Los Angeles Times Records

Box 586, Folder 2

Marshall Berges' Notes and Correspondence 1980 - 1983

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, notes, and other general material to and from Marshall Berges during his work on the history of the Los Angeles Times. Includes a copy of a letter written by Berges to advertise the book to subscribers of the Los Angeles Times.

Box 586, Folder 3

Marshall Berges' Notes and Correspondence 1984

Scope and Contents

"Correspondence, notes, and other general material to and from Marshall Berges during his work on the history of the Los Angeles Times. Includes many letters back and forth with Otis Chandler regarding comments on drafts and marketing appearances. REMOVED TO AUDIO-VISUAL BOXES: one cassette tape labeled "Community Viewpoint: Marshall Berges 5/13/84 6:30 am KFI Radio."

Box 586, Folder 4

Marshall Berges' Notes and Correspondence 1985 - 1987

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, notes, and other general material to and from Marshall Berges during his work on the history of the Los Angeles Times. Includes correspondence between Otis Chandler and Mildred Berges - wife of Marshall - after Marshall's death.

Box 586, Folder 5

Preliminaries circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Title page, table of contents, dedication, and acknowledgments for James Bassett's "The Life and Times of Los Angeles."

Box 586, Folder 6

Prologue 1977

Scope and Contents

5 items. Two are brief typed notes regarding page numbering and footnotes. Three are a rough, a corrected version and a final version of the Prologue.

Box 586, Folder 7

Chapter One circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Folder contains a yellow draft copy, with corrections and marks, a white revision copy, with corrections and marks, and a clean final copy of Chapter One.

Box 586, Folder 8

Chapter Two circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Folder contains a yellow draft copy, with corrections and marks, a white revision copy, with corrections and marks, and a clean final copy of Chapter Two.

Box 586, Folder 9

Chapter Three circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Folder contains a yellow draft copy, with corrections and marks, a white revision copy, with corrections and marks, and a clean final copy of Chapter Three.

Box 586, Folder 10

Chapter Four circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Folder contains a yellow draft copy, with corrections and marks, a white revision copy, with corrections and marks, and a clean final copy of Chapter Four.

Box 586, Folder 11

Chapter Five circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Folder contains a yellow draft copy, with corrections and marks, a white revision copy, with corrections and marks, and a clean final copy of Chapter Five.

Box 587

Histories And Outside Publications - Life And Times Of Los Angeles

Box 587, Folder 1

Chapter Six circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Folder contains a yellow draft copy, with corrections and marks, a white revision copy, with corrections and marks, and a clean final copy of Chapter Six.

Box 587, Folder 2

Chapter Seven circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Folder contains a yellow draft copy, with corrections and marks, a white revision copy, with corrections and marks, and a clean final copy of Chapter Seven.

Box 587, Folder 3

Chapter Eight circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Folder contains a yellow draft copy, with corrections and marks, a white revision copy, with corrections and marks, and a clean final copy of Chapter Eight.

Box 587, Folder 4

Chapter Nine circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Folder contains a yellow draft copy, with corrections and marks, a white revision copy, with corrections and marks, and a clean final copy of Chapter Nine.

Box 587, Folder 5

Chapter Ten circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Folder contains a yellow draft copy, with corrections and marks, a white revision copy, with corrections and marks, and a clean final copy of Chapter Ten.

Box 587, Folder 6

Chapter Eleven circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Folder contains a yellow draft copy, with corrections and marks, a white revision copy, with corrections and marks, and a clean final copy of Chapter Eleven.

Box 587, Folder 7

Chapter Twelve circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Folder contains a yellow draft copy, with corrections and marks, a white revision copy, with corrections and marks, and a clean final copy of Chapter Twelve.

Box 588

Histories And Outside Publications - Life And Times Of Los Angeles

Box 588, Folder 1

Chapter Thirteen circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Folder contains a yellow draft copy, with corrections and marks, a white revision copy, with corrections and marks, and a clean final copy of Chapter Thirteen.

Box 588, Folder 2

Chapter Fourteen circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.

Box 588, Folder 3

Chapter Fifteen circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.

Box 588, Folder 4

Chapter Sixteen circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.

Box 588, Folder 5

Chapter Seventeen circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.

Box 588, Folder 6

Chapter Eighteen circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.

Box 589

Histories And Outside Publications - Life And Times Of Los Angeles

Box 589, Folder 1

Chapter Nineteen circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.

Box 589, Folder 2

Chapter Twenty circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.

Box 589, Folder 3

Chapter Twenty One circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.

Box 589, Folder 4

Chapter Twenty Two 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.

Box 589, Folder 5

Chapter Twenty Three circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.

Box 589, Folder 6

Chapter Twenty Four circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.

Box 590

Histories And Outside Publications - Life And Times Of Los Angeles

Box 590, Folder 1

Chapter Twenty Five circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.

Box 590, Folder 2

Chapter Twenty Six circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.

Box 590, Folder 3

Notes and References circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.

Box 590, Folder 4

Notes and Synopsis circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.

Box 590, Folder 5

Synopsis - Outline circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.

Box 590, Folder 6

Preliminaries - Chapter Five circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.

Box 590, Folder 7

Chapter Six - Chapter Eleven circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.

Box 591

Histories And Outside Publications - Life And Times Of Los Angeles

Box 591, Folder 1

Chapter Twelve - Chapter Fifteen circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.

Box 591, Folder 2

Chapter Sixteen - Chapter Eighteen circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.

Box 591, Folder 3

Chapter Nineteen - Chapter Twenty Two circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.

Box 591, Folder 4

Chapter Twenty Three - Chapter Twenty Five circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.

Box 591, Folder 5

Chapter Twenty Six - End circa 1977

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.

Other Manuscripts 1982-1983

Scope and Contents

Drafts of Marshall Berges's three unpublished works about the Times: "Working at the Times," "Los Angeles Times Book Project," and "Framed in Thunderbolts: A Portrait of Otis Chandler and the Press." "Framed in Thunderbolts" appears to be an earlier version of the "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Date range is circa 1982-1983.

Box 591

Histories And Outside Publications - Life And Times Of Los Angeles

Box 591, Folder 6

Preliminaries - Part Three circa 1982

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges about the first four publishers of the Times and his personal experiences, titled "Working at the Times." Draft appears to be complete.

Box 591, Folder 7

Part Four, Chapter 8 - 17 circa 1982

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges about the first four publishers of the Times and his personal experiences, titled "Working at the Times." Draft appears to be complete.

Box 591, Folder 8

Part Four, Chapter 18 - end circa 1982

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges about the first four publishers of the Times and his personal experiences, titled "Working at the Times." Draft appears to be complete.

Box 592

Histories And Outside Publications - Los Angeles Times Book Project

Box 592, Folder 1

Preliminaries - Chapter Eight circa 1983

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.

Box 592, Folder 2

Chapter Nine - Chapter Fourteen circa 1983

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.

Box 592, Folder 3

Chapter Fifteen - Chapter Nineteen circa 1983

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.

Box 592, Folder 4

Chapter Twenty - Chapter Twenty Three circa 1983

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.

Box 592, Folder 5

Chapter Twenty Four - Outline circa 1983

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Draft is not complete and includes editing and proofreading notes in pencil. At the end of the draft is a lengthy outline with samples of future chapters. Split into five folders.

Box 592, Folder 6

Preliminaries - Chapter Seven circa 1983

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Framed in Thunderbolts: A Portrait of Otis Chandler and The Press." Appears to be a complete draft of earlier version titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Split into seven folders. Also, memo from Martin P. Levin to Otis Chandler.

Box 593

Histories And Outside Publications - Framed In Thunderbolts

Box 593, Folder 1

Chapter Eight - Chapter Thirteen circa 1983

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Framed in Thunderbolts: A Portrait of Otis Chandler and The Press." Appears to be a complete draft of earlier version titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Split into seven folders.

Box 593, Folder 2

Chapter Fourteen - Chapter Nineteen circa 1983

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Framed in Thunderbolts: A Portrait of Otis Chandler and The Press." Appears to be a complete draft of earlier version titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Split into seven folders.

Box 593, Folder 3

Chapter Twenty - Chapter Twenty Three circa 1983

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Framed in Thunderbolts: A Portrait of Otis Chandler and The Press." Appears to be a complete draft of earlier version titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Split into seven folders.

Box 593, Folder 4

Chapter Twenty Four - Chapter Twenty Nine circa 1983

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Framed in Thunderbolts: A Portrait of Otis Chandler and The Press." Appears to be a complete draft of earlier version titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Split into seven folders.

Box 593, Folder 5

Chapter Thirty - Chapter Thirty Six circa 1983

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Framed in Thunderbolts: A Portrait of Otis Chandler and The Press." Appears to be a complete draft of earlier version titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Split into seven folders.

Box 593, Folder 6

Chapter Thirty Seven - End circa 1983

Scope and Contents

Draft of manuscript by Marshall Berges, titled "Framed in Thunderbolts: A Portrait of Otis Chandler and The Press." Appears to be a complete draft of earlier version titled "Los Angeles Times Book Project." Split into seven folders.

Reference Material 1876-2002

Physical Description: 1 unit(76 boxes, 2 bound volumes)

Scope and Contents

These are the History Center's subject files (secondary source material, notes, ephemera, and related material). Organized alphabetically by subject. Date range is 1876-2002.

Los Angeles Times 1881-2002

Scope and Contents

Subject files specifically related to the Times. Date range is 1881-2002.

Box 594

Reference File - Los Angeles Times

Box 594, Folder 1

Anniversaries, 1881 - 1931 1881 - 1931

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items. Materials include: photocopies of portions of LAT editions from December 4 of various years, including the first day of publication in 1881, also 1884, 1885, 1889, 1891, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1902, 1906, 1910, 1920, 1921, 1924, and a "Fiftieth Anniversary Edition" of 1931.

Box 594, Folder 2

Anniversaries, 1932 - 1981 1932 - 1981

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. Material includes clippings and photocopies of LAT "birthday" articles from various years, including 1941, 1956 (75th), 1959, and text of speech given by U.S. Sen. William F. Knowland at LAT 75th Anniversary luncheon, 12/4/1956. Also in the folder is one copy of "Some Famous Firsts in Los Angeles," an insert published by LAT in 1956.

Box 594, Folder 3

Articles index, 1881 - 1898 1881 - 1898

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 photocopied sheets. Notecard entries with dates of articles related to LAT events, facts and statistics from the period 1881 - 1898.

Box 594, Folder 4

Articles index, 1881 - 1899 1881 - 1899

Scope and Contents

7 items. Sheets with photocopied or typed index information on newspaper stories mentioning The Daily Times or "The Mirror. Also photocopies (6-pp.) of Part II of Los Angeles Sunday Times for July 2, 1893, featuring a long article titled "Making a Modern Newspaper," which is about LAT personnel and operations.

Box 594, Folder 5

Articles on, 1900 - 1909 1900 - 1909

Scope and Contents

14 items. Articles about "General [Harrison Gray] Otis" and/or his newspapers, most from a publication called Graphic. Many of these are highly critical of Otis and his newspapers. Also several similar articles from The Evening News. Political (and personal) barbs fly. All materials are dated in 1906.

Box 594, Folder 6

Articles on, 1910 - 1919 1910 - 1919

Scope and Contents

8 items. Most items are photocopies of newspaper clippings with LAT as the subject. Some are identified as being from LAT, others are not. Also, protected in a plastic sleeve, a 1918 pamphlet, "Greetings from the Los Angeles Times," which offered a "Prospectus: the Los Angeles Times for 1918."

Box 594, Folder 7

Articles on, 1920 - 1929 1920 - 1929

Scope and Contents

4 items. Two LAT articles clipped from the newspaper. Also an ad headed Los Angeles Times is Overwhelmingly First," and an essay titled "Why The Times is First." identified as having won a $1000 prize for author Berthelot Wood. It is unclear who sponsored the contest.

Box 594, Folder 8

Articles on, 1930 - 1939 1930 - 1939

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items. Several articles from Among Ourselves (LAT in-house newsletter) and an article from Editor & Publisher (an original and a copy). Also several articles clipped from LAT.

Box 594, Folder 9

Articles on, 1940 - 1949 1940 - 1949

Scope and Contents

6 items: newspaper clips (generally praising LAT).

Box 594, Folder 10

Articles on, 1950 - 1959 1950 - 1959

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items. Magazine and newspaper clippings on various subjects: regular, same-day delivery of LAT to Sondrestrom Air Base, Greenland in 1958; LAT editorial titled, "...Innuendo Not News"; LAT report on "sane elder citizens" being committed to State mental hospitals; complete issue of Time (mag.) for 7/15/1957, featuring cover story on the history of Los Angeles and The Times; second copy of same cover story clipped out; issue of Los Angeles Underground, with cover story titled, "Bonelli's 'Billion Dollar Blackjack - The story of corruption and the Los Angeles Times'"; etc. Issue of The Southland Almanac ((2/1954) in plastic sleeve (with card reading, "Article[s] about L.A. Times - Pg. 2, 4 and 5. All material is negative towards LAT ).

Box 594, Folder 11

Articles on, 1960 1960

Scope and Contents

3 items: Clipping of UPI story of 4/11/1960, headlined "Times Listed Among 10 Top Papers"; two copies of Business Week story of 11/19/1960, titled "Los Angeles Times revises its image to reach changing market" (one tear sheet, one photocopy).

Box 594, Folder 12

Articles on, 1961 - 1965 1961 - 1965

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items. Two articles critical of LAT: "Fought Ceaselessly for Freedom," The Register, 12/8/1961; "Chandler's Los Angeles Times Publishes some Dirty Books," The Californian, 3/1961. Also clippings reflecting LAT's prominence in the newspaper field: several articles by Norman Chandler and Otis Chandler, including two copies (tear sheets) of "An Octogenarian and Still More Growth Ahead," by Otis Chandler, 12/3/1961. One clipping of Newsweek article, "Away with Trivia," (on LAT efforts to balance its political/social coverage) 10/30/1961. 1 item. Clipping from LAT of 4/14/1962, headlined "Corman Lauds Times' Fair Political Coverage: Van Nuys Democrat refutes charge that Republican news is frozen out of papers." 3 items. Clipping from Time (mag.), 11/29/1963, LAT quoted in article - "Covering the Tragedy" (Kennedy assassination); clipping from The California Publisher, 6/1963, article titled "Timesmen Travel Far to Get News"; clipping from The California Publisher, 12/1963, article titled "Safety Important at L.A. Times." 1 item. Clipping from Time (mag.), 1/10/1964, with segment about LAT in longer article with brief "biographies" of major papers across U.S. 6 items. Five tear sheet copies of Saturday Review article (6/12/1965), title "The New Look at The Times" (2 have mag. cover attached); one tear sheet copy of article from The Quill, 10/1965, title "L.A. Times -- A 'How' Story of Journalism."

Box 594, Folder 13

Articles on, 1966 - 1969 1966 - 1969

Scope and Contents

3 items. Two copies (1 tear sheet, 2 reprints) of article from Los Angeles Magazine, title "The Changing Direction of The Times. Also, one tear sheet copy of Time (mag.) article titled "Enterprise in Los Angeles," on LAT coverage of Watts riots, the resulting Pulitzer, Otis Chandler and the philosophical evolution of LAT. Attached to the Time article is a humorous note, hand-written by Otis Chandler. 7 items. Two tear sheets of Newsweek article, "How to Build an Empire" (1/2/1967) about LAT and the Chandlers--attached is color cover photo of Otis Chandler. One tear sheet and two photocopies of Saturday Review article (9/23/1967), "New Winds in the South, New Splash in the North, in part, about LAT. 4 items. Photocopy of chapter titled "The Times: Los Angeles and New York," from The Elite Press by John C. Merrill, 1968. Photocopy of chapter titled "Expanding Empire of a Newspaper," from Los Angeles--a Profile, by W.W. Robinson. Complete issue of The Nation, 1/15/1968, containing article "Los Angeles Times: Most Likely to Succeed," by Phil Kirby, and a tear sheet of same article. 5 items. Two copies of Harper's Magazine article of 12/1969, titled "The Los Angeles Times," by John Corry. Two news clippings, one titled "Pulitzer Prize Winner Pays Tribute to Times," the other "How Soviet Journalists Rate U.S. Newspapers." Clipping from L.A. Free Press, dated only "1969," titled "Los Angeles Times as Underground," giving the leftist newspaper's reaction to "the L.A. Times editorial of June 1st." The writer concludes, "Considerable changes must have taken place in the editorial offices of the Times...(noting) the increased liberal format of the new L.A. Times."

Box 594, Folder 14

Articles on, 1970 - 1974 1970 - 1974

Scope and Contents

7 items. Police Chief Edward M. Davis accused LAT of "attempting to generate and contrive news"; survey of newspaper publishers rates LAT second nationally (after NY Times); Saturday Review article praises "the Los Angeles Times, whose rise in both quantity and quality of news coverage during the last decade has been spectacular"; tear sheet of Los Angeles (mag) article titled "Is Los Angeles a three-newspaper kind of town?"; 27-pp. photocopy of manuscript titled "The Los Angeles Times: powerful voice in west coast journalism," by John Poppy; article from New York (mag) titled "Will Big Otis try to cross the East River?" by Edwin Diamond; etc. 9 items. Articles from various sources on the rise of LAT (since 1960) and leadership of Otis Chandler, from Editor & Publisher, Chicago Journalism Review, Business Week, and two foreign language publications (Russian? - Polish?). 3 items. Complete issue of The Bulletin (ASNE) 2/1973 - "Special Issue: The press under fire," includes essay by William F. Thomas, Editor, LAT, titled "How did we get into this terrible fix"; AP brief headlined "Times Brushes off Newsprint Strike"; AP article headlined "Sources dwindling," on confidential news sources and the courts. Approx. 12 items. Several news clippings from papers in Chicago, Santa Barbara, etc., reporting "war of words" between Union Oil Pres. Fred Hartley and LAT, NY Times and Wash. Post; Rex Reed column in Beverly Hills Discloser, titled "...Dull Editor runs The Times"; two copies of reprint from Advertising Age, "L.A. Times: Giant in big media jungle"; two Time (mag) articles mentioning LAT; complete Winter 1974 issue of The Review of Southern California Journalism, including articles titled "The forgotten history of the Los Angeles Times," "The frame-up of Mooney and Billings" and "The book the L.A. Times tried to kill."

Box 594, Folder 15

Articles on, 1975 - 1978 1975 - 1978

Scope and Contents

6 items. Three reprints from Advertising Age of article (11/17) titled "L.A. Times: Giant in big media jungle"; article from Cal. State L.A.'s University Times, "Author plans expose of L.A. Times"; article from L.A. Free Press, 11/7-13/1975), "At the Times: speak your mind and lose your job"; memo from Robert Flannes to Otis Chandler on Robert Gottlieb lecturing at UCLA, and being highly critical of LAT, with attached page from UCLA class catalog. 1 item: article copy, 2-pp., U.K. Press Gazette, "Innovate to invigorate," by Douglas Brown, reports on LAT's circulation and editorial success of the 1960s and 1970s. Approx. 15 items. Major article from Los Angeles (mag), 12/1977, "The changing of the guard," about Otis Chandler, the "easing out" of Dorothy "Buffy" Chandler, and emergence of Tom Johnson (20 + pp. - photocopies); article from Fortune (6/1977) titled "The big play in newspaper stocks may be over"; text of interview with Robert Gottlieb and Irene Wolt (given here as Wolfe), authors of Thinking Big (a critical history of LAT), aired on KCOP-tv in 12/1977; NY Times article, "Coast paper (LAT) defends stand on land law"; complete issue of The Green Banner (Amer. Linen Supply Co.) 5/1977, including the article, "Interesting Customer...Los Angeles Times"; Los Angeles (mag) 3/1977), "Can the Times ad censors cope with the new morality?"; other clippings on porn movie ads being banned from LAT; two articles on Rupert Murdoch vs. Otis Chandler feud; etc. Approx. 10 items. Long article on LAT from Los Angeles (mag) titled "Changing of the Guard." (It is labeled "1978" on the margin, elsewhere same article labeled "Dec. 1977). Also "Invasion of the Copy Snatchers," from California (mag), 7/1978, on LAT expanding into San Diego market. Article from Human Behavior, "Inside the Front Page," on LAT, Wash. Post, etc. Article from Spotlight, 7/3/1978, "Managing News, Not Reporting..." on LAT. Several clippings of brief articles on the newspaper industry in general and LAT in particular.

Box 594, Folder 16

Articles on, 1979 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. Two complete copies of The Atlantic Monthly, 4/1979. including the long article "The California Dynasty," by David Halberstam; article from Esquire, 4/10/1979, "Mr. Otis Regrets," critical of LAT; article from California Journal, 4/1979, "The Los Angeles Times: catching up with the Times" (on the Eula Love case); photocopy from Harper's, 6/1979, "Bound to Sell," article critical of David Halberstam's book, The Powers That Be; another article critical of Halberstam book from Business Week; article from Columbia Journalism Review, Jan.-Feb./1979, "The demographic dilemma"; several clippings of brief articles mentioning LAT.

Box 595

Reference File - Los Angeles Times

Box 595, Folder 1

Articles on, 1980 - 1983 1980 - 1983

Scope and Contents

Approx. Long article from Reader ("Los Angeles' Free Weekly"), 8/8/1980, "Inking Big: the story of Los Angeles's Two Daily Newspapers"; two copies (tear sheet & photocopy) of article from Newsweek, 9/22/1980, "Fat Times in Los Angeles"; tear sheet of "Our 20th Anniversary Celebration" from Los Angeles (mag), 7/1980, which contains mentions of LAT; also from Los Angeles, (12/1980) "They're all coming together--toward The Times"; several shorter articles, some on 1980 presidential elections. 5 items. Two tear sheets of long article from Los Angeles (mag) of 11/1981, "The Gray Lady of Spring Street Hits 100"; article from Advertising Age, 11/23/1981; reprinted text of speech by Jack Smith at LAT Centennial Dinner, 12/4/1981, "Our City, Our Times"; etc. 4 items. One complete copy of California (mag) of 10/1982, with major article on LAT, "Paper Giant: thick, rich, and slightly oppressive..."; tear sheet of previous article ; tear sheet of Washington Journalism Review, July-Aug. 1982, "The L.A. Times Reaches for the Top"; tear sheet from Media International, 12/1982, showing chart, "The World's 20 most reliable business journals (English language)," with LAT at #19. 5 items: multi-page tear sheet from feed/back, Fall 1983, "Framed," by Betty Medsger ; single tear sheet from feed/back, Fall 1983, "The night the lights went out in L.A." ; single tear sheet from Editor & Publisher, 1/29/1983,"Improved news product seen as ad growth key" ; single tear sheet from Adweek, 1/31/1983, "L.A. Times Chief Bullish on Newspapers in '83" ; multi-page tear sheet from feed/back, Fall 1983, "To code or not to code."

