscripts.
1980 through 1991
box 46
A Study of the Los Angeles Metroplitan Radio Audience prepared for The
Western Broadcasting Corporation prepared by Opinion Research of California and
Economic Consultants Incorporated
September 28, 1964
Language of Material: English.
box 46
Serving the Needs of Pasadena by Western Broadcasting Corporation
ca. 1960
Language of Material: English.
box 46
Mrs. Gooch's Ad Copywriting
1989
Language of Material: English.
box 46
Notes for Interview Book
1955, undated
Language of Material: English.
box 46
Book notes re various topics
ca. 1966, undated
Language of Material: English.
box 46
"Wyvern" - A proposed TV series or mini-series, or a feature film
1986
Language of Material: English.
box 46
Article Notes - handwritten
undated
Language of Material: English.
box 46
Notes - Envtl RPTG Book - handwritten
undated
Language of Material: English.
box 46
Calif. book - handwritten notes
undated, 1964
Language of Material: English.
box 43-46
Maturity News Service manuscript.
Late 1980s-1991
box 43-46
Book review manuscripts.
1960s-1990
Scope and Contents note
Also, recent Op-Ed projects, published and unpublished.
box 46-48
Awards; media projects (e.g., radio survey), works in progress; unpublished
short story manuscripts.
box 46-48
Essays written under pseudonyms.
1950s-1960s
box 48
Typed book notes
1987
Language of Material: English.
box 48
Notes "For Corresp. Book"
1972
Language of Material: English.
box 48
"Rejects, etc." Unpublished.
1946-1947
Language of Material: English.
box 48
Essays (pseudonyms)
1949-1957
Language of Material: English.
box 48
Interview notes
1961-1965
Language of Material: English.
box 49
Interview notes
1963-1964
Language of Material: English.
box 49
Ariz | Nev Pols Notes
1966
Language of Material: English.
box 49
Int. Notes.
1969-1973
Language of Material: English.
box 48-51
Personal notebooks and diaries.
1935-1973
box 50
Diaries - handwritten notes re daily activities
1935, 1936
Language of Material: English.
box 51-61
New York Times Los Angeles Bureau records and
correspondence.
1940s-1970
box 51
NYT Times LA Bureau Correspondence
1959-1965
Language of Material: English.
box 51
Correspondence re personnel
1949-1957
Language of Material: English.
box 52
Correspondence re speeches
1958-1963
box 52
Western Edition correspondence
1959-1962
box 55
Reports in booklet form re New York Times as a business
1950s
box 55
Correspondence Sulzberger
1948-1960
box 55
1946-1948
Container Summary: NYT-AHS Staff Letters
box 55
Correspondence - Aid
1946-1960
box 56
Sunday Department, New York Times
1946-1950, 1958-1959
Language of Material: English.
box 56
New York Times correspondence
1947-1951, 1957-1960
Language of Material: English.
box 56
New York Times articles
1970s, 1981-1984
Language of Material: English.
box 56
Expense Accounts
1950
Language of Material: English.
box 56
Promotional materials - Hill bios
1950s-70s
Language of Material: English.
box 57-58
Correspondence re promotional materials, including photographs (proof
sheets) of Gladwin Hill
1960s
Language of Material: English.
box 58
Sirhan B. Sirhan
1968
Language of Material: English.
Correspondence
1959-1979
Language of Material: English.
box 60
New Los Angeles Bureau quarters
1968-1969
Language of Material: English.
box 60
Fan mail
1947, 1954-1975
Language of Material: English.
box 61
Correspondence re various subjects
pre-1976-1989
Language of Material: English.
box 61-66
USC workshop notes, projects and correspondence.
box 66-69
Earthquake Manual project, prepared in conjunction with members of Greater
Los Angeles Press Club.
Scope and Contents note
Also, Hollywoodland Homeowners Association notes and correspondence.
box 69-72
Personal and professional correspondence.
1970-1992
box 72
Personal correspondence
1922, 1926, 1928, 1930-32, 1939, 1942
Language of Material: English.
box 72
General correspondence
1970s
Language of Material: English.
box 72-77
Family correspondence.
1920s-1950s
box 75
1942-1955
Language of Material: English.
box 76
1951-1955
Language of Material: English.
box 77
Elisita Hill
1943-1956
Language of Material: English.
box 77-84
Family correspondence, including World War II.
1930s-1940s
box 78
Correspondence
1941-1942
Language of Material: English.
box 79
Correspondence
1942
Language of Material: English.
box 83
Correspondence
1942-1945
Language of Material: English.
box 85-87
Family correspondence.
1940s to present
box 88-93
Manuscripts of speeches and lectures.
1946-1973
box 88
Spare Texts, Speeches, Lecture Material: topics include environment and the
"news business"
ca. 1963-1977
Language of Material: English.
box 89
Lectures and speeches
1964-1972
Language of Material: English.
box 88
Speeches
1958-1962
Language of Material: English.
box 89
Speeches and lectures
1957-1970s
Language of Material: English.
box 90
Speeches and lectures
1970-1973
Language of Material: English.
box 97-108
"Dancing Bear" manuscript, correspondence and raw notes.
box 109-110
World War II notebooks, manuscripts, ephemera.
box 111-112
Photos and family data.
General note
(Box 111 is a flat box)