Box 595, Folder 2

Articles on, 1984 - 1988 1984 - 1988

Scope and Contents

5 items. Articles from: Interior Design, 3/1984, "The Los Angeles Times"; (periodical unknown) "Times vs. Times: Report from L.A."; Advertising Age, 11/30, "How three suburban newspapers have grown..." (headline & article incomplete); tear sheet of Time (mag), 4/30, "The Ten Best U.S. Dailies," which has segment on LAT, plus photocopy of same article. 1 item. Tear sheet of long article from Downtown News, 11/18/1985, "The Los Angeles Times: Heartbeat of the City for 104 years." 6 items. Four articles from L.A. Weekly: 10/3, "Drug Mania: an open letter to L.A. Times staffers"; 10/17, "The L.A. Times Urine Fund," on drug testing at LAT; 11/14, brief on firing of staffer Ron Harris for interview with Essence in which he discussed sexual technique; 10/3, brief on new LAT editor Shelby Coffey. Article from New Republic, 8/11, "And the L.A. Intellectual?", on lack of intellectual life in L.A. Finally, clipping of long letter to LAT with headline, "Likes and Dislikes from a Reader of The Times." 7 items. Two copies (1 tear sheet, 1 photocopy) of Los Angeles (mag) article, 9/1987, "'Gray Lady' at Crossroads" - about LAT. Article from Editor & Publisher, 8/15, "Promotion priorities questioned," on women and a "glass ceiling" at LAT. Brief from Los Angeles, 7/1987, "Half a Rim Shot for the Times?" Another "glass ceiling" brief from L.A. Weekly, 8/7. Finally, Jack Smith essay, "What's News?" from 12/13 Los Angeles Times Magazine. 6 items: Comments by LAT Publisher Tom Johnson on "The Next 25 Years," Los Angeles (mag), 1/1988; Los Angeles, 4/1988, "Real Power [in L.A.]; Avenue Magazine, 10/1988, "Stop the Presses"; Downtown News, 12/12, "N.Y. Times should stay with strengths"; brief from Los Angeles (mag), 12/1988, "Changing Times"; multiple reprints of USA Today article, 12/9, "L.A. Times wraps itself in late news."

Box 595, Folder 3

"Articles on, 1989 - 1992 " 1989 - 1992

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. Several news clippings on women in media jobs--hiring, promotions, salaries. Two copies--1 tear sheet, 1 photocopied--of long Wall St. Journal article, "Illusory Monopoly," on LAT. Clips on Times executives Norman Chandler, Tom Johnson, David Laventhol, Shelby Coffey. NY Times article, "Soul Searching at Los Angeles Times," 8/10, on LAT "killing" a negative story about Mayor Tom Bradley. Long article from L.A. Business, 4/1989, on L.A. Daily News "taking on" LAT. 7 items. Several news clips on LAT circulation and Times Mirror profits. Photocopied article from Smart (mag) on LAT Editor Shelby Coffey. Multi-page photocopy of article from New Yorker, "Letter from Los Angeles," on the history of the Los Angeles Times and the Chandler family. 4 items: long article from L.A. Weekly, 8/9, "Times A-Changing--veteran reporters sent down to the sticks"; article from California (mag), 5/1991, "L.A.'s Troubled Times--when a bad month happens to a good paper"; article from Time (mag), 4/15, "Hello, Sweetheart! Get Me Remake," on David Laventhol, Shelby Coffey and a "refurbished" LAT; Time article, 2/11, mentioning LAT. 2 items: Article tear sheet from Los Angeles Magazine (date ?), highly critical of LAT; article from USA Today Money section, 3/13, "Turbulent Times in L.A.--Suddenly, costs, morale are problems."

Box 595, Folder 4

Articles on, 1993 - 1995 1993 - 1995

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items. Several articles, various publications, on LAT's alleged struggles of the early 1990s--David Laventhol, Shelby Coffey, and Richard Schlossberg are mentioned. Article from L.A. Weekly, 9/3, "Palace Coup--How corporate managers wrested control of the Times from Otis Chandler"; letter to L.A. Weekly by Otis Chandler 10/8, criticizing the "errors...and wrong conclusions" of previous Charles Rappleye story ("Palace Coup") on LAT; article from Frontiers (gay newsmag.), 10/8/1993, "Gay Life at the West's Largest Newspaper." 3 items: article from Columbia Journalism Review, Nov-Dec/1994, "Are New Ideas Killing the L.A. Times?"; clipping from LAT (date?), "Times Mirror shows old rules may no longer apply"; article from Grunion Gazette (Long Beach), 9/8, "From the Publisher's Notebook." 1 item. New York Times article (photocopy), "A family struggle for the soul of Times Mirror," 11/27/1995. Personal names: Otis Chandler, Robert Erburu, Mark Willes, Shelby Coffey III, Philip Chandler.

Box 595, Folder 5

Awards 1952 - 1995

Scope and Contents

Approx. 65 items: material related to a wide range of awards presented to Los Angeles Times. Among the more prominent awards are those from the Pulitzer Prizes, the Society of Professional Journalists (Sigma Delta Chi), Overseas Press Club, George Polk Awards and Korn / Ferry International Journalism Awards. Several lists, created in the 1950s to mid-1990s time frame, and included in the folder.

Box 595, Folder 6

Awards - Book Awards 1980 - 1994

Scope and Contents

Approx. 40 items: reviews, announcements, lists, invitations, programs on the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, 1980 - 1994, and related material. (most but not all years are represented) A creme colored folder is included with lists, brief bios of authors, etc., for the 1981 awards.

Box 595, Folder 7

Awards - Contest Reports. 1992 - 1993

Scope and Contents

8 items. Material includes: LAT "Inter-Office Correspondence" providing contest reports and announcements of staffers (writers, editors, photographers) who had won awards or contest prizes. The memos are dated 1992 - 1993.

Box 595, Folder 8

Awards - President's Environment and Conservation Challenge 1991

Scope and Contents

Approx. 40 items: Los Angeles Times was a winner in the first year of The President's Environmental and Conservation Challenge Awards, this file chronicles that event and contains news briefs and articles about the other 1991 winners as well.

Box 595, Folder 9

Awards - Pulitzer Prizes 1957 - 1995

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: original, Columbia Library Columns, 5/1957, with list of Pulitzer Prize winners; exchange of letters on LAT's John Birch Society series (1961), from John Hohenberg of the Pulitzer Prize Advisory Board, and response from the office of Norman Chandler; approx. 15-pp. stapled stack, "A complete record of Pulitzer Prize winners, 1917 - 1991"; LAT Fact Sheet, 4/18/1995, "Los Angeles Times Pulitzer Prizes"; related items.

Box 595, Folder 10

Awards - Pulitzer Prize, 1942 1938 - 1942

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: 35-pp. printout off Lexis-Nexis, material from US Supreme Court and California Supreme Court; 3-pp. descriptions of "Awards of the Pulitzer Prizes and Traveling Scholarships"; collection of LAT stories on the lead-up to the "Contempt Trial"; collection of LAT articles related to LAT receiving a Pulitzer Prize in 1942, including the headlines "Tribute Paid 'Times' by American Press...great newspapers, wire associations and men in public life send congratulatory messages" (5/7/1942) and "Prize emblem sent to 'Times' "; teletype printout, 5/4/1942, reading in part, that LAT had earlier "instituted litigation which produced a Supreme Court opinion last December upholding the right of newspapers to publish criticism of judicial opinion, even in cases still pending, unless the comment would cause 'extremely serious' evil"; The "Contempt Case" began in 1938, and lasted nearly four years.

Box 596

Reference File - Los Angeles Times

Box 596, Folder 1

Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1946 - Bruce Russell 1946

Scope and Contents

2 items: LAT article copy, 5/7/1946, "Pulitzer Prize Awarded to 'Times' cartoonist"; LAT article copy, 5/8/1946, "Bruce Russell wins the Pulitzer Prize."

Box 596, Folder 2

Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1955 - John L. Gaunt 1955, 1962

Scope and Contents

7 items: two photocopies (in two sizes) of the certificate for John Gaunt's Pulitzer Prize for News Photography; three LAT article copies--4/4/, 5/3, 5/10/1955--on various prizes Gaunt won for "Tragedy in the Surf (a.k.a. "Tragedy in the Sea"); two copies, Among Ourselves article, 6/1955, "Gaunt wins third Pulitzer for Times";

Box 596, Folder 3

Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1960 - Gene Sherman 1960 - 1961

Scope and Contents

3 items: UPI article copy, 5/3/1960, "Pulitzer public service prize awarded to The Times"; Among Ourselves article copy, 6/1960, "Pulitzer Prize awarded Times...Gene Sherman's articles on narcotics traffic honored"; LAT article copy (Nick B. Williams column), 2/19/1961, "A little luck helps."

Box 596, Folder 4

Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1969 - William Tuohy and Gold Medal 1969, 1991

Scope and Contents

9 items: 2-pp. press release, from Columbia Univ., "Pulitzer Prizes -- 1969...International Reporting Award to William Tuohy (LAT) - Few correspondents have seen and written more about the war in Vietnam than William Tuohy..."; article copy, Among Ourselves, 5/1969, "Times wins two Pulitzer Prizes"; LAT article copy, "Times honored with two Pulitzer Prizes...expose' of wrongdoing in City government, coverage of Viet war earn coveted awards"; tear sheet, Editor & Publisher, 5/10/1969, "Pulitzer medal for public service is awarded to Los Angeles Times"; letter from The White House, signed "Dick," 5/13/1969, congratulating Otis Chandler on the Pulitzer award; related items and dupes.

Box 596, Folder 5

Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1971 - Paul Conrad 1964, 1971

Scope and Contents

7 items: Among Ourselves article copy, 5/1964, "Paul Conrad wins Pulitzer Prize"; copies (and dupes) of AP, LAT and Among Ourselves stories about Paul Conrad winning his second Pulitzer for Editorial cartooning in 5/1971; LAT article copy, 5/9/1971, "Conrad honored."

Box 596, Folder 6

Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1976 - Phil Kerby 1975 - 1976

Scope and Contents

9 items: Management Bulletin, 5/3/1976, announces Phil Kerby's being awarded a Pulitzer Prize for distinguished editorial writing; LAT article copy, 5/4/1976, "Times editorial writer awarded Pulitzer Prize"; LAT article copy, 5/4/1976, "Kerby's Pulitzer caps a career to be prized"; dupes of previous stories; tear sheet and copy, Among Ourselves, 6/1976, "Phil Kerby's Pulitzer - coveted award caps 45-year news career"; sturdy folder containing 8 editorials by Kerby from LAT during 1975 (for which he won Prize), with an introduction by Otis Chandler; flyer from same time frame, "Phil Kerby worries about freedom. Everybody's."

Box 596, Folder 7

Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1978 - Gaylord Shaw 1978

Scope and Contents

3 items: LAT article copy, 4/18/1978, "Times' Gaylord Shaw wins Pulitzer for series on dams"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 5/1978, "Gaylord Shaw's determination wins Pulitzer Prize"; poster (1978), "How does a reporter win the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting? Like this..." - this text is next to photo of Gaylord Shaw.

Box 596, Folder 8

Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1982 - Martin Bernheimer 1982

Scope and Contents

3 items: letter copy, 4/14/1982, from Otis Chandler to Dan Fisher related to Pulitzer selections of 1978; letter copy, 4/19/1982, from Martin Bernheimer to William Thomas, Editor of The Times, related to receiving the Prize and, as Bernheimer writes, being "touched, delighted, flattered and, yes, embarrassed" by the way LAT made a big event of it; article copy, Among Ourselves, 5/1982, "Martin Bernheimer wins Pulitzer."

Box 596, Folder 9

Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1984 - Paul Conrad and Latino series 1983 - 1984

Scope and Contents

4 items: paperbound book - 9" x 12", Southern California's Latino Community, a series of articles reprinted from LAT, 1983;, LAT article copy, 5/1984, "Times wins 2 Pulitzers...public service, Conrad"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 5/1984, "Times wins two Pulitzers"; full-page ad from LAT, 6/10/1984, headed "The Pulitzers are the Gold Medals of our business -- Times Mirror."

Box 596, Folder 10

Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1985 - Howard Rosenberg 1984 - 1985

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: LAT clips and copies, Among Ourselves article on Howard Rosenberg's winning of the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism; list, headed "Pulitzer entries...Criticism...Howard Rosenberg"; full-page from LAT (purchased by the Orange County Register) congratulating Rosenberg on his award; a follow-up column by Rosenberg a few days later describing the experience of winning the Pulitzer Prize and his reactions; related material.

Box 596, Folder 11

Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1987 - Richard Eder and Michael Parks 1987

Scope and Contents

3 items: LAT article copy, 4/17/1987, "Times wins 2 Pulitzers for foreign reports, criticism"; Among Ourselves article copy, 5/1987, "The Times wins 2 Pulitzers...Michael Parks honored for foreign coverage, Richard Eder for criticism"; full-page LAT ad, 4/17/1987, "Winning Times Two," related to Pulitzer wins.

Box 596, Folder 12

Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1990 - Jim Murray 1990

Scope and Contents

2 items: LAT article reprinted from Lexis-Nexis, 5-pp., "Times Jim Murray wins Pulitzer for commentary," 4/13/1990; tear sheet from Among Ourselves, 4/1990, "Jim Murray wins Pulitzer Prize."

Box 596, Folder 13

Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1991 - David Shaw 1991

Scope and Contents

1 item: 5-pp. printout from Lexis-Nexis of LAT article of 4/10/1991, "Times reporter Shaw wins Pulitzer Prize for Criticism..."

Box 596, Folder 14

Awards - Second Baptist Church 1975

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: letter, 4/24/1975, from Thomas Kilgore, Jr. (Pastor, 2nd Baptist Church) to Otis Chandler informing him that Los Angeles Times would be recognized with the church's Decade Award ; LAT article copy, 5/10/1975, "L.A. church to note 90th birthday" ; the award medal in plastic sleeve ; plastic sleeve containing 90th Anniversary Dinner program, the Award Certificate (dated 5/13/1975), 2-pp. list of recipients and presenters, letter to Robert Flannes from the church, LAT memo from Flannes to William F. Thomas ; letter, 5/15/1975, from Flannes to Dr. Thomas Kilgore, Jr., expressing thanks for the award ; photo & caption copied from Among Ourselves, 7/1975, "Robert L. Flannes... at Second Baptist Church (Awards Banquet)" ; more. Note on original folder: "From Robert Flannes file."

Box 596, Folder 15

Banners 1881 - 1994

Scope and Contents

Copies of mastheads and banners for Los Angeles Times newspaper. Banners date from 1881 - 1994.

Box 596, Folder 16

Buildings - Eagle 1891 - 1998

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Material on the Times Eagle, its creator, Gutzon Borglum, Mt. Rushmore monument (which Borglum also sculpted), 3-pp. biography of Borglum, events in the "history" of the sculpted eagle, several photocopies of LAT articles mentioning the eagle.

Box 596, Folder 17

Buildings - First 1928, 1929, 1961

Scope and Contents

5 items. Several pages copied from "History of Los Angeles Times" (appears to be an in-house publication); 2 copies of an article titled "Our Original Home--the Cradle of The Times"; a reminiscence by an early LAT employee titled "Looking Backward" (previous two items from Among Ourselves); segment copied from William Andrew Spalding--Los Angeles Newspaperman, a book with material on the early history of LAT.

Box 596, Folder 18

Buildings - Second 1886 - 1888, 1893, 1895, 1928 - 1929, 1970, 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items. Articles on the new Times building constructed in 1887. Articles have been copied from LAT and Among Ourselves. One additional article is from Civic Center News (11/13/1979), and is an interview with Ernest Lindner, "descended from a family closely identified with the history of printing and typesetting in Los Angeles."

Box 596, Folder 19

Buildings - Second - Bombing - Accounts 1910, 1915, 1986 - 1988, 1990,

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Subjects relate to the 1910 bombing of LAT building: 14-pp. report on the bombing and the circumstances surrounding it (with covering note by Durham J. "Durrie" Monsma; 3-pp. letter (7/8/1957) to LAT "Editor" from "Ernest Rhoads, Ex-Battalion Chief," L.A. Fire Dept., who not only fought the fire caused by the bombing, but spoke in person to "Tom [J.B.] McNamara" decades later in prison, and asked him, "Would you do it again?" The letter provides the answer and more details; several accounts of the bombing written in later years; lists of news clippings and editorials related to the bombing and trial; 12+ pp. headed "James B. and John J. McNamara - Papers, 1905-1961"; 30-pp. "Special Report," by "H.G. Otis," dated 10/31/1910 (30 days after bombing), "Our Sad Misfortune: the dynamiting and destruction of the Times Building."

Box 596, Folder 20

Buildings - Second - Bombing - Caplan, David Trial 1916

Scope and Contents

Approx. 38 items. Clips of news stories related to the trial of David Caplan, "charged with murder in connection with the bombing of the original Times building."

Box 596, Folder 21

Buildings - Second - Bombing - Clippings 1910 - 1911

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Articles about the bombing and the resulting trial, photocopied or clipped from: LAT; Oakland Tribune; The Pacific Printer; L.A. Examiner. Also LAT prepared chronologies included.

Box 596, Folder 22

Buildings - Second - Bombing - Clippings 1912 - 1916

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items. News clippings from LAT on persons involved in bombing trial:McNamara, Darrow, Schmidt, McManigal, Clancy, Ironworkers union, Gompers, etc.

Box 597

Reference File - Los Angeles Times

Box 597, Folder 1

Buildings - Second - Bombing - Darrow, Clarence 1907 - 1975

Scope and Contents

8 items. Material related to attorney Clarence Darrow and his involvement in the LAT bombing trial in 1911. Items include: sheet headed "DK/8/78 - Los Angeles Times, Bombing of: - Clarence Darrow 1) Los Angeles Times Clippings"; 61-pp. booklet, "The Darrow Bribery Trial" (1956); 1987 Reference Request form, LAT Archives, for two clippings; "Portion of Henry Fonda performance of 'Clarence Darrow' - 1975"; various newspaper clippings mentioning Darrow;etc.

Box 597, Folder 2

Buildings - Second - Bombing - Lawler, Oscar. 1959 - 1978

Scope and Contents

3 items: sheet with "DK/8/78" at top, with info about the other items; 50-pp. (89-138) transcription from Oscar Lawler Oral History. labeled "Chapter X: McNamara and Clarence Darrow Trials" (according to the UCLA online catalog, the oral history with Oscar Lawler was taped in 1959 and 1960); newspaper clipping of 1/4/1966, obituary of "Oscar Lawler, 90...Played prominent role in Investigation of 1910 Bombing of The Times Building."

Box 597, Folder 3

Buildings - Second - Bombing - Legal Documents circa 1911, 1967

Scope and Contents

7 items. Some of the items in this folder are quite yellowed and beginning to crumble, especially a stapled copy of "Plea and answer of J.J. McNamara." Also "People vs. M.A. Schmidt," material related to the trial from County Archives, including "Report of the Mayor's Committee," copy of J.B. McNamara's handwritten confession, letter from General Secretary of the United Shoeworkers of America to Gov. Hyram Johnson, General (Harrison Gray) Otis, and to the McNamara brothers. The letter refers to "the unspeakable General Otis of Los Angeles." A 1967 cover letter from C.J. Hyans to Carl Greenberg of LAT, attached to a 1950 letter from attorney Joseph Scott to Hyans. The older letter deals with the bombing and trial.

Box 597, Folder 4

Buildings - Second - Bombing - McNamara, James and John undated

Scope and Contents

1 item. 41-pp. manuscript , "James and his brother John: a portrait of the McNamaras in their time," by Thomas Connors. No date on the manuscript, but one source citation dates from 1991. COPYRIGHT TO THIS PIECE IS OWNED BY THOMAS CONNORS. PLEASE CONTACT THE CURATOR FOR MORE DETAILS REGARDING PERMISSION TO PUBLISH.

Box 597, Folder 5

Buildings - Second - Bombing - Publications 1911 - 1994

Scope and Contents

Approx. 22 items. Articles related to the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times building. Articles copied or clipped from the following magazines: Westways; American History Illustrated; Southern California Quarterly (Spring 1988) - 2 articles, "The McNamara Case: A Window on Class Antagonism in the Progressive Era," and "The Fall of Job Harriman's Socialist Party: Violence, Gender and Politics in Los Angeles, 1911"; Labor History; Time; Sunday News; True-The Men's Magazine; Saturday Evening Post; Hampton's Magazine; L.A. Times; San Francisco Examiner; others.

Box 597, Folder 6

Buildings - Third 1911 - 1973

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items. Photocopied material, most of it from the pages of LAT, related to the location, construction and opening of the third LAT building in 1912 - about two years after the bombing destroyed the former building. Also, two copies of a brochure - "Los Angeles Times: Announcing the Opening of the Rebuilt and Restored Times Building," produced in 1912.

Box 597, Folder 7

Buildings - Third - Plaques undated

Scope and Contents

1 item. Photocopied sheet, "from LAT Fact Book announcing the opening of the rebuilt and restored Times Bldg. (1911-12) 3rd 1938." The copied entry begins with the heading "The Tablets and Their Legends."

Box 597, Folder 8

Buildings - Fourth 1934 - 1984

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Materials include: 5 copies in plastic sleeves, Editor & Publisher article reprint, 8/10/1935, "Los Angeles Times New $4,000,000 Home Combines Beauty and Efficiency"; photocopy of article from Advertising Age, 1/30/1984, "By their buildings shall ye know them: behind every newspaper home office is a bit of history"; 1-pp. report, "The Globe," with detailed description of the construction and design of the globe, including the metals, paints, and lacquers used in the project; 1-pp. report (dated 5/29/1980) based on information provided by Mary Sheridan of Los Angeles, who had been in charge of a "rejuvenation" done on the glove in the early 1960s; brief booklet, "The Murals of The Times," w/ illustrations of two sections of Lobby mural, 8 graphs of text; various "Among Ourselves" articles on Globe Lobby (various years); artist's rendering of 1935 LAT building; 2 copies of a 2-pp. description of the 1934 laying of the cornerstone for the building; various text items related to cornerstone laying; material related to selection of items to place in the cornerstone; 2 copies of illustrated cross-section/chart of departments and activities in various sections of building; 2-pp. "Transcription of a record[ing] made at the laying of the cornerstone of the Los Angeles Times [building] in 1934"; etc. Reprints of "Editor and Publisher" article moved to Reference File - Oversize.

Box 597, Folder 9

Buildings - Fourth - Earlier Buildings on Property 1935, 1970

Scope and Contents

2 items: 6-pp. photocopied from Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853 - 1913, by Harris Newmark; 3-pp. from The City That Grew, Boyle Workman, as told to Caroline Walker. Both works contain information on history of the downtown Los Angeles area, specifically the blocks around 1st and Spring.

Box 597, Folder 10

Buildings - Fourth - Barber Shop 1953

Scope and Contents

1 item. Clip from "Among Ourselves" (8/1953), "Fifth Chandler gets shorn in 'clip joint'" - on Otis Chandler's 2 year-old son, Norman, becoming the 5th generation of the Chandlers to have haircut from barber Sam David, who had a shop in the Times building.

Box 597, Folder 11

Buildings - Fourth - Globe 1935, 1980 - 1981

Scope and Contents

6 items. Materials include: 1-pp. report, "The Globe," with detailed description of the construction and design of the globe, including the metals, paints, and lacquers used in the project; 1-pp. report (dated 5/29/1980) based on information provided by Mary Sheridan of Los Angeles, who had been in charge of a "rejuvenation" done on the glove in the early 1960s; 1-pp. report titled "Facts about the Los Angeles Times Globe (no date); "Among Ourselves" clip, 5/1981, on LAT "Superwalk" fundraiser for March of Dimes; 1-pp. photocopy from Editor & Publisher, 8/10/1935, describing new LAT building (poorly cropped - no title or author seen); booklet, "The Murals of The Times," with illustrations of the Globe in the lobby, the south and north sections of mural, eight paragraphs of text.

Box 597, Folder 12

Buildings - Fourth - Interiors 1984

Scope and Contents

1 item. Article from Interior Design, 3/1984, "The Los Angeles Times: Charles Kratka Associates consolidates the editorial department's various branches into a single newsroom facility."

Box 597, Folder 13

Buildings - Fourth - Lobby 1933 - 1999

Scope and Contents

Approx. 16 items. Materials include: Event sheet for Lobby Re-opening, January 25, 1999; 2 "Lobby Exhibit & Tours" booklets (1981); exchange of memos (9/4/1981) between Lois Markwith & Franklin D. Murphy, information related to Shakespeare quote (and other inscriptions ?) used in lobby decor; memo from Markwith to Robert Flannes (11/1981); other correspondence related to determining origin of the quotations; LAT story 10/17/1934 on carved inscriptions at LAT building; letter (4/1/1981) from Mary Sheridan, designer, about complete refurbishment of the Globe; 1962 LAT Women of the Year entry for Mary Sheridan; blueprint copy, "Details Main Lobby Plans & Elevations & Miscellaneous Scale Details," (9/22/1933); blueprint, "Main Lobby Remodeling, Times Mirror Company (4/25/1961); etc. Both blueprint copies moved to Reference File - Oversize. 2 photographs: "Magic Stylus" exhibit display in the lobby, undated?

Box 597, Folder 14

Buildings - Fourth - Murals 1934 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx 10 items: collection of articles on restoration of the murals in the LAT "Globe" Lobby. Among the publications represented are Los Angeles Conservancy, Society of Architectural Historians News, etc.

Box 598

Reference File - Los Angeles Times

Box 598, Folder 1

Buildings - Fourth - Mural Restoration - Logs and Memos 1989 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items: project logs, memos and other material related to the restoration of the Ballin murals in LAT Globe Lobby.

Box 598, Folder 2

Buildings - Fourth - Mural Restoration - Conservator Information 1989 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 40 items: letters, invoices, other material related to the consulting and other work of conservators Scott Haskins, Rosamond Westmoreland and Tanya Thompson.

Box 598, Folder 3

Buildings - Fourth - Mural Restoration - Fine Art Conservation Laboratories 1990

Scope and Contents

1 item: "documentation packet for the Globe Lobby mural project..." - includes letters, project proposal, financial bid, conservation treatment summary - approx. 15 pp. plus plastic sheets with b/w photos and photographic slides enclosed. The packet was prepared by Scott Haskins of Fine Art Conservation Laboratories. Binding removed.

Box 598, Folder 4

Buildings - Fourth - Mural Restoration - Reception 1989 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: several versions of guest list for mural reception - "a celebration of rediscovery," according to the invitation ; 5-pp. text of "David Laventhol remarks" for delivery at the reception ; memos and other material related to the planning for the reception of 5/30/1990.

Box 598, Folder 5

Buildings - Cannon 1898

Scope and Contents

2 items: copy of undated article in LAT with headline "Fine piece of ordnance presented to The Times; copy of article (5/15/1898) with headlines "Times War Whistle Code" and below that, "Sky Rocket Signal Service," the later related to "six rockets of red to indicate an American victory" being fired from the roof of the Times Building.

Box 598, Folder 6

Buildings - History undated, 1928 - 1929

Scope and Contents

7 items: biographical info on Merrell Gage, sculptor, "north side of Times Building"; original and 1 copy of "Homes of the Times," 6 typed sheets; 1-sheet (half size) with info. about moving a plaque within the building, that showed "all the World [War] I names"; two Among Ourselves articles, "Our original home --the cradle of The Times" (6/1929) and "Looking Backward" (11/1928); "O/C notes on first four Times Mirror headquarters," 4-pp. on green paper.

Box 598, Folder 7

Buildings - Off-site 1958, 1989 - 1990

Scope and Contents

4 items: "Extra" - a mock-up of an LAT front page for 4/21/1989 with two articles about LAT Public Information staff; Management Bulletin, 4/13/1989, on departments relocated to the Powell Building; Employee Bulletin, 11/8/1990; on Powell Building structure having "asbestos-containing construction materials" in it; Photocopy of clipping from LAT dated 2/2/1958. Headline is "Service garage project construction furthered."

Box 598, Folder 8

Buildings - Olympic Plant. 1986 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items. Materials include: clippings and photocopies of articles from LAT and Among Ourselves; announcements of groundbreakings, building openings and tours of the facility; entire LAT Front Page section (in plastic sleeve), 3/6/1990, bearing headline, "Olympic Plant Dedicated"; 3 copies of 1990 booklet about the plant.

Box 598, Folder 9

Buildings - Orange County Facility 1968 - 1975

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Materials include: 2 copies of a tabloid-sized newsprint section (undated) titled "The New Orange County Home of The Los Angeles Times; management bulletins; reports and memos about the (Orange County) Satellite Plant; two photocopied Editor & Publisher articles on LAT Orange County plant (3/1/1969 & 6/6/1970) - headlines "New concept in expansion..." and "How Los Angeles Times produces satellite paper"; article from Printing Production magazine, 8/1968, "Satellite plant pioneers"; other magazine clippings, including LAT and Among Ourselves; Management Conference Bulletin about a tour and barbecue dinner at the Orange County Satellite Facility; etc.

Box 598, Folder 10

Buildings - Parking Structures 1988 - 1989

Scope and Contents

9 items: clipping, Downtown News, 12/12/1988, "Times opens parking structure" (213 S. Spring); LAT clipping (photocopy), "Broadway building losing skylights and top floors" (9/?/1970); letter from Tom Johnson to Carolyn Strickler of LAT History Center, inviting her to ceremony marking completion of 213 S. Spring parking structure; memo announcing opening ceremony for "213" garage on 12/9/1988; LAT article (2 photocopies), 11/1972, "Times Mirror Square garage slated for January opening" (2nd & Broadway facility); 7 copied sheets with historic photos of downtown L.A.; photocopy of LAT article, 1/21/1988, "(Parking garage) builders dig up a piece of L.A.'s Jewish history"; Downtown News article (1/30/1989), on LAT "213" parking structure's sculpted murals.

Box 598, Folder 11

Buildings - San Fernando Valley Facility 1980 - 1984

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items. Materials include: general information on San Fernando Valley Plant; Editor & Publisher articles on planning and design of the plant, and on the ground-breaking; LAT articles on the new plant; etc.

Box 598, Folder 12

Buildings - Times Mirror Square - Historic Maps. 1887, 1936

Scope and Contents

3 items. Two maps (photocopies) of LAT location and surrounding area from 1880s, identifying street names and businesses; similar map with notation 1936-HS441.

Box 598, Folder 13

Buildings - Times Mirror Square - List of Plans undated

Scope and Contents

Approx. 40 printed sheets laid out in columns/rows with column headings such as "Proj.," "Preparer," and "Description," and phrases such as "Duct layout" and Concrete framing plan" under "Description." Dates entered range from 1930s to 1980s.

Box 599

Reference File - Los Angeles Times

Box 599, Folder 1

Departments - Accounting, Credit and Finance 1928, 1931, 1949

Scope and Contents

3 items: (4-sheets) photocopied photo essay from Among Ourselves, 12/1949, "Tabulating Dept.'s Mechanical Brains Know All the Answers"; clipped article, Among Ourselves, 6/1931, "A Machine Almost Human"; (2-sheets) cover and article, Among Ourselves, 11/1928, "Travails of a Treasurer."

Box 599, Folder 2

Departments - Accounting, Credit and Finance - Bulletins 1986 - 1987

Scope and Contents

17 items. Bulletins addressed to "Management Personnel," subjects include announcement of promotions of employees, travel policies, requisition information, telephone service evaluations, etc.

Box 599, Folder 3

Departments - Accounting, Credit and Finance - Chart of Accounts 1965, 1967

Scope and Contents

3 items: "Chart of Accounts - Times-Mirror Company...April 30, 1965" (91 pp.); "General Features Corporation -- Chart of Features Numbers" (8/4/1967); form headed "Transmittal Sheet" (no date).

Box 599, Folder 4

Departments - Accounting, Credit and Finance - Chart of Accounts 1976

Scope and Contents

1 item: "Chart of Accounts," effective 1/1/1976, (151 pp.)

Box 599, Folder 5

Departments - Accounting, Credit and Finance - Micrographics and records 1958, 1965

Scope and Contents

10 items: series of memos and reports, 1958-1965, related to "beginnings of microfilming & rudimentary records management system," per attached note; LAT Microfilm Editions price list, 1901-1971; (4 copies) ad/order form for LAT Microfilm Editions, "Missing Something," ca. 1979; (4 copies) ad/info booklet, "(LAT) Microfilm Editions," ca. 1979.

Box 599, Folder 6

Departments - Accounting, Credit and Finance - Payroll 1987 - 1989

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: LAT forms--time cards, vacation vouchers, Report of Absence; card with "Information on 1988 payroll tax rates..."; bulletins on 1987 and 1988 payroll tax rates; LAT informational flyers on "direct deposit" and "Free Checking," etc.

Box 599, Folder 7

Departments - Accounting, Credit and Finance - Personnel 1983 - 1990

Scope and Contents

12 "Management Bulletin(s)" with information on personnel transfers and promotions.

Box 599, Folder 8

Departments - Accounting, Credit and Finance - Personnel - Management Bios 1971 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 75 items. Bio reports include the following information: department, name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development, date of preparation.

Box 599, Folder 9

Departments - Accounting, Credit and Finance - Receipts 1932, 1934, 1962

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items. Materials include a stack of invoice forms from 1932 to Times-Mirror Co. and LAT from Steel Furniture Manufacturing Co. of Baldwin Park, CA; informal inventory of "Number of typewriters in Editorial Depts"; "Requisition...for Supplies" form (1962); blueprint (no date) "Front elevation of typewriter stand"; stack of correspondence from office furniture providers on topic of typewriter stands (1934); (2 copies) Times-Mirror Co. "Specifications for typewriter stands (1934); legal-sized sheet headed "Schedule 'A' - Office furniture and equipment...to be furnished...(by) Metal Office Furniture Company, Grand Rapids, Mich.," etc.

Box 599, Folder 10

Departments - Accounting, Credit and Finance - Reports 1937

Scope and Contents

3 items, stapled together: 2 letters from the California Division of Labor Statistics and Law Enforcement to Times-Mirror Co. (1937); one "Volume of Employment - Manufacturing" form from (Calif.) Department of Industrial Relations, with entries made for June - December, 1937.

Box 599, Folder 11

Departments - Accounting, Credit and Finance - Travel Reimbursement Policy 1988

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT "Travel & Entertainment Guide - Policy for reimbursable business expenses" (6/1/1988), 62 pp.

Box 599, Folder 12

Departments - Administrative Services 1958, 1983 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items. Most items are LAT "Management Bulletins" or "Employee Bulletins," 1983 - 1990. Also a 1958 Philip Chandler memo on LAT mail procedures and mail costs, and 1989 LAT flyer, "The Case of the Relocated Departments," to explain (with humor) how to find departments that had been relocated across Spring St. from Times Mirror Square (text, map and illustrations).

Box 599, Folder 13

Departments - Administrative Services - Personnel 1983, 1987

Scope and Contents

2 items: "Management Bulletin," 11/4/1983, "Elizabeth L. Chapman has been promoted to... Secretarial Services Supervisor in the Admin. Services Department"; "Management Bulletin," 5/27/1987, announcing "the promotion of Betty Chapman to...Support Services Manager."

Box 599, Folder 14

Departments - Administrative Services - Personnel - Bios 1973 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 65 items. Material consists of personnel bios for administrative services personnel dated 1973-1979.

Box 599, Folder 15

Departments - Administrative Services - Purchasing 1988, 1990

Scope and Contents

2 items: Employee Bulletin, 12/2/1988, regarding "Federal Express...is offering substantial discounts to Times employees who sign up for a Federal Express Card"; Management Bulletin, 11/19/1990, "inventory for Shipping & Receiving/Stockroom will be held November 26 - 29, 1990."

Box 599, Folder 16

Departments - Administrative Services - Purchasing Policies & Procedure 1988 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Item: one copy, unbound, "Purchasing Policies and Procedures," 154 pp. (1988, 1989,1990)

Box 599, Folder 17

Departments - Administrative Services - Voicemail systems 1995

Scope and Contents

1 item: 1/9/1995 memo on subject of "Audix Upgrade," reading in part, "January 29 we will be replacing the Audix voice mail system at Times Mirror Square and the Olympic Facility with a new 'Intuity' voice mail system."

Box 600

Reference File - Los Angeles Times

Box 600, Folder 1

Departments - Advertising 1929 - 1987

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items: 4" x 7" 3-ring notebook with title page reading, "Los Angeles Times: Dominating newspaper in America's 4th largest market"; sheet titled "Summary -- all advertising (Morning and Sunday total)," covering years 1966 - 1974; blue, spiral-bound booklet, "Advertising Ratios, 1961," (10 pp., binding removed); multi-page reports with cover page reading "Advertising Ratios, 1958," and "Advertising Rations, 1959"; various clips on LAT ranking in ad linage; ad marketing reports with info on 1930s through 1970s; report headed "Top Ten newspapers in total advertising linage" (1968-1969); special section of Sales and Marketing Management, 6/1986, which ranked Times Mirror #1 in the Publishing & Printing category of "America's Best Sales Forces"; other clips and information relating to LAT advertising and newspaper advertising in general. Notebook removed to Reference File - Oversize.

Box 600, Folder 2

Departments - Advertising - Linage - Southern California newspaper comparisons 1960 - 1983

Scope and Contents

9 items: "Media Records, Linage Analysis" (1980 vs. 1981) for 7 Southern California newspapers; five separate reports, "Media Records, Linage Analysis," cover 1982 vs. 1983 [reports range from 8 to 20 pp.]; two columnar reports give "Total Advertising Linage - Los Angeles Newspapers (LAT, Examiner, Herald-Express, etc.) from 1930 - 1960

Box 600, Folder 3

Departments - Advertising - Linage - Top newspaper comparisons 1950 - 1985

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Materials include: 2-pp. report, "1st Ten Leaders in each major classification of newspaper advertising in the U.S., first 11 months, 1981"; "1st Ten Leaders in each major classification of newspaper advertising in the U.S., first 11 months, 1974"; [ditto] 1972; more material, various combinations of data, LAT vs. national competitors, 1950s,1960s, 1970s, and up to 1985.

Box 600, Folder 4

Departments - Advertising - Linage - Miscellaneous sources 1927-1983

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items. Material includes: memos containing data on "media records linage"; data on LAT total advertising linage, 1948-1960; photocopies of LAT stories (and other sources) on the paper's top rankings in ad linage from 1920s through 1960s; detailed memo (7-pp.) on "Rate Analysis," dated 10/14/1981'; 11-pp. report headed "Full run classified comparison - versus prior year [1982-1983, some 1970s and 1960s data incl.]; etc.

Box 600, Folder 5

Departments - Advertising - Linage - Marketing Research reports. 1980 - 1984

Scope and Contents

Material includes: year-by-year comparisons of LAT Advertising Linage 1972 - 1983, 1967 - 1984, and 1969 - 1979

Box 600, Folder 6

Departments - Advertising - Revenue 1993

Scope and Contents

4 items. Material includes: 1-pp. columnar report, "History of Classified Performance," 1973-1993; (Display) Net Revenue, 1980-1992; 1-pp., Display Advert. - Total Net Revenue, 1983-1992; Classified Advert., revenues, 1983-1992.

Box 600, Folder 7

Departments - Circulation circa 1908 - 1994

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Material includes: 3-pp. report in clear plastic sleeve, "Times circulation in the early years" (date of 1908 or after indicated); photocopy of Among Ourselves article, "Those Glorious Old Days," 10/1928; adv. flyers, 1981, for LAT-published book, Los Angeles 200: a Bicentennial Celebration, & mail order forms in plastic sleeve; 1 copy, LAT "Circulation Sales Manual" (1932); six reproductions of 1912 LAT promo. post cards; spiral-bound circulation sale booklet, "Good News for Southern California" (ca. 1966); employee bulletins/news releases on to circulation. sales; labor flyer of OC picketers, 10/30/1975, headed "(LAT) seizes power and control -- HELP STOP THE TAKEOVER; various circulation. promo materials; L.A. Business Journal article, 9/5/1994, "...Times continues to dominate the war of words." 1 photograph: snapshot of a man and woman at the circulation desk, undated.

Box 600, Folder 8

Departments - Circulation - Articles 1928 - 1975

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Material includes: Among Ourselves and LAT articles (and ads) announcing circulation achievements or promoting circulation;

Box 600, Folder 9

Departments - Circulation - Accounts 1977

Scope and Contents

Item is 100+ pp., "Circulation Project Committee Progress Report" (by J.G. Vermuelen, 12/22/1977). Page 1 reads in part, "A project committee was formed during March, 1977...to identify and resolve circulation problems with the primary goals of: reducing costs and increasing revenue; improving customer service; and improving the circulation billing system.

Box 600, Folder 10

Departments - Circulation - Best of the Times 1982

Scope and Contents

1 item: tear sheet of article, Editor & Publisher, 10/16/1982, "The hows and whys of marriage mail [shared mail]."

Box 600, Folder 11

Departments - Circulation - California Circulation Managers Association 1941, 1942, 1945

Scope and Contents

3 items : 32-pp. booklet, "California Circulation Managers' Association, 23rd Annual Convention," Hotel Biltmore, Los Angeles, CA., 1941; 32-pp. booklet, "California Circulation Managers' Association, 24th Annual Convention," Hotel Mark Hopkins, San Francisco, CA, 1942; 7-pp. program, stapled to cardboard backing, "California Circulation Managers' Association, 27th Annual Convention, 1945.

Box 600, Folder 12

Departments - Circulation - Carriers 1946 - 1987, 1995

Scope and Contents

150 + items. Material includes: "news" briefs and longer articles about benefits of beings an LAT delivery person - parties, summer camp, visiting Washington, DC (and meeting VP Nixon), scholarships, other financial incentives, etc. Several clips on newsboys (virtually all were male in the time frame) who did something notable, such as rescuing a 12-year old playmate from a cave-in, 1 item. Example of a card sent out by circulation carriers to subscribers on their route at Holiday season. Illustration on the front shows Santa Claus, with a big sack of LAT driving an off-road vehicle with oversized tires, etc.

Box 600, Folder 13

Departments - Circulation - Dealers 1938, 1948, 1950

Scope and Contents

3 items, stapled: 3-pp. "Dealer's Agreement" (canceled 1950); 2-pp. "Cash Bond Agreement" (canceled 1950); 1948 letter from R.F. Marx, LAT Circulation Manager, to Ernest Barber (a dealer) informing him of a price increase for LAT copies furnished, other details.

Box 600, Folder 14

Departments - Circulation - Delivery wagons 1927, 1990

Scope and Contents

5 items: note from Robert Erburu to Carolyn Strickler (2/12/1990) asking to retrieve a "Times four-wheel wagon that...I kept in my office until it was remodeled in 1986...the wagon was sent to the Archives"; Carolyn Strickler reply to Mr. Erburu (2/21/1990), reading in part, "...we do indeed have it. Just let me know when you want us to bring it up"; copy of photo and article, "And we all ride," from Among Ourselves, 7/1927; additional photocopies of photos of LAT 4-wheeled wagons of the 1920s. The wagons are now a collector's item. The logo "Buy the Los Angeles Times from me" was painted on the side of the wagons.

Box 601

Reference File - Los Angeles Times

Box 601, Folder 1

Departments - Circulation - Audit Bureau of Circulation 1959, 1961, 1994

Scope and Contents

5 + items (one edge water-damaged on entire stack, no text lost): 4 Audit Reports (by Audit Bureau of Circulations) "for 12 months ending March 31, 1959," for Herald & Express (L.A.), Examiner (L.A.), Mirror News (L.A.), and Times (L.A.); additional 10-pp. with columns of figures related to circulation for the same newspapers. Audit Bureau of Circulations, "Newspaper Publisher's Statement - for 6 months ended Sept. 30, 1994 - Los Angeles Times." Report provides information on total circulation, and on many different aspects of the newspaper's sales, promotion, marketing and distribution.

Box 601, Folder 2

Departments - Circulation - Suburban Sections. 1971, 1980, 1987

Scope and Contents

4 items: 4 reports, all titled "Circulation History of the Los Angeles Times Suburban Sections." date of issue is not readily apparent on all of them. One appears to date from 5/1971, another circa 1980, the other, of which there are 2 copies, is dated 8/1987. They feature circulation. figures with some description of local areas covered.

Box 601, Folder 3

Departments - Circulation - ABC Southern California Newspaper Comparison 1962 - 1982

Scope and Contents

Approx. 40 sheets of information, in various combinations of circulation information for all southern California newspaper, from very small ones (Tulare Advance-Register, circulation. 5,200, 3/31/'65) to LAT (circulation. 830,000, 3/31/'65). 1 other item in folder--LAT "Timely Bulletin: total circulation and subscription /copy cost of Southern California ABC newspapers," publication date 2/1977. All compiled by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

Box 601, Folder 4

Departments - Circulation - ABC Top 30 Newspaper Comparison 1954 - 1982

Scope and Contents

40 + reports, in various combinations, of circulation figures for the Top 30 national newspapers, morning, evening, Sunday, etc. All compiled by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

Box 601, Folder 5

Departments - Circulation - Marketing Research Reports 1970 - 1994

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items: many loose, 1-pp. reports on circulation; 10-pp. report, "L.A. Times Net Paid Circulation, 1960-1989"; 10-pp. report, "L.A. Times Net Paid Circulation, 1955-1983"; 10-pp. report, "L.A. Times Net Paid Circulation"; 9-pp. report, "L.A. Times Net Paid Circulation, 1976-1980 and Jan. - Sept. 1981"; 9-pp. report, "(LAT) Net Paid Circulation, - 1981-1984 and Jan. - Sept. 1985"; 10-pp. report, "LAT) Net Paid Circulation, 1955-1984"; 10-pp. report, "LAT) Net Paid Circulation, 1959-1988"; (incomplete) "L.A. Times Net Paid Circulation," - 1955-1979 and Jan. - March 1980"; 5-pp. report, LAT, "Circulation and Classified,"Circulation Gains and Losses since 1931"; 10-pp. report, title handwritten at top of page 1 - "Street Sale Circe. Stats, selected months, 1990-94." Compiled by Marketing Research department.

Box 601, Folder 6

Departments - Circulation - Miscellaneous Sources 1960 - 1994

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Material includes: small booklet, staple-bound, "What has happened to Times circulation during the last five years?" - aimed at advertisers; photo-text essay from Among Ourselves, 11/1951, "Handling largest daily, Sunday circulation in the West"; AO article, 7/1960, "Circulation of Times 'Way Out Front"; various in-house reports on LAT circulation compared to Herald, Examiner, Daily News, Mirror, etc.; 1/1/1910 LAT ad touting circulation achievements 1900-1910, "Largest daily and Sunday newspaper published in California," "Independent, progressive, trustworthy, fearless"; LAT article, 10/30/1984, "Daily News, La Opinion lead area papers in circulation growth..."; (LAT) Circulation History, Daily 1887-1993, Sunday 1895-1993; 4 "Employee Bulletin(s)" 1990-91, all about circulation gains.

Box 601, Folder 7

Departments - Circulation - Incentive programs 1959, 1979

Scope and Contents

Thin, black, 3-hole binder containing a number of responses to requests for description and explanation of circulation sales incentive plans used by other major newspapers around the United States. Responses were received from Dallas Morning News, Gannett Newspapers, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Des Moines Register. Information packet (stapled), 12-pp., "Pick up the world-Travel Adventures." Page 1 reads, in part, "Get ready for the time of your life... by participating in the L.A. Times Circulation Department's 1979 travel incentive program, you could soon be enjoying eight fabulous days in lively Mexico, unspoiled Maui or aboard a (cruise) to the Mexican Riviera. (This is) the finest travel package The Times has ever offered to its home delivery agents and dealers." [The remaining pages describe an ideal vacation for each of the three options.] Binding on 1959 publication removed.

Box 601, Folder 8

Departments - Circulation - Personnel 1978 - 1989

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items: approx. 20 "Management Bulletin(s)," 1983-1989, over the signatures of Don Wright, Tom Johnson, Jim Boswell and Dick Schlosberg, the bulletins deal with promotions, transfers and organizational changes within Circulation Department, usually including some professional information on the individuals involved; 3 memos from Bert Tiffany to Circulation Account Clerks (1978-1979) on jobs being phased out by a computerized system, explaining that LAT would try to relocate personnel and/or offer a bonus to stay until the changeover.

Box 601, Folder 9

Departments - Circulation - Personnel - Bios 1963 - 1964

Scope and Contents

Personnel biographical reports include the following information: department, name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development, date of preparation. Sheets dated 1963 - 1964

Box 602

Reference File - Los Angeles Times

Box 602, Folder 1

Departments - Circulation - Personnel - Bios (1 of 2) 1970 - 1979

Scope and Contents

100 + items. Personnel biographical reports include the following information: department, name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development, date of preparation. Split into two folders

Box 602, Folder 2

Departments - Circulation - Personnel - Bios (2 of 2) 1970 - 1979

Scope and Contents

100 + items. Personnel biographical reports include the following information: department, name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development, date of preparation. Split into two folders

Box 602, Folder 3

Departments - Circulation - Subscriber comments 1919, 1978

Scope and Contents

2 items: letter, 1/13/1919, from Lina Grey (and husband Zane Grey) to Gordon Ray Young, LAT columnist, praising his work for the paper; letter, 10/17/1978, from Cary Grant to Gordon Phillips, LAT Public relations, complaint about condition in which his LAT arrived on his driveway.

Box 602, Folder 4

Departments - Circulation - Subscription rates 1932 - 1995

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items. Material includes: 1-pp. numerical report, "Statement of rates and circulation year by year from 1911 to 1932. All records (pre-1911) destroyed by explosion on Oct. 1, 1910"; various charts of subscription rates throughout 20th century; misc. items related to subscription prices.

Box 602, Folder 5

Departments - Circulation - Subscription receipts 1887 - 1989

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: samples of subscription receipts from two centuries. Samples are dated 1887, 1891, 1893, 1895, 1896, 1898, 1903, 1976, 1981, 1987, 1989. One receipt is initialed by Harry Chandler.

Box 602, Folder 6

Departments - Circulation - Report 1930, 1934

Scope and Contents

3 items: 2-pp. report, "Street Sales and Special Editions," 1/22/1930; 60-pp. report, "The Circulation Department," (date 5/1934 indicated in pencil, p. 1); 1-pp. letter addressed to "Mr. Marx," and signed "RMS," (8/4/1934) offers circulation numbers for ?

Box 602, Folder 7

Departments - Circulation - Berliner research report on circulation 1938

Scope and Contents

"1 item. 48-pp. "A Berliner Research Report on Newspaper Circulation (#4549)," 1938. Prepared by J.J. Berliner & Staff, New York, NY. The report is divided into ten major parts: I. How a wholesaler uses [an] assembly line... II. Mechanization of newspaper mailing III. Ways to meet high costs IV. Newspapers' productive circulation areas to be determined by new trading region analysis V. Street sales can be boosted profitably VI. Mail circulation can be expanded VII. Special offers boost sales VIII. Sunday and Daily newspapers; a study of their differences IX. Community store delivers the papers X. What is circulation expense? "

Box 602, Folder 8

Departments - Classified Advertising 1963 - 1983

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: article copy, Among Ourselves, 11/1963, "Classified computer system gets under way"; tear sheet article, The Reader, 6/4/1982, :Lost--Million Lines from Times Class."; various memos dealing with classifieds; personnel policies; rate guidelines; more material on automation of classified dept., 12/1978; 4-pp. script for slide show--headed "FYI"--on the history of classified advertising in general, and specifically the history of ads in LAT; 12-sheet issue of Ad Notes, published "by and for" the (LAT) Classified Ad staff, 5/19/1983; invitations to - 1974 Classified Christmas & Awards Breakfast, 1977 Classified Christmas & Awards Program, Classified's Christmas and Awards Program

Box 602, Folder 9

Departments - Classified Advertising - Articles 1931 - 1986

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Material includes: articles from Among Ourselves and LAT on history of ads in LAT, ad milestones, automation in advertising,; singles ads in LAT, 1986.

Box 602, Folder 10

Departments - Classified Advertising - Cangelosi, La Rue - File 1967

Scope and Contents

Approx. 45 items. Material includes: 3 copies organizational chart of dept.; list of personnel names, job titles, with phone extension, and extensions of other dept. activities; historical material on LAT; policy statements; stats on telephone sales and total class. ad. linage for 1940s, 1950s, 1960s; standards of excellence; classified copy regulations; etc.

Box 602, Folder 11

Departments - Classified Advertising - Jubilee edition. 1956, 1957

Scope and Contents

4 items. Material includes: 2 photocopies, Page 1 of 1/8/1956 LAT Classified Diamond Jubilee Edition; photocopy of news brief, LAT 1/8/1956, "Largest classified section published in Times today"; photocopy of news brief, LAT 1/1957, "Big Jubilee classified pages today."

Box 602, Folder 12

Departments - Classified Advertising - Orientation/Interview materials circa 1955

Scope and Contents

4 items: 16-pp. report, "What a new salesperson should know about classified advertising: A. History B. Readership C. Ready-made market"; 5-pp. of questions, "Interview for applicant," prepared by KLEIN INSTITUTE FOR APTITUDE TESTING (2 copies); 7-pp. script, "Keeping abreast of The Times....for sales success".

Box 602, Folder 13

Departments - Classified Advertising - Personnel 1983 - 1989

Scope and Contents

9 items. Material includes: 9 "Management Bulletin(s)." The bulletins give the names of personnel promoted or transferred, and in some cases, professional bio material on them.

Box 603

Reference File - Los Angeles Times

Box 603, Folder 1

Departments - Classified Advertising - Personnel - Bios 1958 - 1972

Scope and Contents

Approx. 100 items. Personnel biographical forms including name, address, marital status, no. of children, hobbies, education, military service, present job, Times-Mirror Co. employment record, previous employment. Includes tabs reading: Auto, HW; Real Estate; Mdse; Secty & Clks.; Vol.

Box 603, Folder 2

Departments - Classified Advertising - Personnel - Bios 1958 - 1972

Scope and Contents

Approx. 90 items. Personnel biographical forms including name, address, marital status, no. of children, hobbies, education, military service, present job, Times-Mirror Co. employment record, previous employment. Includes tabs reading: Front counter, National, San Fernando, Outside Sales Serv. Center,Outside Secty., Westside.

Box 603, Folder 3

Departments - Classified Advertising - Personnel - Bios 1958 - 1972

Scope and Contents

Approx. 95 items. Personnel biographical forms including name, address, marital status, no. of children, hobbies, education, military service, present job, Times-Mirror Co. employment record, previous employment. Includes tabs reading: Central, Auto. Executives, PBX, Admin. Office, Copy Desk, San Gabriel, Sub. Secty's, Orange County.

Box 603, Folder 4

Departments - Classified Advertising - Personnel - Bios 1958 - 1972

Scope and Contents

Approx. 95 items. Personnel bio forms including name, address, marital status, no. of children, hobbies, education, military service, present job, Times-Mirror Co. employment record, previous employment. Includes tabs reading: Sub. Secty's, San Gabriel, Orange County.

Box 603, Folder 5

Departments - Classified Advertising - Personnel - Bios 1971 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 100 items. 1-pp. personnel bios, include name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development and date of preparation (of bio). Some duplicates included.

Box 604

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 604, Folder 1

Departments - Classified Advertising - Promotion samples 1938 - 1987

Scope and Contents

9 items. Material includes: advertisement/application form for accident insurance "for Los Angeles Times readers..." (1987); flyer with info. on "new extended Times Classified hours" (1987); tear sheet of ad, "We've put on a new face!" (1983); LAT classified's promo, "Perhaps Dick Tracy can solve...the mystery of the missing circulation." (ca. 1949); tear sheet of LAT ad, "the classified advertising picture for 10 months of 1938..."; booklet, "Your guide to Los Angeles Area streets and recreation" (1966); 2 other tear sheets of ads, 1966-1969; ad/poster, "Jubilee 1984 (1/1/1984) - unfolds to approx. 2' x 3';

Box 604, Folder 2

Departments - Classified Advertising - Real Estate contest 1966

Scope and Contents

4 items. 4 examples of "Real Estate Contest Special" (mock-up oversized LAT Pg. 1). Material includes: "Real estate drive begins" (5/6/1966); 2 copies, "Real estate drive generates interest" (5/13/1966); "Campaign covers most of state" (5/27/1966).

Box 604, Folder 3

Departments - Classified Advertising - Receipts/Order Forms 1917 - 1980

Scope and Contents

3 plastic sleeves, 4 items. Material includes: example of "Adv. Form 1," dated 8/31/1917; tear sheet of ad for "A 5-way service for placing classified ads" (ca. 1932); computer data card as invoice (1980?); LAT memo from Judy Anderson to Lois Markwith, 10/27/1980.

Box 604, Folder 4

Departments - Classified Advertising - Report to advertisers 1966

Scope and Contents

1 item. 16-pp. booklet, "Times Classified - 1966 Report to Advertisers." Features line graphs, bar graphs, lists and text explaining the advantages of advertising in LAT.

Box 604, Folder 5

Departments - Classified Advertising - Sales Training circa 1955, 1987

Scope and Contents

3 items, each stapled. Material includes: 7-pp. essay headed "Frank Lester," with "Classified Advertising, ca. 1950s" penciled in; 7-pp. slide show script, headed "Keeping abreast of The Times.... for sales success"; 13-pp. essay, "Hiring and Training," by Mildred Renstrom, "rec'd from John Archer, Class. Adv. Telephone Sales" penciled in" - date penciled in looks like "3/23/'87," but the sheaf looks older.

Box 604, Folder 6

Departments - Classified Advertising - Telephone sales 1959

Scope and Contents

2 items. 2 copies of 15-pp. report, "Telephone sales - Los Angeles Times Classified Advertising Department," plus example of organizational chart for Class. Adv. Dept., and forms titled "telephone sales applicant appraisal sheet," "personal counseling chart," "individual sales performance record," "individual sales report," etc.

Box 604, Folder 7

Departments - Classified Advertising - Writing contest 1942

Scope and Contents

3 items. Three oversized sheets showing the entries that won 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Prizes and Honorable Mention in "Times Classified Dept. Ad-writing Contest, 6/1942.

Box 604, Folder 8

Departments - Communications 1994

Scope and Contents

2 items: 22-pp. booklet, "How to get your press release into the right hands at the Los Angeles Times"; memo from Michele Biagioni to Diane Abney, 6/7/1994, related to set-up plan for a "Meet the Critic" program featuring Kenneth Turan on 6/21/1994.

Box 604, Folder 9

Departments - Creative Services 1990, 1993

Scope and Contents

2 items: Management Bulletin, 4/17/1990, from Jim Boswell to Management Personnel, on "completion of the restructuring of the Creative Services Department" (promotions, etc.); 6-pp. tear sheet from Publish magazine, 5/1993, "Changing with The Times," by Gene Gable, on LAT Creative Services Dept.

Box 604, Folder 10

Departments - Development 1985, 1987

Scope and Contents

2 items: Management Bulletin, 12/20/1985, from Don Wright to "Management Personnel," related to promotion of Willard Colston to new position of Director of Development for LAT; order form, 2/1987, headed "Add to your collection of Los Angeles Times Books."

Box 604, Folder 11

Departments - Display Advertising 1928 - 1989

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items. Materials include: articles from Among Ourselves; 4/28/1989 Management Bulletin on reorganization of Display Advertising; undated "Review of the (LAT) Selective Saturation Program"; (LAT) Display Advertising Dept. - "Functional" Organization Chart - 1958"; "Orange County 10 Year Forecast, 1970-1980"; LAT Display Ad Depth Chart, 2 cps. (1979); LAT Retail Display Rates...1973-1982; reports on ad linage; article, Los Angeles magazine, 3/1977, "Can the 'Times' ad censors cope with the new morality?"; 46-pp. "Guide to the (LAT) Display Advertising Department [w/ employee photos]." 3/22/1985; February 1989 edition of "Display Advertising Digest;" etc.

Box 604, Folder 12

Departments - Display Advertising - Brainstorming Report 1974

Scope and Contents

3 items, stapled in one stack. Material includes: 35-pp. report titled, "Display Department Brainstorming," addressing questions such as "Where is The Times now? - What trends do you see? - What is our mission?"; two long memos from Jim Hunkins to Phil Magwood (all 1974).

Box 604, Folder 13

Departments - Display Advertising - Personnel 1983 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items: Management Bulletins on promotions, transfers, organizational changes and announcements within Display Advertising.

Box 604, Folder 14

Departments - Display Advertising - Personnel - Bios 1975 - 1978

Scope and Contents

Approx. 75 items. Material includes: personnel biographies for display advertising employees, giving name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development, date of bio preparation.

Box 604, Folder 15

Departments - Display Advertising - Policy 1977 - 1994

Scope and Contents

5 items. Material includes: three articles from LAT [one with Otis Chandler byline] tracing, over approx. 6 months, LAT rejection of ads for porno films, a lawsuit by representatives of the "adult" film industry, and a judge's dismissal of the suit (1977-1978); transcript of 3/30/1978 news report on KHJ-tv on the judge's ruling; article, 9/5/1994, "L.A. Times gives cold shoulder to 'adult cabaret' category advertising."

Box 604, Folder 16

Departments - Display Advertising - Promotion 1981 - 1988

Scope and Contents

6 items. Materials include: 20-pp. promotional booklet on LAT Home Magazine (1982); promo flyer (1984) for Home magazine reprints on '84 Olympics; 5 sheets (stapled) with financial figures - "Home Magazine offers national advertisers a better advertising value than California Magazine"; promotional packet in folder, "International Opportunities in the Los Angeles Times" (1984); info packet in folder, "(LAT) Television Times," 1981; ad for "Nuestro Tiempo" clipped from 9/12/1988 LAT.

Box 604, Folder 17

Departments - Display Advertising - Sales training circa 1955

Scope and Contents

4 items. Material includes 2 to 10 page transcripts and reports. Headings are: "Handling objections"; [untitled] "Now that we have considered..."; "Creative selling clinic"; "Addendum."

Box 604, Folder 18

Departments - Display Advertising - Samples 1881 - 1900

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items. photocopied ads from LAT a wide variety of goods and services for the period 1881-1900.

Box 605

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 605, Folder 1

Departments - Display Advertising - Samples 1900 - 1949

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items. Photocopied ads from LAT featuring a wide variety of rentals, goods and services for the period 1900-1949.

Box 605, Folder 2

Departments - Display Advertising - Samples 1950 - 1958

Scope and Contents

Approx. 45 items. Photocopied ads from LAT a wide variety of goods and services for the period 1950 - 1958.

Box 605, Folder 3

Departments - Editorial - Automation circa 1982

Scope and Contents

1 item: 13-pp. monograph, "The newsroom before and after computers -- the Locke-NES Monster," by Wilson R. Locke, Times Systems Editor.

Box 605, Folder 4

Departments - Editorial - Books by Staff Writers 1989

Scope and Contents

1 item: tear sheet from Library Journal, 5/1/1989, brief review of Selling Out: How we are letting Japan buy our land, our industries, our financial institutions, and our future, by Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins. (Frantz was an LAT staffer)

Box 605, Folder 5

Departments - Editorial - Book Review Section 1970 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: brief, Editor & Publisher, 6/6/1970, "L.A. Times adds tab devoted to books"; form letter from Digby Diehl, 3/1977, with 5-pp. "Reviewer's Guide" for submissions to LAT Book Review;LAT article,12/11/1985, by David Shaw, "Reviewing Books-it's haphazard" (2 other articles in Shaw series on book review sections, one on NYT, the other on Wash. Post; sampling of Pg. 1 of LAT Book Review; related articles.

Box 605, Folder 6

Departments - Editorial - Business Section 1961

Scope and Contents

2 items: tear sheet of Nick B. Williams column, 9/17/1961, "Watch our finance section grow!"; copy of brief article explaining "Expanded financial, business coverage in today's Times," no byline, no date. Includes Predecessor Sections.

Box 605, Folder 7

Departments - Editorial - Calendar Section 1960 - 1994

Scope and Contents

5 items. Materials include: LAT memo (8/22/1960) from Edw. Reap, Promotion, to James Toland, Sunday Editorial, on the soon to be published "first issue of the new entertainment tabloid CALENDAR..."; copy of article from Among Ourselves, 10/1966, "Calendar has new look, new columnist"; tear sheet of "Calendar - Letters" for 6/28/1987, featuring a selection of letters critical of the "Calendar" section; 3-pp. report headed "Sunday Calendar Redesign," 7/1994; article copied from Lifestyle Media-Relations Reporter, 9/5/1994, "Los Angeles Times Calendar Eds: Home Entertainment, Family Fun," mentions staffers Sherry Stern, Susan Freudenheim, Anne Hurley and John Lindsay.

Box 605, Folder 8

Departments - Editorial - Carrier Pigeon Service 1981 - 1985

Scope and Contents

4 items. Materials include: article copied from Among Ourselves, 2/1981, "Wireless gave news to Catalina"; photographic image (on heavy paper) and photocopy of an illustration showing a horse-drawn wagon bearing the logo, "The Times Catalina Island Service," (from AO, no date seen); pp. 18-39 copied from booklet "Winged Mail: from Avalon to Bunker Hill [1894-1898]," by Anna Marie Hager, publ. by Dawson's Book Shop, 1985.

Box 605, Folder 9

Departments - Editorial - City Desk undated

Scope and Contents

1 item: 3-pp. letter from Chick Galloway to Bill Thomas, later shared with "Claude." The subject is the screening of calls to the City Desk. Galloway writes that it was true that the screener "should be an amateur psychologist, an information bureau, and possess the skin of an alligator." The letter also details a number of interesting stories related to screening calls from the public at the news desk of a major newspaper. Galloway considered this task to be something of an art form.

Box 605, Folder 10

Departments - Editorial - Color Photographs 1954 - 1955

Scope and Contents

Approx. 40 items. Color photographs run in LAT 1954 - 1955 -- sports action, TV stars, stills from motion pictures.

Box 605, Folder 11

Departments - Editorial - Columns - Features 1924 - 1989

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items. Materials include: copy of LAT article (7/20/1941), "'Front door ballot box' starts in Times next Sunday," asking for public opinion on issues, plus 6 sheets of "Forum" questions with the dates they ran in LAT; copies of 5 "Dear Abby" columns, or LAT articles mentioning "Dear Abby" (1962); LAT article copy, 1/17/1926, "Politeness reporter is arrested four times...", LAT staffer say that, generally, LA traffic officers are more polite than those in Chicago and elsewhere; tear sheet, LAT 9/7/1989, "Genetic maps leading us into unknown..."; copy of LAT crossword puzzle, 11/27/1924.

Box 605, Folder 12

Departments - Editorial - Columnists 1961, 1981, 1988

Scope and Contents

4 items. Material includes: tear sheet, a brief from ADWEEK/West, 11/16/1981, on LAT joining with CompuServe in a "test program in which highlights (from LAT) are programmed for access by home computer users" (program partner was CompuServe); 1-pp. (undated), headed "Famous columnists," lists Charles Lummis, Harry Carr, Bill Henry, Ed Ainsworth and Kyle Palmer; Front page announcement, 10/29/1961, "* noted columnists join Sunday Times feature parade"; copy of The Wine Investor, 1/18/1988, article, "L.A. Times labors mightily and produces a...Danberger?" (article is very critical of LAT and their selection of new wine columnist, Dan Berger.

Box 605, Folder 13

Departments - Editorial - Comics 1971 - 1975

Scope and Contents

8 items: tear sheets of comic strips through the years ; letters and articles about the history and social ramifications of comic strips ; memos and press releases about LAT policies relating to comic strips. Specific strips discussed in detail include "Doonesbury" and "Little Orphan Annie." This is a 9/19/1971 column by Nick B. Williams headed "The Editor who dropped Little Orphan Annie."

Box 605, Folder 14

Departments - Editorial - Computer Systems 1995

Scope and Contents

1 item: article copy from Editor & Publisher, 6/10/1995, "L.A. Times replaces Coyotes with Decade," by Roger S. Peterson.

Box 605, Folder 15

Departments - Editorial - Editorial Awards 1966 - 1995

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items. Materials include: 8 programs from LAT Editorial Awards Banquet, 2 cps. of 18th Annual (1978), 3 cps. of 20th Annual (1980), 1 cp. 21st Annual (1981), 1 cp. of 25th Annual (1985), 1 cp. 33rd Annual (1993); list of 1982 Winners; 2 cps. of "Transcript of the Twenty-Seventh Annual (LAT) Editorial Awards"; 5-pp. set of material headed, "Editorial Contests - April - June 1990"; transcripts of the 30th and 33rd Annual Editorial Awards"; Among Ourselves articles, 2/1966 and 4/1989, both on Editorial Awards of those years.

Box 605, Folder 16

Departments - Editorial - Editorial Content 1973

Scope and Contents

1 item. 3-pp. transcript of Radio TV Reports, Inc., from a KNBC-tv "Sunday" (news) program of 7/8/1973. Kelly Lange and Tom Snyder interview of Robert Thorn, an official of the Atomic Energy Commission, dealing in part with AEC defense against allegations made in LAT article by Lee Dye.

Box 605, Folder 17

Departments - Editorial - Editorial Coverage - Ethnic Minorities 1990, 1992

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. Material includes: 4 clear plastic sleeves containing tear sheets of a series of articles by David Shaw on the coverage of ethnic minorities by newspapers in general, and LAT specifically (12/1990); one tear sheet, 5/26/1992), "Times coverage of LAPD, Minority areas," by David Shaw.

Box 605, Folder 18

Departments - Editorial - Editorial Coverage - Movies 1928 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items. Material includes: copies of articles from Among Ourselves (various years) relating to motion picture news; excerpts from books, Thinking Big and Hedda and Loulla; 2 memos from 1990 (to Ron Iori) with LAT Calendar section history info.; etc.

Box 605, Folder 19

Departments - Editorial - Editorial Development Department 1993

Scope and Contents

1item: 3-pp. "Los Angeles Times Technology Fair" memo (6/24/1993), addressed to "All hands." Two forms are attached to the memo - "Editorial Development Volunteer" and "Proposal for Editorial Development Project."

Box 605, Folder 20

Departments - Editorial - "Editorial Excellence" 1969

Scope and Contents

1 item: approx. 130-pp. transcript (from Tapes I, II and III), "Los Angeles Times Executive Conference - Editorial Excellence (5/17/1969)." The Conference seminar was conducted at Times Mirror Square. The transcript was labeled "Confidential." A list appears on the first page with names of the top ranking editors--Nick B. Williams, Frank Haven, James Bassett, James Bellows, William F. Thomas, etc.--and executives--Otis Chandler, Robert Flannes, Robert D. Nelson, etc.-- who participated.

Box 606

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 606, Folder 1

Departments - Editorial - Editorial policy, 1881 - 1959 1914 - 1976

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items. Material includes: tear sheet, 3/9/1937, 3 photos/captions allegedly showing that (L.A.) Examiner retouched and used LAT photo of wounded DA Fitts, "Here is a study of pictorial journalism"; stack of approx. 15 typed, photocopied sheets describing LAT's coverage of nation and world in editorials (1939-40); 13-pp. report, typed on yellow paper, gives headlines and summary of editorials, headed "Pre-WW2 (Asia, Europe) 1926-38 - HC-NC (& LEAGUE failures)"; single sheet, typed, "The Times' Creed," calls for "the loyalty of every Phalanx member [all staffers]"; copy of brief editorial, 6/23/1932, headline, "Things aren't so bad when...", opening with "Daily we see or hear about some kindly deed"; clips of editorials related to LAT policy toward Spanish-speaking Angelenos, tobacco--how harmful?, increase in crime, Gen. Otis' "carefully-wrought instructions" to "Mr. and Mrs. Harry Chandler" about how to conduct LAT operation "after his demise" (1917); a 1929 thesis presented at Claremont Colleges, "Los Angeles Times and Public Opinion," which points up the ultra-conservative viewpoint of LAT editorial policy; 3/24/1976 info sheet [LAT Editorial Policy] on LAT daily column, "Information," which appeared in the 1910s, and which was a mouthpiece for the anti-union stance of the paper; 28-pp. (yellow sheets) headed, "Times & opposition papers (SG chronology)," beginning in 1881, running to 1914; plastic bag containing several copies of editorials, 1919-1934, on the subjects "hard liquor advertising," the Lindbergh kidnapping," "the press and the public," and "yellow journalism."

Box 606, Folder 2

Departments - Editorial - Editorial policy, 1960 - 1991 1960 - 1991

Scope and Contents

Approx. 50 items. Material includes: packet of correspondence (stapled), 1966, between Philip Corwin of Barron's Weekly, and Otis Chandler, Nick Williams, Robert Nelson and others at LAT, related to Corwin's research for a story on the newspaper industry; article, The Certified News, 12/1966, article, The Review (of So. Cal. Journalism), "One of the world's great {good} newspapers"; 6-pp. report (several versions), "Basic Times Editorial Page Policies," 1964 - edited by Nick Williams; summary of 1962 series growing out of California's achieving No. 1 ranking in population among the 50 states--stories were written on religion, real estate, government, social welfare, labor, transportation, agriculture, sports, etc.; 2 cps. of 1961 booklet containing two essays, "A Statement of Principle," by Norman Chandler, and "An Octogenarian and Still More Growth Ahead"; various LAT articles dealing with press freedom, etc.; multi-page info. packet headed "Jan. 1991 - re: Persian Gulf War"; "OC's (Otis Chandler) comments - Oct. 12, 1961," specifying "Those against us..." and "Things in our favor..."; 8/9/1982, "On Editorial Policy," by Tom Johnson; LAT tear sheet, 8/2/1976, "The ups and downs of a bail bondsman," by Al Martinez, which has had all the quoted profanity/obscenity underlined (but w/o comment); articles, LAT and others, on newspaper editorial policy; columns by Nick B. Williams, 9/26/1971, "They don't horsewhip editors, do they?" (plus other columns) and James Bassett (no date), "The battle of the analysts"; LAT article on staffer jailed briefly for refusal to answer a question in court, (1987); tear sheet from The Review, 12/1972, "It can happen here; ask Bill Farr"; duplicate material.

Box 606, Folder 3

Departments - Editorial - Editors 1971 - 1987

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. Material includes: various chronological listings of LAT Editors; tear sheet of Among Ourselves, 6/1974, with photo essay, "The Senior Editors"; "Newspeak" column from L.A. Weekly (sarcastic coverage of other L.A. publications), 8/7-13/1987; 2-pp. (yellow) sheets with info on editor chrono., plus additional info on Harry Andrews, Leroy Mosher and Charles Lummis; dupes of some of above items; article, Time (mag), 6/28/1971, "Chandler's Change of Heart," on last minute switch by Otis Chandler in placing William F. Thomas into top Editor position instead of an earlier choice, Robert J. Donovan; article, Newsweek, 9/6/1971 (same topic as Time article; LAT article, undated, "Cotliar to replace Haven as Times Managing Editor."

Box 606, Folder 4

Departments - Editorial - Educational Services 1961, 1968, 1975

Scope and Contents

3 items: article copy, Among Ourselves, 4/1961, "Times Student Outlook presents weekly reports on current events"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 9/1968, "(Dan) Moore named special assistant to (Otis) Chandler" - Moore had been director of educational services at LAT from 1961 until 1968; LAT clipping, 7/19/1975, "Daniel Moore, authority on education, dies at 51.".

Box 606, Folder 5

Departments - Editorial - Extra Editions 1942 - 1986

Scope and Contents

2 items: 2-pp. list of "Los Angeles Times Extra Editions" (Note included - "This is not necessarily a complete list), 2/1884 - 1/1986, with 31 "Extra" (banner) headlines over a period of 102 years, for example, December 8, 1941, "IT'S WAR!"; graphic example (2 cps), "L.A. AREA RAIDED!," 2/25/1942 - Jap Planes Peril Santa Monica, Seal Beach..."

Box 606, Folder 6

Departments - Editorial - Family Section 1957

Scope and Contents

2 items: copy of Page 1, 9/15/1957, with announcement at top, "New Family Section to make debut in Times next Sunday"; copy of "Younger Set" page, from Pt. 1 of LAT, 9/21/1957, featuring articles of interest to teens, etc.

Box 606, Folder 7

Departments - Editorial - Fashion Section 1978

Scope and Contents

1 item: copy of brief, Among Ourselves, 2/1978, "Fashion 78 brings a new dimension to Friday's Times."

Box 606, Folder 8

Departments - Editorial - Food Section 1931, 1962, 1963

Scope and Contents

6 items. Material includes: note on blue card, "Cookbooks in file cabinet in reception room"; Pg. 1 of Food Section, 8/29/1963, lead story headline, "Labor Day work savers"; 2-pp. news release, "Times introduces redesigned food section"; copy, Among Ourselves, 10/1931, of (first page only) article, "New demonstration kitchen for cooking class," note attached, "see...AO for rest of article"; Pg. 1, LAT Food Section, 4/5/1962, copies, Pg. 1, Pt. 1 announcement and Pg. 1 of "FOOO for the Family" section, 4/5/1962.

Box 606, Folder 9

Departments - Editorial - History 1928 - 1976

Scope and Contents

7 items: several Among Ourselves "hark back" articles ; three chronologies, one 1959 - 1962, one 1960 - 1966, another 1960 to 1974, highlighting LAT history.

Box 606, Folder 10

Departments - Editorial - Home Magazine 1959 - 1961

Scope and Contents

2 items: 21-pp. report on "1959 Home Magazine Survey," in blue spiral-bound folder ; article copy, 1/29/1961, "The culmination of a year's work," by Nick B. Williams, which describes the process of preparing an issue of Home magazine.

Box 606, Folder 11

Departments - Editorial - Editorial Library 1954 - 1992

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items. Materials include: article copy, Among Ourselves, 4/1960, "Times, Mirror news libraries are key information centers"; 1-pp., copied from a history of LAT, the writer seems to be Harrison Gray Otis, because, in referring to the aftermath of the 1910 explosion and fire at LAT, the text reads, "I have been gradually collecting books...for a reference library, and...am keeping them at 'The Bivouac' [Otis's home on Wilshire Blvd.], (rather than) the temporary editorial rooms of The Times."; 3-pp. memo, 2/23/1954, "Defendant's pre-trial memorandum - The Times-Mirror Co. vs. U.S. of America"; 46-pp. spiral-bound report, "Editorial Library - User Survey," by Cecily J. Surace, 11/1980; 19-pp. report by graduate students in library / information science (Livia Di Mare/Glenn Johnson-Grau) on the Edit. Lib., 1992, recounting the history, services, resources, and research practices, and describing departments within the library; articles on the library from AO, 1927, 1976; info on LAT database's availability on Nexis; 11-pp. booklet, 12/1982, "Guide to the (LAT) Editorial Library"; article copy, CD-ROM Professional (mag), "Searching Los Angeles Times DIALOG OnDisc: The Times Editorial Library Experience," by Dorothy Ingebretsen and Steven Tice; plus assorted brief reports on aspects of the library.

Box 606, Folder 12

Departments - Editorial - Editorial Library - Guide to Databases 1987 - 1992

Scope and Contents

3 items: 91-pp. (unbound) Guide to databases in the Los Angeles Times Editorial Library, 9/1987, Revision #6; info sheet, 5/1990, 87 - 1992"Dialog OnDisc - Los Angeles Times"; 1 copy, 2/1992, "Library Update" newsletter, "Times Database will soon move in-house."

Box 606, Folder 13

Departments - Editorial - Editorial Library - Method used for clippings 1949

Scope and Contents

Several long sheets of heavy paper are folded into the folder. They are covered with articles clipped from LAT, mostly in 1949. These clips are a sample of clippings on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, saved here to provide a sample of how clippings were stored. Subject terms are underlined in red, then the clips were glued onto the sheet. Clips could also be folded and inserted in small envelopes specifically for that purpose, then filed alphabetically.

Box 606, Folder 14

Departments - Editorial - Editorial Library - Negative index 1940 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 sheets. Photocopies of index cards with info on LAT photographic negative collection - subject name, date of photograph, serial number for locating negatives in collection, and phrase describing the photograph. Material from 1940s, 1950s, etc. Index is incomplete.

Box 607

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 607, Folder 1

Departments - Editorial - Editorial Library - Newsletters 1979 - 1993

Scope and Contents

Approx. 70 items: various versions, dated between 1979 and 1993, of a newsletter put out by the Editorial Library. It was headed with several different names over the years, including Information Notes, Editorial Library Information Notes, Editorial Library - New Library Materials, Flash - from Editorial Library, and New Resources - Los Angeles Times Editorial Library. The last two included bibliographic cites for newly acquired books and other materials.

Box 607, Folder 2

Departments - Editorial - Lifestyle Section 1900 - 1994

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items. Materials include: copied examples of LAT "Society" page, 1910 - 1940 (at least one prior to 1900); 1-pp. chronology which opens, "Here's a history of The Times "features" sections..."; clip, Among Ourselves, 10/1976, YOU debuts in The Times; 6-pp. typed, [by Nick B. Williams? - 1961] analysis of progress of "Family" section; 3-pp. memo, Dick Dunkel to Nick Williams, 10/13/1961, subject "Family Section Fashions; clip from Los Angeles magazine, ?/1966, "The new girls of Section IV," on Maggie Bellows and Joyce Haber taking on re-vamp of 'Section IV'"; copy of brief, 6/4/1994, Editor & Publisher, "(LAT) improves its lifestyle section"; analysis of LAT "women's pages" over the decades from various sources, including "25 Years of women's pages in L.A.," by academic Dorothy Stotsenberg (UCLA); other related memos.

Box 607, Folder 3

Departments - Editorial - Los Angeles Times Magazine 1985 - 1995

Scope and Contents

4 items: article copy, Buzz, 3/1995, "Crossing the Line," criticizes LAT ; article copy, Buzz, 4/1995, "Lindsay hop," critical specifically of LAT Magazine Editorial Director John Lindsay (Note: one of the major reasons for the existence of Buzz seemed to be to pester LAT) ; brief article copy, Los Angeles (mag), 1/1987, "16 Editors in search of a Magazine" ; article copy, Writer's Digest, (ca. 1985), "Breaking new ground" (on LAT Mag).

Box 607, Folder 4

Departments - Editorial - METPRO/Minority Training Program 1984 - 1994

Scope and Contents

9 items: Materials include: booklets and information sheets related to Minority Editorial Training Program - METPRO / Reporting, METPRO / Editing, 1984-1994; LAT News Release - "Special Section Profiles 12 Black Journalists," 2/23/1990; 2 articles from Among Ourselves, "(19)94 METPRO class joins The Times" (1984), "Ron Harris to direct minority program," (1994); white envelope containing 2 photos of METPRO "Class of '92."

Box 607, Folder 5

Departments - Editorial - Mirror Newsletter 1994 - 1995

Scope and Contents

6 items: six examples of LAT Hiring & Development Newsletter, "Mirror." Headlines/subjects: 8/1994, "The Voices of Unity '94," on diversity in the newsroom and coverage of people of color; 11/1994, "A challenge for news editors," pagination; 1/1995, "A Team Effort," on coverage of the Orange County fiscal crisis; 3/1995, "Foreign put to test by quake," on earthquake in Japan; 4/1995, "The MetPro Experience; 5/1995, "Loosening Lips - the art of the interview."

Box 607, Folder 6

Departments - Editorial - Murchison Letters 1888, 1889, 1945, 1965

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items. Material includes: reproductions of letters exchanged between Charles Murchison, ex-British citizen, (in reality, George Osgoodby, a Calif. Republican) and Lionel Sackville-West, British Minister to the U.S., who was urged to state a preference for one U.S. Presidential candidate over another, resulting in a voter reaction that was credited with the defeat of Grover Cleveland in a re-election bid; tear sheet (no date) of article from the Historical Society of Southern California, "The Murchison Letter Incident"; related articles from LAT, 1888; 10/22/1956, article from LAT, "Bulganin action recalls historic letter of..."

Box 607, Folder 7

Departments - Editorial - News Bureaus - Domestic 1960 - 1969, 1980

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: LAT clip, 2/10/1963, "Times opening Wall St. Bureau, broadens financial news coverage"; handwritten list - bureau locations, start dates, staffers; articles>, Among Ourselves, 11/1928, "Our Washington Bureau"; AO, 10/1965, "Zeman heads Times bureau in Sacramento"; AO, 4/1966, "Times bureau in New York opens May 1"; Editor & Publisher, 8/16/1980, "New bureau offices visited by Carter"; tear sheet & copy, Women's Wear Daily, 8/4/1980, "Eye" (name dropping column) - described cocktail party to open DC bureau; article, Wash. Post, 8/1/1980, "The best of Times, all night long"; etc.

Box 607, Folder 8

Departments - Editorial - News Bureaus - Foreign 1960, 1993

Scope and Contents

2 items: 1-pp. list, "Opened in 1960," followed by eighteen city names - "Bangkok...Beirut...", etc.; 1-pp. list, "Los Angeles Times Bureaus" ("as of Sept. 1993" added later) - California, Domestic and Foreign bureaus are given, and "Total - 41...Domestic 14...Foreign 27."

Box 607, Folder 9

Departments - Editorial - News Bureaus - Washington D.C. 1969 - 1995

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items. Material includes: 28-pp. transcript, dated 2/17/1981, of remarks by Robert M. Garrick, to a breakfast meeting with LAT Wash. Bureau; LAT article by Jack Nelson, 2/18/1981, "High Reagan aide (Garrick) backs off issuing of leases to drill for oil in protected regions off California coast"; 2 cps., list, dated 7/6/1977, but titled "1972 Washington Bureau"; article, 3/15/1969, "Kraslow-Loory peace mission rates prize"; clippings, various publications, on staff cuts initiated by Mark Willes, 1995; etc.

Box 607, Folder 10

Departments - Editorial - News linage 1954 - 1984

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items. Material includes: single-page reports from Media Records, each year 1954 - 1967, headed "Ten Leading Newspapers in Lines of News" (or a variation of that); single-page report, "Top Ten Newspapers in News Linage - 1978"; list for 1968; 6-pp. report, "Top Ten Newspapers Linage Comparison (Full Run and Part-Run Combined) January - June 1984."

Box 607, Folder 11

Departments - Editorial - Nuestro Tiempo 1989

Scope and Contents

2 items: News Release, 2/9/1989, "Times begins publishing monthly bilingual news section"; complete LAT section, "Nuestro Tiempo," for 2/9/1989.

Box 607, Folder 12

Departments - Editorial - Opinion Section 1949, 1972-1974, 1988 - 1990, 1994

Scope and Contents

2 items: reproduction of Opinion Page One for 1/31/1988, with headline "GLASNOST - Truth helps, truth hurts"; article, Editor & Publisher, 5/21/1994, "Expression by Advertisement," explaining a criticism State Sen. Tom Hayden had regarding LAT; various issues of Among Ourselves from 1949, 1974, etc., showcasing articles on the philosophy and operation of LAT Editorial Pages. Oversize pencil and pen drawing of Editorial page eagle logo remove to Reference File - Oversize box.

Box 607, Folder 13

Departments - Editorial - P.M. final edition 1989, 1991

Scope and Contents

4 items. Materials include: news release, 2/13/1989, "Times begins publication of new P.M. Final Edition"; article, Among Ourselves, 3/1989, "P.M. Final makes debut - real estate remodeled; 1 complete copy of P.M. Final, 2/13/1989; Management Bulletin, 2/6/1991, headed, "The Times is discontinuing its afternoon edition, the P.M. Final."

Box 607, Folder 14

Departments - Editorial - Pages 1989

Scope and Contents

1 item: tear sheet of 3/29/1989 Editorial Page complete with the logo, the Masthead, "Letters to The Times" and the day's editorials.

Box 607, Folder 15

Departments - Editorial - Personnel 1944, 1959, 1971 - 1995

Scope and Contents

Materials include: 6-pp., in list form, headed "Staff - 1944," giving section names, personnel names and area of responsibility/job name; memo, 3/30/1959, from Nick Williams, being a general announcement of Taylor Trumbo's promotion to Managing Editor, and Chester Hale's promotion to City Editor; typed note--unsigned and unadressed--gives "ethnic breakdown of the editorial staffers," 5/12/1977. Management Bulletins, News Releases dated between 1983 and 1990; two copies of a 1995 LAT clip headlined "Clayton, Del Olmo, Plate get new Times assignments." (Janet Clayton, Frank Del Olmo, Thomas Plate); cover letter from "No Greater Love," an organization "providing...care for children of Americans who have given their lives in service to our country or in the pursuit of peace." The bulletins are announcements of promotions, appointments and organizational changes.

Box 608

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 608, Folder 1

Departments - Editorial - Personnel Bios 1973 - 1978

Scope and Contents

Approx. 85 items. Personnel biographical forms providing name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development (workshops, seminars, etc), date of preparation. Some dupes included.

Box 608, Folder 2

Departments - Editorial - Photography 1892, 1964, 1980, 1988

Scope and Contents

5 items. Materials include: LAT Part III, 10/21/1892, several pp. copied to show layout of text headlined "The Great Fair -- World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, October, 1892 - Views of the Principal Buildings," also the photos, which were the first halftone engravings {photos} ever in LAT; letter from Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, to a Colonel Esau, of US Army War College, dated 1/16/1980, explaining the circumstances surrounding the earliest photographs to appear in LAT; photo from Among Ourselves, 6/1964, caption, "Famous Photo - Times photog Bill Murphy shows (his 1958 photo) of the late President Kennedy" - photo selected to be on a commemorative stamp of JFK; Summer 1988 issue of Panorama (LAT retiree newsletter), lead story, "Veteran Photographer (Murphy) Remembers 'Working the Street'."

Box 608, Folder 3

Departments - Editorial - Political cartoons 1911

Scope and Contents

1 item: cartoon, probably from 1911, captioned, "Oh well, there'll be enough votes to elect Alexander without mine." Presumably deals with the mayoral election pitting Socialist Job Harriman against LAT-backed George Alexander.

Box 608, Folder 4

Departments - Editorial - Political conventions 1988

Scope and Contents

2 items: 17-pp. booklet, "Democratic Convention Guide - Election '88" (LAT); 17-pp. booklet, "Republican Convention Guide - Election '88" (LAT).

Box 608, Folder 5

Departments - Editorial - Readers Service Department 1961

Scope and Contents

1 item: announcement, 6/15/1961, begins, "Effective Monday, June 19, the Readers Service department will be discontinued..."

Box 608, Folder 6

Departments - Editorial - Real Estate Section 1901, 1975, 1989, 1994

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. Materials include: LAT clip, 9/10/1989, to give example of "Home Price Guide" feature; LAT clip, 2/26/1989, "Expanded section, new editor (Dick Barnes) to debut"; packet (clipped) of several items related to the "doodles" President Franklin Roosevelt did during his presidency that decades later were used as a "guide" to the design of a Naval Medical Center in Maryland (includes 4 glossy photos of Roosevelt), received from Dick Turpin of Real Estate Section in 1975; several LAT articles on re-vamp of Real Estate section, 1989-1990; 10-pp. booklet, (LAT 23rd) Annual Survey of Residential Builders in Southern California (1994). copy of 1st Real Estate Section (Pt. 2, Pg. 1), 6/23/1901, "House and Lot - The Times Weekly Review of Real Estate and Building."

Box 608, Folder 7

Departments - Editorial - Reports 1949 - 1965

Scope and Contents

Yearly review and reports on the editorial department dated 1949 - 1959, 1965; Bulletin from Richard G. Adams calling for annual reports; Report on news desk policies from 1962.

Box 608, Folder 8

Departments - Editorial - Sections and Features 1897 - 1992

Scope and Contents

14 items. Materials include: 13-pp. chronology, headed "Editorial Changes," running from 4/24/1960, "Opinion Section stared...", to 5/1974, "News Bureau is established in Cairo...", and 6/1974, "Paul Steiger wins the ...Loeb Award" (Financial journalism); 6-pp. (stapled) headed, "Today's metropolitan newspaper must compete successfully with other media," followed by listing of "Editorial Improvements" running from 1960 to 1966, bureau openings, news additions to LAT editorial staff, innovations; 2-pp. with listing of "Sections of the Times," giving dates various sections started, and more in-depth info for Obituary Page, the Tuesday Business Section, and Focus; article, Among Ourselves, 1929, "How we have grown!"; two copies of 12-pp. booklet titled "Daily and Sunday Features published in the Los Angeles Times ("1959" added in pencil on the unbound copy), the spiral-bound copy (with cover) is dated 1/1/1962 (binding removed) ; 1-pp. chronology for "Los Angeles Times Illustrated Weekly Magazine," 1897 - 1934; 1-pp. chronology headed "Home Magazine started," running from 1940 - 1972; article, Among Ourselves, 5/1960, "Sunday Times Given Attractive New Look"; 3-pp. of material from Los Angeles Sunday Times of 12/5/1897, including the cover of the "Illustrated Magazine Section"; 2-pp. "Fact sheet" on Voices section (start-up was 9/1992) including bio info for editors Judy Dugan and Dean Wakefield, and description of features appearing in the section; 2-pp. "fact sheet" for City Times section (start-up 1992), including general description and brief professional bios on the entire staff of the section; 2-pp. chronology of "LAT Sunday Supplements," by Craig St. Clair (1991).

Box 608, Folder 9

Departments - Editorial - Senior Writers 1973 - 1977

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. One 1973 memo from William Thomas announcing the Senior Writers program. Series of Agendas providing advance information on subject for meetings.

Box 608, Folder 10

Departments - Editorial - Spanish Language Column 1922, 1932, 1933

Scope and Contents

4 items. Examples of Spanish-language material in LAT - 1922, 1932,1933. Alternately titled "The World's News in Spanish" and "Noticias en Espanol." Notes by Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, attached to two of the copies.

Box 608, Folder 11

Departments - Editorial - Special Editions 1898 - 1974

Scope and Contents

9 items. Materials include: reprint of LAT front page, 2/25/1942, "EXTRA! L.A. AREA RAIDED!"; copy of brief from L.A. Express, 5/20/1906, critical of H.G. Otis and LAT; 1-pp. chronology, "Midwinter and other special numbers" - 1885 - 1898;clips from AO, 1928; copy of complete Midwinter Number, 1/1/1900; 2-pp. memo, dated 10/4/1961, about "demise" of the Midwinter Number, and start-up, "early next year," of feature to be called "Outlook & Review," - "it will concern itself with business and financial conditions in the Pacific Southwest"; memo dated 12/18/1961, on upcoming January 2 "Tournament of Roses Edition"; undated Editorial, "To our Eastern 'Midwinter' readers"; copy of article from News Chronicle (Thousand Oaks) 3/27/1974, byline Bob Baker, "Yesterday via old newspaper."

Box 608, Folder 12

Departments - Editorial - Sports Section 1939 - 1995

Scope and Contents

9 items. Materials include: AP story, 4/20/1939, "Daro's payoff to sports scribes bared"; copy of article, 8/1980, Los Angeles (mag), "Read all about 'em, sports fans -- inside the Times' highly touted sports section..."; Among Ourselves, 8/1974, "It no longer is just fun-and-games"; LAT clip, 2/12/1961, "Members of the All-Star team"; pg. 1 of the first ever separate LAT Sports section, 7/9/1956, two related copied sheets; LAT Sports-related briefs and memos.

Box 608, Folder 13

Departments - Editorial - Television Magazine 1957, 1960

Scope and Contents

5 items. Materials include: copy of article announcing new magazine, "TV Times,", pg. 1, 2/24/1957, "Television-radio weekly magazine to begin next Sunday"; copies of covers for first issue of "TV Times," 1957 (pic of Shelley Fabares) and "TV Channels," 1960 (pic of Fred MacMurray); copy of article announcing "TV Channels," 9/18/1960, "Times' new TV magazine to make debut next Sunday"; Among Ourselves article copy, 9/1960, "Times plans new national TV magazine."

Box 608, Folder 14

Departments - Editorial - View Section 1944, 1975, 1979

Scope and Contents

3 items. Materials include: 3-pp. (small tan-colored sheets) random info and notes, typed 1944, on "Junior Times" and "Home Service," LAT sections that existed in 1891; memo from Tom Johnson to Exec. Comm. Group, 12/18/1979, opens "...proceed on plans to split our Daily VIEW section into two parts, VIEW and an arts-entertainment section, effective Jan. 21"; tear sheet, Among Ourselves, 2/1975, "A paper needs more than hard news: specialized sections are the answer."

Box 608, Folder 15

Departments - Editorial - West Magazine 1965 - 1972

Scope and Contents

5 items: articles about LAT's West magazine.

Box 608, Folder 16

Departments - Editorial - Wire Services 1925 - 1988

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items. Materials include: 10-pp. "booklet" (w/ paper clip), "Directions for using the Telephotograver in sending and receiving news pictures by wire" [1920s?]; 1-pp. of info. headed "Wirephoto - modern miracle," 7/15/1943; various Among Ourselves articles, 1928 - 1931, on wirephotos and wire services; news clips, 1925 - 1939 , related to wirephotos; 6-pp. headed "History" [of LAT News Bureau], provides information on that activity from beginning in 1912 to 1942; 4-pp. "Examination of news agencies," an extended set of questions on history, organization, type of services, charges, etc., offered by news agencies (a template for analysis); clips on both AP and UPI having had offices inside LAT building at one time; LAT article, 4/3/1988, "The AP - it's everywhere and powerful," by David Shaw; LAT article by Nick B. Williams, 10/7/1962, "Birth of vital new wire service" (L.A. Times - Wash. Post); other related material.

Box 608, Folder 17

Departments - Editorial - You Section 1976

Scope and Contents

6 items. Materials include: two promo/marketing packets (in red folders) announcing "You," a new tabloid-sized section to be inside LAT every Tuesday; LAT clip, 9/19/1976, "New weekly magazine to appear in Times Oct. 5," describes YOU (tab.) as being designed to provide readers with information on "where to find bargains, how to manage personal finances, how to find interesting...places to go," etc.; clip from Advertising Age, 10/4/1976, on LAT's new YOU; copy of article from New West, 9/27/1976, "YOU can always get what you want"; clip, Advertising Age, 9/6/1976, mentioning YOU.

Box 608, Folder 18

Departments - Educational Programs (1 of 3) 1985 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Materials include: various booklets and packets of printed material promoting The Times in Education; form letters over Don Wright's signature; booklet, "Presidential Election '88, with tips on using the newspaper to research candidates; booklet featuring LAT in Education "A+ Essay Contest Winners," 5/26/1988; 48-pp. trade paperback-sized booklet, "Teaching English as a second language with the Los Angeles Times," 1989; promo packet, "California Citizen Bee," 1989; stapled collection of editorial cartoons, "Conrad on the campaigns" (1988); tear sheet LAT article, 3/16/1989, "Young people read, but papers aren't No. 1 choice"; photocopies of articles on Times in Education from LAT, San Bernardino Sun, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong Standard. Split into three folders.

Box 609

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 609, Folder 1

Departments - Educational Programs (2 of 3) 1985 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Materials include: various booklets and packets of printed material promoting The Times in Education; form letters over Don Wright's signature; booklet, "Presidential Election '88, with tips on using the newspaper to research candidates; booklet featuring LAT in Education "A+ Essay Contest Winners," 5/26/1988; 48-pp. trade paperback-sized booklet, "Teaching English as a second language with the Los Angeles Times," 1989; promo packet, "California Citizen Bee," 1989; stapled collection of editorial cartoons, "Conrad on the campaigns" (1988); tear sheet LAT article, 3/16/1989, "Young people read, but papers aren't No. 1 choice"; photocopies of articles on Times in Education from LAT, San Bernardino Sun, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong Standard. Split into three folders.

Box 609, Folder 2

Departments - Educational Programs (3 of 3) 1985 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Materials include: various booklets and packets of printed material promoting The Times in Education; form letters over Don Wright's signature; booklet, "Presidential Election '88, with tips on using the newspaper to research candidates; booklet featuring LAT in Education "A+ Essay Contest Winners," 5/26/1988; 48-pp. trade paperback-sized booklet, "Teaching English as a second language with the Los Angeles Times," 1989; promo packet, "California Citizen Bee," 1989; stapled collection of editorial cartoons, "Conrad on the campaigns" (1988); tear sheet LAT article, 3/16/1989, "Young people read, but papers aren't No. 1 choice"; photocopies of articles on Times in Education from LAT, San Bernardino Sun, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong Standard. Split into three folders.

Box 609, Folder 3

Departments - Employee Relations - Advertising campaigns 1989

Scope and Contents

3 items: recruitment flyers, "Information Gathering gains momentum," "L.A. Times unleashes giant!" and "The News is Spreading - we deliver great MIS careers."

Box 609, Folder 4

Departments - Employee Relations - Affirmative Action 1973 - 1987

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items. LAT Management Bulletins from Otis Chandler (1973), and Tom Johnson (1987); 4-pp. "Affirmative Action Plan" (1973); copy of "Newspeak" column, L.A. Weekly, 8/1987, alleging that LAT was "male-dominated" and that the female staffers were unhappy; copy of editorial, 2/3/1977, L.A. Sentinel, "A time to fight," implying that LAT (unnamed) had too few black staffers and management people; 3-pp. report, "Affirmative Action Activities"; etc.

Box 609, Folder 5

Departments - Employee Relations - Alliance of Businesses for Childcare Development 1990

Scope and Contents

3 items: 2 Employee Bulletins, 3/8/1990 and 8/14/1990, on child care; 1 Management Bulletin, 8/13/1990, on child care.

Box 609, Folder 6

Departments - Employee Relations - Articles 1928 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items. Material includes: copies of Among Ourselves clippings from late 1920s onward; LAT clips on subject of unions, LAT employee "census" counts; 1987 memo to LAT employees on availability of radon testing kits; booklet, "A report to the employees of the Times-Mirror Company" (1957); 6-pp. report, "Times Mirror / LAT info for Employees, ca. 1964"; memos and other info., 1988, on Temporary Help Agencies; 2/1/1989 clip from LAT, "20 at Times Costa Mesa plant charged with drug sales"; LAT Performance Appraisal Form, 1/1985; 14-pp. LAT "Employee Handbook, 1990"; etc.

Box 609, Folder 7

Departments - Employee Relations - Cafeteria 1966 - 1989

Scope and Contents

8 items: samples of flyers announcing Thanksgiving or Christmas meals in the employee cafeteria, ca. 1980s; invitation to dedication of Employee Center (1966); original of Among Ourselves "Employee Center Issue," 9/14/1966;, AO article, 10/1966, "Employee Center Opening Hailed"; etc.

Box 609, Folder 8

Departments - Employee Relations - Comparison Survey circa 1990

Scope and Contents

4 items: two copies of 2-pp. list, "1990 Top Minimum Weekly Wage for Reporters"; two copies of 3-pp. of printout material on health benefits, etc., at various newspapers.

Box 609, Folder 9

Departments - Employee Relations - Company sponsored events 1983 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Materials include: approx. 15 Employee Bulletins, 1983 - 1990, announcing fund-raising events, food drives, career fairs, etc.; 3 Management Bulletins, 1986 - 1990, announcing an employee appreciation day related to circulation gains, LAT Service Awards, etc.; info related to PLUS, LAT's substance abuse education program; LAT Employees Dugout Derby Contest, 1990

Box 609, Folder 10

Departments - Employee Relations - Credit Union 1935 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items. Materials include memos to Credit Union members on loans, dividends, policy changes, operating hours, etc. The dates range from 1979 - 1990. A copy of one much earlier memo is included. The date is 7/12/1935, and it reads in part, "All employees are invited to attend a meeting...to organize...the Times Federal Credit Union." Also 1 copy of an informational booklet (green) - "Los Angeles Times Federal Credit Union."

Box 609, Folder 11

Departments - Employee Relations - Employee and management bulletins 1983 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Materials include: bulletins for LAT staffer on blood drives, drug / alcohol abuse, direct deposit of paychecks, sick time, stress reduction; time off for voting, holidays, ride-share project, etc.

Box 609, Folder 12

Departments - Employee Relations - Educational Programs 1984 - 1993

Scope and Contents

9 items: 3 booklets (Winter, Spring and Summer, 1984) describing LAT Educational Programs; a booklet (Fall 1991) for LAT Professional Development Programs; booklet, LAT Training & Development 1993 Spring Catalog; booklet, LAT Educ. Programs, Fall 1986; booklet, "Personal Enrichment Classes - Spring '88; booklet, "Management Skills for Supervisors & Managers," Spring 1988."

Box 609, Folder 13

Departments - Employee Relations - Educational Program - Reading Lab 1988 - 1990

Scope and Contents

6 items: Management Bulletin, 7/25/1988, on LAT Reading Lab; Management Bulletin, 2/17/1989, on LAT Reading Lab one-year anniversary; flyer / poster for Reading Lab; informational packet w/ folder; copy of brief, Editor & Publisher, 3/3/1990, Los Angeles Times unveils mobile reading lab"; etc.

Box 609, Folder 14

Departments - Employee Relations - Educational Program - We Care 1987 - 1990

Scope and Contents

3 items: three staff bulletins, 1987 - 1990, related to the "We Care" (mentoring) program. The program is described as follows in one memo: "We plan to work with (high schools) through a variety of methods including visiting classrooms, speaking to student tour groups and hosting general discussion sessions after work hours..."

Box 609, Folder 15

Departments - Employee Relations - Election Day Notices 1990

Scope and Contents

1 item: Management Bulletin, 10/26/1990, reminding employers to display a notice "advising employees of their rights to time off [to vote] on Election Day."

Box 609, Folder 16

Departments - Employee Relations - Employee Benefits 1960 - 1999

Scope and Contents

Approx. 75 items: memos, reports, booklets and forms related to employee benefits.

Box 610

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 610, Folder 1

Departments - Employee Relations - Employee Center 1979 - 1989

Scope and Contents

3 items: reprint from RM, 1/1979, The IRC - a tool for growth"; two Employee Bulletins, 9/1/1988, on Employee Center hours, and 12/19/1989, on food coupons to give to the homeless, redeemable at the Weingart Center in downtown L.A..

Box 610, Folder 2

Departments - Employee Relations - Employee Clubs and Organizations 1934 - 1989

Scope and Contents

9 items: 3 programs for LAT Bowling League banquets, 17th (1944), 26th (1953) and 27th (1954); LAT tear sheet, 5/6/1934, "Times old timers," with group photo and name list of long-time employees; "1958 Times-Mirror Softball League Circulation Statistics"; description of three 1958 TM Softball League Playoff games; one Management Bulletin, 10/30/1989.

Box 610, Folder 3

Departments - Employee Relations - Employee Compensation 1928 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 45 items. Materials include: copy of Among Ourselves article, 11/1928, "Looking Backward," by Claude Luce, in which he reports that as a 16-year-old, he "drew down" $4 per week: various Employee and Management Bulletins on subjects such as company (pay) rate increases, tax issues, sick days, 4 copies of "Job Evaluation Plan - Technical and Office Occupations," (T-M Co.) 1953; ditto, 1945; 15-pp. booklet (green), "Your rate of pay," (T-M Co.); LAT National Survey of Management and Supervisory Compensation, Newspaper Industry, 9/1989; 10-pp. report, "Guide and Procedures for the Administration of Executive Base Salaries - The Times-Mirror Company, August 1958; chart, ca. 1989, "Los Angeles Times Company Rate Increase vs. Consumer Price Index.

Box 610, Folder 4

Departments - Employee Relations - Employee Contributions 1987 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. Materials include: memos and forms related to employee contributions (United Way, etc.)

Box 610, Folder 5

Departments - Employee Relations - Employee Counseling Service 1983 - 1988

Scope and Contents

4 items: two Bulletins, 9/15/1983, on Employee Counseling Service, 9/12/1988, on Parenting Classes; flyer, 9/1987, a schedule of Employee Counseling Service locations and hours; flyer (undated) "Introducing The Times' Employee Counseling Service counselors -- they're here to help you."

Box 610, Folder 6

Departments - Employee Relations - Employee Opinion Survey 1944 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 40 items. Materials include: memos and other information about LAT personnel surveys conducted during the 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, etc.; a copy of a 1944 survey and resulting data; a copy of a 1949 survey and resulting data; some analysis of these surveys; three copies of 1976 LAT Personnel Survey results; one copy of results of 1957 survey; one copy of results of 1962 survey related to in-house newsletter, Among Ourselves; two copies of 1965 Personnel Survey (white copy with "Harrison Chandler" signature, white copy with "Otis Chandler" signature; memos and other material related to 1985 and 1987 Employee Surveys; 1988 questionnaire on ride-sharing; one copy of results of 1988 Employee Survey; material related to 1990 Employee Survey; etc.

Box 610, Folder 7

Departments - Employee Relations - Fitness Centers 1989 - 1990

Scope and Contents

5 items. Materials include: memos and other information on start-up of fitness centers at Olympic plant, Orange County plant and San Fernando Valley plant; etc.

Box 610, Folder 8

Departments - Employee Relations - FYI 1983

Scope and Contents

4 items: 1 copy, Management Bulletin, 3/1/1983, on new employee bulletin - FYI; two copies Employee Bulletin, 3/2/1983, on FYI; memo on FYI relating to employee feedback on an LAT drug & alcohol rehab program.

Box 610, Folder 9

Departments - Employee Relations - Health Action 1987

Scope and Contents

One copy of LAT publication, HealthAction, 10/1987.

Box 610, Folder 10

Departments - Employee Relations - Health Benefits Task Force Report 1990

Scope and Contents

One copy (approx. 150 unbound sheets) of "Recommendations of Health Benefits Task Force, Los Angeles Times, 10/1990.

Box 610, Folder 11

Departments - Employee Relations - Health Quest 1989 - 1992

Scope and Contents

Approx. 50 items: Health Quest newsletters and Health Choice '93 newsletters and related memos, 1989 - 1992.

Box 610, Folder 12

Departments - Employee Relations - Labor 1973 - 1977, 1990

Scope and Contents

6 items. Materials include: clipping (in plastic bag), Los Angeles Citizen, 11/23/1973, "We do not patronize," followed by a list of goods and services to boycott, which includes LAT; clipping (in plastic bag), Los Angeles Times, 11/6/1990, "Strikebound Daily News sales lagging"; copy of LAT brief, 10/27/1990, "Union seeks vote by Times press operators"; tear sheet, The Review (of Southern California Journalism), 5/1974, "The Times versus the Newspaper Guild"; flyer, (1977), Unemployed Workers Organizing Committee, headed "Stop the cuts in unemployment benefits"; clipping, LAT, 11/6/1990, "N.Y. Post did right with unions."

Box 610, Folder 13

Departments - Employee Relations - Learning center 1991

Scope and Contents

2 items: two copies of brochure, "Get a mental workout at The Times Learning Center," 9/1991.

Box 610, Folder 14

Departments - Employee Relations - Medical 1962 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 65 items. Materials include: 1-pp. chronology of LAT Medical Dept. compiled by Myrtle Montgomery, LAT staffer, in 1966; memos announcing LAT sponsored 5 and 10-K runs, health screenings, alcohol & drug counseling, flu immunizations, blood drives, LAT booklet (undated, ca. 1990), "Health and safety information on alcohol and drug abuse"; etc.

Box 610, Folder 15

Departments - Employee Relations - Military Service Policy 1990

Scope and Contents

1 item: Management Bulletin, 12/24/1990, subject is pay and benefits policies for employees called to active military service as a result of the "threat of war in the Middle East."

Box 610, Folder 16

Departments - Employee Relations - Orientations 1989

Scope and Contents

3 items: Management Bulletin, 2/24/1989, subject is "a major change in the Times employee orientation program"; booklet, ca. 1989, The Times Orientation"; double-sided sheet headed "Welcome to The Times - Supervisor's Orientation Checklist."

Box 611

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 611, Folder 1

Departments - Employee Relations - Panorama 1988 - 1991

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: all items are complete issues of Panorama ("published for Los Angeles Times Retirees). In some cases there are duplicate issues for same date. Dates include: Spring 1988, Summer 1988, Fall 1988, Winter 1989, Spring 1989, Summer 1989, Fall 1989, Winter 1990, Summer 1991.

Box 611, Folder 2

Departments - Employee Relations - Parking Facilities 1987, 1990

Scope and Contents

6 items: 5 Employee Bulletins, 1987, 1990, subjects are related to various parking structures and parking arrangements for LAT employees; 2-pp. (blue) questionnaire on employee hours and commuter / parking arrangements.

Box 611, Folder 3

Departments - Employee Relations - Personnel 1984 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 40 items. Materials include: 35+ Management Bulletins, 1984 - 1990, subjects include new hires, transfers and promotions of LAT staff; flyer (green), "Season's Greetings - Employee Relations, 1986"; flyer, undated, "Meet Adrien Arnold -- new Times Equal Employment Opportunity Coordinator," includes more info on Ms. Arnold and her position. (includes photograph)

Box 611, Folder 4

Departments - Employee Relations - Personnel - Bios 1974 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Personnel Dept. biographical forms, including name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development. Completed between 1974 - 1979. Some duplicates.

Box 611, Folder 5

Departments - Employee Relations - Personnel - Company wide 1966, 1988, 1990

Scope and Contents

3 items: 1-pp., bar chart, "Times-Mirror Company Personnel Growth -- showing number of Potential Cafeteria Users, 1950 - 1966"; article clipping, LAT, 7/31/1988, "Firms ask that workers waive job security"; Employee Bulletin, 5/2/1990, subject is availability of registration forms and absentee ballots for June 1990 Primary Election at Employee Center or Employee Relations Depts. at Orange County and San Fernando plant.

Box 611, Folder 6

Departments - Employee Relations - Profit Sharing 1973

Scope and Contents

1 item: clipping, Among Ourselves, 4/1973, "1972 Profit-Sharing Allocation Sets Record."

Box 611, Folder 7

Departments - Employee Relations - Quarter Century Club 1963 - 1977

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items. Materials include: examples of letters of invitation / solicitation of donation for annual dinners of "Quarter Century Club," 1963 - 1977 (most held at "Hill's Code 7" downtown, or Old Virginia Restaurant in South Pasadena); several photographs of celebrants (active and retired staffers who worked the composing room); tear sheet of Op-Ed pages of LAT, 11/10/1969 (the marked article does not appear to have any connection to Quarter Century Club).

Box 611, Folder 8

Departments - Employee Relations - Retirement Programs 1991

Scope and Contents

1 item: 2-pp. memo, 8/26/1991, subject is a voluntary retirement program being offered by LAT.

Box 611, Folder 9

Departments - Employee Relations - Safety and Environmental Affairs 1987 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 35 items. Materials include: Employee & Management Bulletins on earthquake response, memos / brochures on Fire Prevention Week, removal of asbestos construction materials, safety and rape awareness, etc.; 10-pp. Red Cross booklet, "Employee Earthquake Preparedness..."; (approx.) 15-pp. packet of "Emergency Preparedness Information; etc.

Box 611, Folder 10

Departments - Employee Relations - Saving Plus Plan 1991

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. Materials include: three 1991 brochures from The American Fund Group (investment plan); three LAT memos related to Savings Plus Plan, 1991; two Saving Plus Plan booklets, both 15-pp., titled "Investment Alternatives," and "Highlights"; various Savings Plus fact sheets and forms.

Box 611, Folder 11

Departments - Employee Relations - Scholarship Program 1975 - 1990

Scope and Contents

7 items: Employee Bulletins, 1975 - 1990. Subjects include information about applications for the Merit Scholarship, announcement of winners, etc.

Box 611, Folder 12

Departments - Employee Relations - Security Services 1970s, 1983 - 1989

Scope and Contents

10 items. Materials include: copy of AP news brief [date is illegible, 1970?], "Bomb found in L.A. Times lobby"; Management Bulletins and Employee Bulletins related to photo IDs for employees, assault & rape prevention, description of security measures being taken at Times Mirror Square and in the parking facilities, informational meetings related to Pope John Paul II's 1987 visit to L.A.,etc.

Box 611, Folder 13

Departments - Employee Relations - Service Awards 1981 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items. Materials include: 6 Management Bulletins, 1987 - 1990, related to LAT service awards and service anniversaries; 22-pp. transcript of 1981 Service Award program remarks, 2/17/1981, by Tom Johnson (LAT Publisher), which take the form of a quick history of LAT and its previous publishers; 2 copies, (blue) program booklet for LAT Service Awards Presentation, 1981; LAT event name badge of "Carolyn Strickler - Archives - 5 Years"; copy of invitation and other items related to 1985 LAT Service Awards, held January 1986; 1989, 1990 LAT Service Awards folders, containing gift catalogs showing gifts available for various service anniversaries

Box 611, Folder 14

Departments - Employee Relations - Smoking Policy 1987, 1989

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items. Materials include: Management Bulletins and Employee Bulletins related to LAT smoking policies, specific subjects include secondary smoke (i.e. effects of smoke on non-smokers), assistance to stop smoking, information on smoking and non-smoking areas in buildings, formal LAT Smoking Policy, etc.

Box 611, Folder 15

Departments - Employee Relations - Staffing 1993

Scope and Contents

1 item: line chart showing "Los Angeles Times Staffing (FTEs) [Full-time employees]." The chart covers the time frame 1950 - 1993. The 1950 total was approximately 1,800, staffing rose until about 1989, when the newspaper had approx. 8,500 FTEs, then began to descend

Box 611, Folder 16

Departments - Employee Relations - Suggestion Program 1957 - 1984

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. Materials include: booklet, ca. 1985, "Los Angeles Times Suggestion System"; booklet (blue), "Getting ahead with ideas," (ca. 1965); in 1957 employee Maxine Caywood wrote a letter suggesting a bridge column be added to LAT. The suggestion was rejected, and Caywood was informed in a letter form Spence Price of the Suggestion Committee; memo on cost containment, 1988, and a flyer for the "Pull Together Sweepstakes (related to cost containment); an example of the "What is your suggestion?" form (in triplicate); other memos and material on the suggestion system.

Box 611, Folder 17

Departments - Employee Relations - TEAMS Program 1980 - 1989

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items. Materials include: 4 "Process Flow Charts," 1984, for TEAM activities; "The Quality Circle - what you should know about it," booklet, revised edition 1983; TEAM lapel button; 1980 "Policies & Procedures - Quality Circles Program, dbl.-sided sheet; 5 Management Bulletins, 1985 - 1988, on TEAMS-related issues; 9-pp. report, "Accountables' Status Report Presentation," 8/17/1989; LAT memo, 9/7/1989, from "The Accountables" to various section heads, thanking them for time spent with the touring Accountables.

Box 611, Folder 18

Departments - Employee Relations - Times Mutual Benefit Association 1927 - 1932

Scope and Contents

approx. 15 items. Materials include: one small sheet of heavy paper with notes beginning, "4 yrs. 10 mos. disability"; one Commercial Casualty insurance policy, 1932; one Prudential Insurance policy, 1932; (previous two in manila folder); several copies of Among Ourselves articles on The Times' Mutual Benefit Assn., 1927 - 1932; one copy booklet, "Constitution and By-Laws - Times Mutual Benefit Association," 1928; one copy booklet, "Constitution and By-Laws - Times Mutual Benefit Association," 1932.

Box 611, Folder 19

Departments - Employee Relations - Transportation 1990

Scope and Contents

1 item: Employee Bulletin, 7/3/1990, on CALTRANS project using TV monitors to inform commuters about traffic conditions and an announcement on Metro "Blue Line" service beginning.

Box 611, Folder 20

Departments - Employee Relations - Tuition Reimbursement Program 1990

Scope and Contents

1 item: Employee Bulletin, 3/28/1990, on The Times Tuition Reimbursement Program, which covered up to 90% of tuition, books and fees for job-related college classes.

Box 612

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 612, Folder 1

Departments - Employee Relations - Training and Development (1 of 2) 1985 - 1993

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: booklets, memos and articles related to LAT training and development activities, 1980s - 1993. Split into two folders.

Box 612, Folder 2

Departments - Employee Relations - Training and Development (2 of 2) 1985 - 1993

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: booklets, memos and articles related to LAT training and development activities, 1980s - 1993. Split into two folders.

Box 612, Folder 3

Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1944 1943 - 1944

Scope and Contents

9 items. Materials include: several copied LAT articles, 1943 - 1944, and one L.A. Citizen article on union campaign for start-up of union of pressmen at LAT; two letters, both over Philip Chandler signature, related to retroactive pay and wage adjustments for LAT press room employees, etc.

Box 612, Folder 4

Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1956 1956

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items. Materials include: form letter, 8//1/1956, "To all Times-Mirror stereotype employees and their families," urging these employees to vote "No" on joining a union; letter 8/2/1956, to "All division and department heads" (attached to previous letter) providing information about the polling of LAT employees; article copy, LAT, 8/4/1956, "Stereotypers at Times-Mirror turn down union in election"; letter, 8/21/1956, by Norman Chandler, "To all Times-Mirror stereotypers and members of their families," thanking them for rejecting the union; related items.

Box 612, Folder 5

Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1957 1957

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items. Materials include: memos, form letters and news reports related to the National Labor Relations Board-sponsored election, in which the employees were asked to accept or reject unionizing. The LAT pressmen voted on 2/28, the results were released 3/2/1957. The L.A. Mirror-News story carried the headline, "Times-Mirror pressmen reject union, 247-104." A number of persuasive memos distributed to the pressmen in the weeks leading up to the vote are also in the file.

Box 612, Folder 6

Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1959 1958, 1959

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items. Materials include: memos and form letters from LAT / Norman Chandler to pressmen asking them, as one letter puts it, "whether you desire to...deal directly with your company as you have in the past, or whether you wish to entrust your future welfare to the domination and control of an impersonal union shop." The vote by the pressmen was on 4/16/1959. A story in the 4/17/1959 L.A. Mirror-News was headlined, "Pressmen at Times again refuse union." The vote was 218 to 112.

Box 612, Folder 7

Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1961 1961

Scope and Contents

Approx. 18 items. Materials include: LAT memos and form letters to staffers in the stereotype department who would be voting on unionization on 4/6/1961. A copy of LAT story of 4/8/1961, "Times stereotypers again reject union." Other materials.

Box 612, Folder 8

Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1962 1962

Scope and Contents

Approx. 45 items. Materials include: memos, form letters and other LAT tactics to persuade pressmen to reject unionization in 1962. One item, a mock-up of a newspaper is labeled "Los Angeles Times PRESSMAN," 4/9/1962, with Pg.1 headline, "Union is seeking control of Times pressroom jobs." The election was held 4/13, and an LAT story for 4/15/1962 ran the headline "Pressmen vote for union in Times election." The National Labor Relations Board sponsored the election. The LAT pressmen had rejected the union's representation in 1944, 1957 and 1959.

Box 612, Folder 9

Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1963 1963

Scope and Contents

Approx. 45 items. Materials include: LAT materials--memos, open letters, flyers--aimed at discouraging pressroom employees from supporting union representation. An LAT article (copy in folder) for 6/29/1963 was headlined "Pressmen vote against union at L.A. Times." The story read, in part, "Pressmen at (LAT) have voted 202 to 187 against the AFL-CIO International Printing Pressmen and Assistant's Union Local 18 as their bargaining agent....The pressmen voted for the union in an NLRB election in April, 1962, but 58 subsequent negotiation meetings failed to bring about a contract agreement...In April the pressroom employees petitioned the NLRB for a new election..."

Box 612, Folder 10

Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1967 1967

Scope and Contents

Approx. 50 items. Materials include: two booklets, "Know the Facts," and "Just the Facts," providing financial data designed to convince pressmen to support LAT in the election; memos, form letters, flyers, cartoon strips, etc. in support of LAT being union-free; copies of two LAT news brief, 3/18/1967, "Union chosen agent by Times pressmen," and "Pressmen at Times OK union pact."

Box 612, Folder 11

Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1970 1970

Scope and Contents

Approx. 35 items. Materials include: memos, form letters, cover letters, etc., from the period of time leading up to the 1970 pressmen's vote at LAT. The vote was conducted on 7/9/1970. The result of the vote was decertification of the pressman's union at LAT. The news brief that ran 7/10/1970 had the headline: "Times pressmen vote to leave union, 213 to 134."

Box 612, Folder 12

Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1991 1991

Scope and Contents

6 items. Materials include: two editions of a so-called "Times Union Bulletin" headed "UPDATE," (one undated, the other 12/5/1991), the Dec. 5 issue refers to Publisher David Laventhol as "the bald-headed race track tout from Long Island... foisted upon us two years ago," continuing to remark that he "more closely approximates Attila the Hun than Tom Johnson or Otis Chandler,"; pre-election memo to "All pressroom employees," 11/13/1991; memo, 11/27/1991, to "Management personnel"; two flyers from Los Angeles Newspaper Guild, including union registration cards to fill out and mail.

Box 613

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 613, Folder 1

Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1993 1993

Scope and Contents

1 item: flyer [8/1993], from Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Union, Local 11, AFL-CIO, headed "Save our jobs!," it reads in part, "In these times of economic instability, L.A. Times is turning its back on the [cafeteria] workers who have served them for 30 years."

Box 613, Folder 2

Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - Miscellaneous 1953 - 1995

Scope and Contents

8 items. Materials include: copy of LAT editorial, 8/14/1953, "The AFL boycott [of LAT] is not news"; 3 LAT news stories, 1953, "Unions hit jobless pay chiseling," 1957, (Norman) Chandler cites big labor threat," 1960, "Labor group pledges fight for principles"; 2-pp. report, ca. 1971, w/ "Chronological Summary of NLRB [Nat. Labor Relations Board] elections at the Los Angeles Times"; 9-pp. report, ca. 1971, "Los Angeles Times NLRB Elections"; two 1995 flyers by Justice for Janitors union (SEIU Local 399), urging the public to call either Shelby Coffey or Metro Building Maintenance , new janitorial service for LAT, to question them about "job security and justice in the workplace."

Box 613, Folder 3

Departments - Employee Relations - Union Contract 1967

Scope and Contents

One copy of the entire pressroom contract: "Agreement between The Times Mirror Company and International Printing Pressmen & Assistants' Union of North America, AFL-CIO, and its subordinate union, L.A. Newspaper Web Printing Pressmen's Union No. 18." (dated 8/7/1967)

Box 613, Folder 4

Departments - Employee Relations - Update 1991

Scope and Contents

2 items: Management Bulletin, 9/26/1991, on "a new employee publication--Update, a timely periodic report on developments affecting our working lives"; one issue of Update, 10/24/1991, including "Message from the Publisher," by David Laventhol, and company news briefs such as "Circulation - still Number One," "Sexual Harassment Policy," "Staffing Update," etc.

Box 613, Folder 5

Departments - Employee Relations - Vacation Policy 1987 - 1989

Scope and Contents

7 items: LAT bulletins and memos - 6/29/1987, on new paycheck format showing unused vacation days / personal days; 6/30/1987, on new vacation policy, 7/2/1987, on vacation policy, as well as several more on same subject from 1988 and 1989.

Box 613, Folder 6

Departments - Employee Relations - Voluntary Separation Program 1992

Scope and Contents

2 items: "Special Voluntary Separation Program," in plain white folder (nothing printed on outside), 11/9/1992, including a 29-pp. information booklet and related materials; one copy, "Separation Program Bulletin, 12/23/1992.

Box 613, Folder 7

Departments - History Center 1978 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. Materials include: 3 Management Bulletins, 1978 - 1990, on Lois Markwith's appointment as LAT Archivist, 12/1986 memo on name change from Archives Department to LAT History Center (effective (1/1987), organizational changes involving many departments including History Center; one copy of 16-pp., Times Mirror (mag.), Spring 1988; 2 copies of LAT History Center holiday greeting card (1984) by So. Calif. artist Ben Abril; one complete issue of Among Ourselves, 6/1984; one copy, "Guide to the Los Angeles Times History Center" (no date), other ephemera related to History Center.

Box 613, Folder 8

Departments - Information Systems 1949 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. Materials include: memo, 3/25/1977, reading, in part, "Effective today, the name of the Data Processing Department has been changed to Information Systems Department"; two LAT brochures, "Information Systems," (3/1978); memo, 9/17/1975, "Organizational Changes" (on name changes w/i Systems & Programming department; tabloid-sized issue, 12/6/1975, The Pac-Times Presenter, a joint publication of Pacific Telephone and LAT, describing the development of "a complete telecommunications system" by PacTel for LAT; article, Among Ourselves, 12/1949 (copy), "Tabulating Department's Mechanical Brains know all the answers"; article copy, 10/1977, Among Ourselves, "New Computer Center in Service"; booklet, 24-pp., 11/1961, The Corner Cut, L.A. Chapter National Machine Accountants Association, lead article, "History in Headlines," on LAT; Information Systems bulletin, 3-pp., 6/13/1989, "Personal Computer Security," 10-pp. sheaf, "Information Systems Bulletin--In-house personal computer software training"; 2-pp. memo, "Communications Services," 9/11/1990; memo, 11/7/1990, "Special Services Mail."

Box 613, Folder 9

Departments - Information systems - Long Range Plan 1984

Scope and Contents

1 item: one copy, unbound, 138-pp., "Information Systems Department - Long Range Plan, June 1984 (Company - Confidential)

Box 613, Folder 10

Departments - Information systems - Personnel 1983 - 1990

Scope and Contents

9 items. Materials include: Management Bulletins, 1983 - 1990, on subjects such as organizational changes, appointments, promotions in Information Systems.

Box 613, Folder 11

Departments - Information systems - Personnel - Bios 1971 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Personnel Dept. biographical forms, including name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development. Completed between 1971 - 1979.

Box 613, Folder 12

Departments - Information systems - Telecommunications group 1956 - 1989

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items. Materials include: article copy, Among Ourselves, 12/1956, "Call The Times--byword of curious public"; copy of Al Martinez column, 2/16/1987, "Sorry, wrong number," (on the aggravations of complicated "voice terminals" replacing telephones; Management Bulletins, Employee Bulletins and inter-office correspondence, 1987 - 1989, related to new telephone "upgrades."

Box 613, Folder 13

Departments - Legal - Federal Trade Commission Case 1977 - 1982

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: clip, 8/18/1977, LAT, "FTC accuses Times of ad discrimination"; Wall St. Journal clip (same date), rate structure at (LAT) attacked"; several teletype tear sheets, 9/25/1981, sample headline, "Times Mirror to seek dismissal of FTC complaint"; LAT clip, 9/26/1981, "FTC tentatively approves Times ad discount accord"; article copy, AdWeek, 10/5/1981"; LAT ad run in Editor & Publisher, 7/24/1982, "A special message to our friends--thank you!...On August 17, 1977, the (FTC) filed charges against the (LAT).....on July 7, 1982, the FTC unanimously voted to dismiss the charges..."; etc.

Box 613, Folder 14

Departments - Legal - Personnel 1990

Scope and Contents

1 item: copy LAT article, 9/14/1990, "Los Angeles Times names 2 senior Vice Presidents" (Lawrence M. Higby, William A. Niese)

Box 613, Folder 15

Departments - Management Services circa 1989

Scope and Contents

2 items: 1-pp. of background information (including names of dept. managers) on Management Services Dept, which existed from late 1950s to 1980s; business card for "H. Gene Mestel - Industrial Engineer - Management Services Department (LAT)."

Box 613, Folder 16

Departments - Marketing 1988 - 1989

Scope and Contents

3 Management Bulletins, 1988 - 1989. Subjects are related to organizational changes in Marketing. Jeffrey S. Hall and Lawrence M. Higby are mentioned.

Box 613, Folder 17

Departments - Marketing Research (1 of 2) 1950 - 1995

Scope and Contents

Approx. 23 items. Materials include: 7-pp. report, "Time line and description of past and current ethnic-related projects, The Los Angeles Times," (time line covers 1922 - 1988); 2 versions of 1-pp. "Marketing Research Report Summary"; 30-pp. Los Angeles Times Marketing Research Department Employee Handbook," 4/1973; 2-pp. report, "The Many Faces of Marketing Research," (1973); 3-pp. memo/report, "Readership of Free Newspapers," 8/8/1962; 13-pp. report, "Profile of Readers," (Newspaper Audience Characteristics), 4/1964; 5-pp. "October 1965 TV Report"; 1/31/1950 LAT clipping, "Times-Mirror research work told to planners"; 13-pp. Los Angeles Times Marketing Research" (history, leadership, organization, etc.), 1/1982; 26-pp. booklet, Los Angeles Media Facts, 1986"; 10-pp. segment of employee handbook on "Marketing Research Department," 4/1973; 11/1987 questionnaire to LAT readers regarding their opinion of LAT Magazine; booklet, 3/1977, "Dynamic / Diverse - Los Angeles and Orange County Market"; 13-pp. booklet, "1977 Report to Times Classified Advertisers"; (10/1976) 17-pp. "Los Angeles Recruitment Guide"; full-color cover, HOME (mag) - 13-pp., 10/1976; 10-pp. spiral-bound booklet, "Los Angeles Times Net Paid Circulation," 1988; 2 copies, The Market and the Media, 1987; 10-pp. info packet, titled "1995 Gallup Los Angeles Media Study"; related marketing research materials. Binding removed. Split into two folders.

Box 613, Folder 18

Departments - Marketing Research (2 of 2) 1950 - 1995

Scope and Contents

Approx. 23 items. Materials include: 7-pp. report, "Time line and description of past and current ethnic-related projects, The Los Angeles Times," (time line covers 1922 - 1988); 2 versions of 1-pp. "Marketing Research Report Summary"; 30-pp. Los Angeles Times Marketing Research Department Employee Handbook," 4/1973; 2-pp. report, "The Many Faces of Marketing Research," (1973); 3-pp. memo/report, "Readership of Free Newspapers," 8/8/1962; 13-pp. report, "Profile of Readers," (Newspaper Audience Characteristics), 4/1964; 5-pp. "October 1965 TV Report"; 1/31/1950 LAT clipping, "Times-Mirror research work told to planners"; 13-pp. Los Angeles Times Marketing Research" (history, leadership, organization, etc.), 1/1982; 26-pp. booklet, Los Angeles Media Facts, 1986"; 10-pp. segment of employee handbook on "Marketing Research Department," 4/1973; 11/1987 questionnaire to LAT readers regarding their opinion of LAT Magazine; booklet, 3/1977, "Dynamic / Diverse - Los Angeles and Orange County Market"; 13-pp. booklet, "1977 Report to Times Classified Advertisers"; (10/1976) 17-pp. "Los Angeles Recruitment Guide"; full-color cover, HOME (mag) - 13-pp., 10/1976; 10-pp. spiral-bound booklet, "Los Angeles Times Net Paid Circulation," 1988; 2 copies, The Market and the Media, 1987; 10-pp. info packet, titled "1995 Gallup Los Angeles Media Study"; related marketing research materials. Binding removed. Split into two folders.

Box 614

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 614, Folder 1

Departments - Marketing Research - McKinsey report 1988 1989, 1995

Scope and Contents

2 items: 35-pp. report, "Meeting Reader Needs: interpreting the boundary - market research results," 10/1988 (with attached note to Craig [St. Clair] from Dennis Driscoll); 35-pp. plus report, "Primary focus on circulation."

Box 614, Folder 2

Departments - Marketing Research - Personnel 1987 - 1989

Scope and Contents

6 items. Materials include: 5 Management Bulletins, 1987 - 1989, on hirings, promotions and appointments in Marketing Research; article copy, Among Ourselves, 8/1989, " (Robert) Cohen New Director of Marketing Strategy."

Box 614, Folder 3

Departments - Marketing Research - Personnel - Bios 1975 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: marketing research personnel biographical forms, the completed forms include name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development, date of preparation. Some duplicates.

Box 614, Folder 4

Departments - Marketing Research - Publications 1990

Scope and Contents

2 items: contact information for L.A. County Public Libraries, public libraries in Orange County, college & university libraries in Sou. Calif., municipal public libraries in L.A. County, and LAT Marketing Research Publications list; newsletter - 2-pp., "Media Watch," from LAT Marketing Research Dept., 12/3/1990.Approx. 30 items. Originals of issues of Three Minutes for the following months or seasons: January (2), February, May, June, July, Autumn (2), November (2) and December 1932 ; January, February, March, April, Summer, Autumn and November 1933 ; Summer 1934 ; Spring, May, November (2) and December (3) 1935 ; Spring (2) and May (2) 1936 ; one copy of a 1935 publication titled The Three Circles, "published in the interest of good printing and good advertising by Evans - Winter - Hebb Inc., of Detroit.

Box 614, Folder 5

Departments - Marketing Research - Publications - FYI 1982 - 1984

Scope and Contents

Approx. 18 items. issues of FYI - produced by LAT Marketing Research between 4/1982 and 4/1984. FYI featured population data, income data, education data, purchase intentions, consumer habits by age group, and other demographic and statistical data for the LAT marketing region and nationwide.

Box 614, Folder 6

Departments - Pfaffinger Foundation 1945 - 1987

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: article copies, booklets, a speech transcript and other information related to the Pfaffinger Foundation. Notable items include: two (dupes) booklets, "Pfaffinger Foundation," with info on the activity ; 7-pp. speech transcript, (for Omar Johnson), year "1965" is jotted at top margin ; news articles on charitable activities of PF.

Box 614, Folder 7

Departments - Presentations and Sales Development 1987 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items. Materials include: various memos and correspondence related to the "Message from the Publisher" videotape, 1987 (of Tom Johnson); multi-section "Presentations and Sales Development - Year to Date Report, 7/20/1987; selection of Presentations Update(s), fairly complete collection monthly from late 1988 through 1990.

Box 614, Folder 8

Departments - Operations 1986 - 1990

Scope and Contents

5 items: five LAT Bulletins on promotions, transfers and organizational changes in Operations.

Box 614, Folder 9

Departments - Production 1927 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items. Materials include: 1-pp. (photos) illustrated instructions, "How to make a pressman's hat': several Among Ourselves articles(1927, 1928, 1967) on various aspects of Production; 12-pp. report, "(LAT) Production Department Information," (rev. 2/1972)8-pp. report, "(LAT) Orange County Facility Production Department Information," (rev. 2/1972); two Bulletins, 1985, 1990, on promotions and organizational changes; tear sheet, Editor & Publisher, 3/15/1980, "2nd Satellite Plant-Expansion at L.A. Times set at $215 million"; etc.

Box 614, Folder 10

Departments - Production - Automation 1964 - 1976

Scope and Contents

Approx. 45 items. Materials include: various memos, employee bulletins, media articles, and Among Ourselves coverage of innovations in the production department of LAT, including high speed photo-composition equipment.

Box 614, Folder 11

Departments - Production - Automation - Articles 1960 - 1980

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items. Materials include: Among Ourselves article copies, 1960 - 1980, on various aspects of automating the Production Department; tear sheet, Editor & Publisher, 10/6/1973, "Recyclable plastic printing plate invented by L.A. Times."

Box 614, Folder 12

Departments - Production - Composing 1945 - 1983

Scope and Contents

7 items: 2 brief, handwritten notes on slips of paper; 2 copies of single sheet headed "Stars & Daggers," explaining the meanings of icons used as designators for various LAT editions--a second copy has some notations; 20-pp.report titled "A multiprogrammed teleprocessing system for computer typesetting," with several attached flowcharts, lists and tables (ca. 1967); 2-pp. copied pages, headed "Reasons for a new composing room," the date 5/26/1945 and the typed name (?) "al tennyson" are at the bottom; single sheet with both typed and handwritten material, 12/7/1983, headed "Press --- C --- West Line."

Box 614, Folder 13

Departments - Production - Composing Room Museum 1977 - 1991

Scope and Contents

3 items. Materials include: 3-pp. list, "Composing Room Inventory, undated; 8-pp. handwritten list, headed "A corner of the composing room, 1884 - 1974," 7/25/1991; article copy, Among Ourselves, 7/1977, photo caption begins - "A corner of the Composing Room--about the way it looked from 1881 to 1974, when The Times converted to 100% photocomposition--is now open."

Box 614, Folder 14

Departments - Production - Production 1963

Scope and Contents

1 item: article copy, Among Ourselves, 1/1963, "Quality with speed keynote of engraving."

Box 614, Folder 15

Departments - Production - Production - Format and Style Changes 1914 - 1989

Scope and Contents

6 items. Materials include: brief copied from New York (mag), 11/13/1989, "L.A. Times look riles staffers"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 1/1966, "Greater readability - Times to introduce 6-column format on all clear pages"; tear sheet, newspaper?, scribbled date appears to be from 1941 or 1947, "[LAT] Has best front page, finest type display, is university finding"; LAT article copy, 10/23/1886, "The Times in its new dress" (on new typeface and new machinery); LAT tear sheet, 7/7/1980, (ad) headed "Times Change"; copy of Pg. 1 Masthead for 2/22/1914.

Box 614, Folder 16

Departments - Production - Production - Ink 1992

Scope and Contents

2 item: undated, 1-pp. report by Dan Lewis, "Ink storage at Times Mirror Square"; 1-pp. memo, 7/22/1992, "Re- The Times conversion to soy-based ink," addressed to "Laura," appears to be signed "Tim."

Box 614, Folder 17

Departments - Production - Production - Newsprint 1949 - 1977

Scope and Contents

4 items: article copy, Among Ourselves, 9/1949, "How newsprint reaches the press"; newsletter, 10/19/1973, "Keeping up with The Times" on production processes; tear sheet, Winston-Salem Journal (NC), 11/27/1974, "Paper cost is dilemma"; personnel bio, dated 8/15/1977, for newsprint handler Leonard Schneider (incl. photo);

Box 614, Folder 18

Departments - Production - Production - Newsprint Shortage 1974 - 1975

Scope and Contents

3 items: tear sheet, Among Ourselves, 8/1974, "World faces newsprint pinch, Chandler says"; tear sheet, Among Ourselves, 11/1974, "Times' new format begins in January..."; tear sheet, Wall Street Journal, 3/25/1975, "Newspapers shrink page size as cost of newsprint soars."

Box 614, Folder 19

Departments - Production - Production - Personnel 1982 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 35 items. Materials include: Management Bulletins, 1982 - 1990, subjects are promotions, transfers, retirements and organizational changes in the Production Dept.

Box 614, Folder 20

Departments - Production - Production - Personnel Record 1967

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items. Materials include: personnel records for various divisions of Production, such as Engraving, Pressroom, Production Office, Stereotype, Composing Room, Mailroom, etc. giving quarterly personnel counts during 1967.

Box 614, Folder 21

Departments - Production - Production - Personnel - Bios - General 1975 - 1978

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items. Materials include: personnel biographical forms, which record name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development and date of (bio) preparation.

Box 614, Folder 22

Departments - Production - Production - Personnel - Bios - Composing 1973 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items: Production (composing) personnel biographical forms including name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development and small photo of employee.

Box 614, Folder 23

Departments - Production - Production - Personnel - Bios - Dispatch 1973 - 1979

Scope and Contents

9 items: personnel biographical forms, Dispatch Office, forms include name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development and date of (bio) preparation.

Box 614, Folder 24

Departments - Production - Production - Personnel - Bios - Electrical 1975 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: personnel biographical forms, Electrical division, forms include name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development and date of (bio) preparation.

Box 615

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 615, Folder 1

Departments - Production - Production - Personnel - Bios - Engine Room 1975, 1977

Scope and Contents

4 items: personnel bios, with small photo - form includes name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development and date of (bio) preparation.

Box 615, Folder 2

Departments - Production - Production - Personnel - Bios - Garage 1973 - 1977

Scope and Contents

4 items: personnel bios, Production garage, form includes name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development and date of (bio) preparation.

Box 615, Folder 3

Departments - Production - Production - Personnel - Bios - Machine Shop 1975 - 1978

Scope and Contents

7 items: personnel bios for Production Machine Shop, form includes name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development and date of (bio) preparation.

Box 615, Folder 4

Departments - Production - Production - Personnel - Bios - Mail Room 1973 - 1978

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: personnel bios, Production, Mail Room, form includes name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development and date of (bio) preparation.

Box 615, Folder 5

Departments - Production - Production - Personnel - Bios - Platemaking 1971 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: personnel bios, Production, Platemaking, form includes name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development and date of (bio) preparation.

Box 615, Folder 6

Departments - Production - Production - Personnel - Bios - Pressroom 1973 - 1978

Scope and Contents

Approx. 50 items: personnel bios, form includes name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development and date of (bio) preparation; one Management Bulletin, 10/11/1990, on Paul Gledhill, Production VP, leaving LAT to become Operations VP at Rocky Mountain News.

Box 615, Folder 7

Departments - Production - Pressroom 1888 - 1991

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: several copies of LAT articles on the presses themselves, from as early as 1888 and 1895, with others from early years of the 1900s; tear sheet, LAT, 4/20/1984, "Pressing on..."; text of Editor & Publisher article, 2/25/1961, "Press layout (at LAT / Mirror) has value of $15 million"; article, Civic Center News, 11/13/1979, "Collecting rare antique presses," other brief article on press innovations; 2 artist's renderings of new presses installed 1983 at "The Square"; Employee Bulletin, 9/30/1991, on "the older presses in Times Mirror Square will be dismantled..."; sheets recording "web breaks" for periods in 1989; 2-pp. obituary of Charles Potter, founder of the Potter Printing Press Co., Inland Printer, 1/1900; etc.

Box 615, Folder 8

Departments - Production - Pressroom - Determination of Manning Requirements, Vol. I 1967

Scope and Contents

2 items: 25-pp. report, clipped, "Volume I - Determination of manning requirements, Los Angeles Times main press room - black and white presses," 6/28/1967; 15-pp. report, "Volume I - Determination of manning requirements - Los Angeles Times color press," 7/11/1967.

Box 615, Folder 9

Departments - Production - Pressroom - Determination of Manning Requirements, Vol. II 1967

Scope and Contents

2 items: cover letter for Press Room Manning Study, Vol. I I [2] from C.M. Brassell to Otis Booth, 7/10/1967; 180-pp. report, "Volume I I [2] - Determination of manning requirements - Los Angeles Times main press room, black and white presses."

Box 615, Folder 10

Departments - Production - Pressroom - Policies and Practices 1970

Box 615, Folder 11

Departments - Production - Pressroom - Policies and Practices Reports 1980s

Scope and Contents

6 items: 33-pp. report, "Pressroom policies & practices (preface)," draft, 8/1/1983; 25-pp. report, "Pressroom practices and policies (first draft) 8/28/1985; segments of various reports, loose.

Box 615, Folder 12

Departments - Production - Pressroom - Union 1967 - 1968

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items: memos and other correspondence between LAT staffers, and correspondence between LAT and International Printing Pressmen & Assistants' Union of North America; material related to the contract between LAT and IPPAU; materials related to Pressroom schedules; a grievance filed by a Mr. Salazar against a pressroom supervisor (Mr. Ferry).

Box 615, Folder 13

Departments - Production - Transportation 1950 - 1993

Scope and Contents

Copies of articles from Among Ourselves; Memoirs of the early days of the transportation department by John R. Shepperd, dated 1982 ; correspondence regarding use of Pacific Electric Railway in transporting papers ; Management Bulletins regarding the Fleet Operations department ; memo regarding the use of propane in paper distribution.

Box 615, Folder 14

Departments - Promotion 1989 - ca. 2001

Scope and Contents

3 items: 3 Sprint / LAT calling cards (30 min. free long distance) "Mister, here's a real paper - Los Angeles Times"; 1 Management Bulletin, 4/4/1989, on promotion of Susan McRae to Director of Promotion; copy of LAT article, 2/9/1990, "Disney orders theatres to drop on-screen ads."

Box 615, Folder 15

Departments - Promotion - Billboards 1948

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: copies of billboard illustrations used in a 1948 billboard "teaser" campaign.

Box 615, Folder 16

Departments - Promotion - Personnel - Bios 1973 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items: Personnel bios, Promotion Dept., 1973 - 1979. Forms include name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development, date of preparation.

Box 615, Folder 17

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations 1926 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: clipping, LAT, 1/17/1926, "Words of fire blaze in skies...Read The Times appears in huge electric letters"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 5/1964, "Promotion, research win 3 E&P awards"; clip, 1/14/1980, M.A.C. Western Advertising News, "L.A. Times uncorks consumer effort"; dupe of previous article in ADWEEK / West; copy of ad from Advertising Age, 8/16/1984, "Which newspaper provided...the best coverage of the Democratic Nat. Convention? - The L.A. Times..."; packet of AIDS coverage material in plastic sleeve - form letter signed by Tom Johnson, 2/17/1987, reprint from Among Ourselves - "Misconceptions about AIDS...", 8-pp. reprint of The Surgeon General's Report on (AIDS) 12/7/1986; Management Bulletin, 11/2/1988 memo on changes in various departments, including JoEllen Kitchen appointment as Director of Public Relations; 2 copies of brochure, "How to get your press release into the right hands at the Los Angeles Times," 3/1990.

Box 615, Folder 18

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Adopt A School Program 1987

Scope and Contents

1 item: 16-pp. spiral-bound yearbook, "PUMAS - 9th Street School" (1987).

Box 615, Folder 19

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Among Ourselves 1929 - 1950

Scope and Contents

3 items: multi-page packet, "Summary of [answers to] questions on Among Ourselves." which analyses responses to an employee questionnaire (150 participants) on in-house newsletter, ca. 1929; article copy, Among Ourselves, 7/1940, "Picnic voted best ever -- [LAT] barbecue attendance, fun, food stupendous"; LAT article copy, 4/26/1950, "Prize awarded Times-Mirror employee paper."

Box 615, Folder 20

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Bilingual Literacy Line 1994

Scope and Contents

2 items: two copies of 3-pp. LAT News Release, 9/7/1994, "(LAT) and County of Los Angeles Public Library launch bilingual literacy line for Southern California."

Box 615, Folder 21

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Christmas Cards 1986

Scope and Contents

2 items: two examples of LAT "Holiday" (Christmas) cards, one from 1986, the other undated.

Box 615, Folder 22

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Circulation Subscriber Mailings 1985 - 1991

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items. Materials include: a wide variety of "business reply mail" cards, brochures, flyers, etc., promoting various LAT products, from the daily & Sunday newspapers, to cookbooks, collections of Conrad cartoons, LAT ad clippings, and "Update - a subscriber's guide to recent improvements and new features in The Times."

Box 616

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 616, Folder 1

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Classified Advertising Promotion 1980, 1987 - 1988

Scope and Contents

2 items: glossy black LAT logo folder containing example of LAT "Timely Bulletin," several sheets with copies of LAT classified ads of various kinds, sample of Sunday comics pages headed with ad for Times Classifieds, etc. (all 1980); single page flyer, headed "Announce your good news today!" - providing info for LAT employees who wish to use free LAT classified space to announce births, engagements, weddings, anniversaries, reunions, etc. (1987-1988)

Box 616, Folder 2

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Contests 1922 - 1987

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items. Materials include: copies of LAT clips, 1922, 1926 - "New 'idea contest' for motion picture subjects started by De Mille and The Times," ""Winners in Times-De Mille film contest are announced"; 4-pp. News Release, 11/12/1987, "Times sponsors 'Write Stuff' contest at Dorothy Kirby Center"; photo & caption, ca. 1920, "Hoisting the prize autos to (2nd fl.) of The Times building"; article copy, "Start today in great popularity campaign," ca. 1920; tear sheet for 1989 "Tangle Towns" contest; clips of other contests, 1904, 1926.

Box 616, Folder 3

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Cooking Classes 1949 - 1954

Scope and Contents

2 items: article copy, 3/1949, Among Ourselves, Cookery class attendance up"; 7-pp. newsletter, 4/14/1954, "Marian Manners - (LAT) College of Cookery," features recipes.

Box 616, Folder 4

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Demonstration House 1927, 1928, 1987 - 1990

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items. Materials include: items related to commemoration of the life and career of Lion Feuchtwanger, a "German-Jewish writer" - article copy, Toronto Globe & Mail, 6/2/1988, "Second coming of a literary lion," UCLA newsletter (ca. 1977); 1990 letter and invitation related to California Institute for European-American Relations, maps to Institute location; USC News and Features, 12/17/1987, "USC receives grant from Weingart Foundation for new teaching library"; several LAT article copies from 1927 - 1928 on "Demonstration House"; items on Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades home of Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger, incl. 12/28/1987 LAT tear sheet, "Germans push for preservation of Villa Aurora"; clippings from 1980s on the elderly Marta Feuchtwanger, who died in 1987 at age 96; related material.

Box 616, Folder 5

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Direct Response Television Campaign 1990

Scope and Contents

1 item: single sheet, "Timely Bulletin," 10/16/1990, "Direct Response Television Campaign Underway."

Box 616, Folder 6

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Disaster Relief Campaigns 1929 - 1939

Scope and Contents

1 item: 7-pp. of aging, crumbling paper, an introductory sheet headed "Reference Room," explains that LAT, ca. 1930, "started funds for disaster sufferers," specifically those affected by a Mississippi flood, Florida-Puerto Rico hurricane (1928), the drought of 1931, St. Francis-Santa Clara Valley (flood), Mid-West cyclone (1925), etc.

Box 616, Folder 7

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Event Invitations 1991

Scope and Contents

2 items: a selection of promotional materials for "Baseball '91," a luncheon and panel discussion - brochure and parking instructions / map, flyer / poster.

Box 616, Folder 8

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Golf Tournament 1945

Scope and Contents

2 items: 8-pp. program, "19th Los Angeles Open Golf Tournament," $13,333.33 All War Bond Purse, Jan. 5-8, 1945, Riviera Country Club, Prize money guarantor - LAT; handwritten note from "Vance Stickell" notepad, related to "the size of the purse..."

Box 616, Folder 9

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - History 1901 - 1959

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: 2 LAT article copies related to LAT train / Pan-American Exposition train travel promo (1901); copy of ad headed "The Times and Sunset Magazine," (early 1900s issue); clippings on LAT involvement in Red Cross drives, war bond sales, etc.; 3-pp. report, "(LAT) civic activities and history since 1900," ca. 1960; info (on tiny slip of brown paper) on "Premiums with The Times included shotguns (1891)...copies of the poems of Eliza A. Otis...a sewing machine (1886)...The Times Almanac"; 2-pp. copies of Times-Mirror Co. "Promotion Department Expense[s] for...1920"; copies of Among Ourselves articles related to Promotion / Public Relations departments from 1930, 1956 and 1958; 2-pp. report, 4/29/1959, "Survey of Times-Mirror Company Public Service Activities," added in handwritten note - "Charities - Public Service."

Box 616, Folder 10

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Junior Club 1929, 1983

Scope and Contents

3 items: page copied from Among Ourselves, ca. 1929, featuring article, "Times Junior Club"; examples of LAT Junior Club membership cards, filled out in 1929 and 1930; 2-pp. handwritten letter, 11/1983, to Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, from Jonathan Raymond Bishop (the 1929 cardholder), related to being a member of Junior club, saving the membership card, a brief sketch of his life and experiences, etc.

Box 616, Folder 11

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Junior Olympics 1931, 1934

Scope and Contents

2 items: official LAT certificate, to John F. Ness, "cited...for meritorious service in the promotion and conduct of the 1931 Junior Olympic Games of Southern California"; 23-pp.booklet, "1934 Training Tips, Seventh Annual Junior Pentathlon - sponsored since 1928 in...Southern California by the Los Angeles Times."

Box 616, Folder 12

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Los Angeles Times Advertising 1887 - 1988

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: various LAT promos and announcements on features of the newspaper, most from around 1900 to the 1940s; ads for premiums given with subscriptions, including a sewing machine.

Box 616, Folder 13

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Los Angeles Times Charities 1940 - 1989

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items. Materials include: memos, Employee Bulletins, clips from LAT and Among Ourselves, etc., on Rams Charity Games, Camp Funds, support of Boy's Clubs, Times Programs in general, 1940s - 1980s; 9-pp. report, including history and operations, of "Los Angeles Times Boys' Club"; 6-pp. stapled, 9/24/1958, info on Times Charities; several "Balance Sheet" reports for the late 1950s, into the 1960s; clipping of LAT promo on Boys' Club as it appeared in Western Advertising, 8/1954, "Eddie Garcia is learning to swim"; an original issue, and a photocopy of "Souvenir Program - GOLDEN GLOVES Amateur Boxing Tournament" (2/9-11/1949), proceeds to LAT Charities, sponsors of Times' Boys Clubs.

Box 616, Folder 14

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Los Angeles Times Fund 1984, 1994

Scope and Contents

8 items: three versions of the LAT Fund brochure, 1984, 1994, with one undated (ca. 1990); several memos and bulletins, 1962 - 1990, on LAT fund raising events; multi-page report, LAT "Summer Camp Fund Five-Year Financial Summary" (materials produced in 1993).

Box 616, Folder 15

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Los Angeles Times Fund - Correspondence 1961 - 1972

Scope and Contents

7 items: handwritten note, 12/30/1992, from Danette Powell to Craig (St. Clair), attached to 6 letters which had accompanied checks written to the Times Camp Fund. Contributions were made by Richard Nixon (1961), Elvis Presley (1962), Charles M. Schulz (1965), Cary Grant (1965), Tony Curtis (1965) and Mary Pickford Rogers (1972).

Box 616, Folder 16

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Marathon 1931

Scope and Contents

1 item: article copy from LAT, 6/7/1931, "Runners on edge for Third Times Marathon to be staged next Saturday... Chaca favored in lengthy gallop."

Box 616, Folder 17

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Oratorical Contest 1924 - 1932

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items. Materials include: 4 booklets for the National Oratorical Contest (the 3rd, 5th, 7th & 9th) and the International Oratorical Contest (the 1st, 3rd, 5th & 7th), held concurrently in 1926, 1928, 1930 and 1932; single sheets of empty stationary with logos and mastheads for Los Angeles Newsboys' Club , (City of Los Angeles) Department of Playground and Recreation, and Los Angeles Times Playground Aircraft League; map of USA with oratorical contest finalists names and hometown, titled "National Final Meeting"; article copied, LAT 2/3/1924, "National Oratorical Contest on the Federal Constitution"; complete issue, The National Oratorical Contest News, 1/9/1928.

Box 616, Folder 18

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Personnel 1958 - 1990

Scope and Contents

7 items: 3-pp. (Times-Mirror Company) "Executive Position Description - Public Relations Director," 3/1958; five Management Bulletins, 1985 - 1990, on hirings, promotions and other organizational changes in Promotion and Public Relations Department; 1-pp. map/chart of seating and office assignments for Promotion-Public Relations, 11/19/1986.

Box 616, Folder 19

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Promotional Items - Early circa 1900 - 1955

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items. Materials include: 2.5" x 3.5" booklet, "Who's Who and What's What in Sports (LAT); (in plastic sleeve) pink & blue satin cloth imprinted with H.G.O. picture and new building, dedicated 10-1-1912; (in plastic sleeve) envelope postmarked 1955, with note, "Enclosed badges for your historical collection," from Viola Hill of Claremont - two cloth badges reading, "The Times - San Joaquin Valley Homesteaders' Excursion, date ?; (in plastic sleeve) match book with logo "Times rental ads bring tenants quickly"; (in paper envelope) "The History of World War II as told in Headlines of The Times" - miniature versions of LAT page One through WW II; various other examples of LAT ephemera, "Bride's needle case, bookmark, napkins printed with words "The Times" or "The Mirror."

Box 616, Folder 20

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Promotional Items circa 1960 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. Materials include: 8.5" x 11" booklet, "What your newspaper means to you and your family" (ca. 1962); info packet (inside paper envelope) copies of historical page ones, etc.; miniature "plates" for "Walk on Moon," 1969, and 1984 Olympics Special Sections; other LAT ephemera.

Box 616, Folder 21

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Public Information Bureau 1912, 1990, 1991

Scope and Contents

Photocopy of newspaper advertisement for "Free Information Bureau" ; Sheet of statistics from the public information service ; text of recorded message for the Los Angeles Times Public Information Service after it switched to a 900 telephone service ; Form letter in response to a written inquiry after the Public Information Service switched from free to a paying service.

Box 616, Folder 22

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Recycling Program circa 1992

Scope and Contents

3 items: three copies of "Facts about The Times Recycling Program," (1992?) provides facts about the program and recycling tips.

Box 616, Folder 23

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Speakers Bureau 1960

Scope and Contents

4 items: memo, 8/5/1960, from Norman Chandler to "Department Heads," on the scope and operations of the LAT Speakers' Bureau; memo, 8/1960, from Ed Reap to "Department Heads," citing the earlier Chandler memo, and describing the general policies of the bureau; two forms used by the Speakers' Bureau ca. 1960.

Box 616, Folder 24

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Special Events 1958, 1983 - 1991

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items. Materials include: LAT clips, 7/1958, on U.S. Grand Prix, Management Bulletins and Employee Bulletins, 1983 - 1989, on LAT sponsored events, the Times/Nissan Grand Prix, the LAT/Budweiser 500, Times/TAC International Summer Games, LAT/Datsun Grand Prix of EnduranceCountryFest '88 and Times Ram Charity Game; brochure for Times/Eagle Indoor Games, 1990; 3-pp. "Tentative 1991 Special Events Calendar."

Box 616, Folder 25

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Tours Of Los Angeles Times 1895, 1912, 1950, 1987

Scope and Contents

7 items: 2 sheet, article, "The Old Guard...the latest new printing press is viewed by throngs of invited guests," copied from Sunday Times, 7/14/1895; 2 sheets, article copied from LAT, 12/5/1912, "New Times building is happily dedicated"; 2-pp. article + photos copied from Among Ourselves, 4/1950; 2 copies of (LAT) "Lobby Exhibit & Tours," (ca. 1993); (in plastic sleeve) tear sheet, Downtown News, 5/25/1987, "The Downtown Lunchbox - the Belly of the Beast," by Riva Rothschild, a humorous spin on a tour of the LAT building.

Box 616, Folder 26

Departments - Public Relations 1990

Scope and Contents

4 items: flyer inviting staff to PR's "Open Office Party," bidding "a fond farewell to JoEllen Kitchen," 7/6/1990; Bulletin, 1/29/1990, to "Times Employees," "Poster contest for employees children!"; 7/6/1990, informal memo from "Jo Kitchen" to the "Kids in P.R." on her last day on the job - "Keep up the good work"; memo, 7/7/1990, "To the Public Relations Staff," thanking them for the send-off party and gift.

Box 617

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 617, Folder 1

Departments - Technical Services/Operations Planning 1986

Scope and Contents

1 item: Management Bulletin announcing establishment of Technical Services/Operations Planning department.

Box 617, Folder 2

Employees - Adams, Richard G. 1941 - 1989

Scope and Contents

6 items: article/photo copy, Among Ourselves, 10/1941, 4 grafs on Richard Adams, attorney on LAT staff; article/photo, Among Ourselves, 5/1944, "One Man's Job - Dick Adams"; Adams' story updated in AO, same column, 10/1959; copy of LAT obit for Adams, 7/14/1989; memo following obit publication - provides corrected information for, as memo states, "obit contains incorrect information..."

Box 617, Folder 3

Employees - Ainsworth, Ed 1962, 1967 - 1968

Scope and Contents

5 items: letter (in plastic sleeve), 2/9/1962, from Allan Hancock to Ed Ainsworth, thanking him for a copy of The California I Love by Leo Carrillo (in collaboration with Ainsworth); article copy from "Keeping up with The Times," 6/2/1967, on Ed Ainsworth; copy of Ainsworth's final LAT column ("On the Move"), 6/6/1967, "Time arrives for farewell";copy of LAT obit, "Ed Ainsworth, retired Times columnist, dies in San Diego"; clip of Among Ourselves obit, 7/1968, "Death takes Ed Ainsworth, Timesman for 43 years."

Box 617, Folder 4

Employees - Anderson, Warren C. 1965, 1969

Scope and Contents

3 items: brief bio sheet, headed with name "Warren C. Anderson, undated; sheet headed "Biographical Information" - "Warren C. Anderson," 4/8/1965; small slip of paper, "American Trade Press Clipping Bureau," stamped 1/1969, relevant text, "Warren C. Anderson has been appointed financial manager...of Times Mirror Press."

Box 617, Folder 5

Employees - Andreson, John 1961 - 1972

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: several versions of Andreson bio with personal and professional information; 3-pp. article, "Written by Tom Giuffrida for Among Ourselves, but not used"; various tear sheets and article copies related to Andreson's LAT career and outside activities.

Box 617, Folder 6

Employees - Andrews, Harry. 1922, 1926, 1948

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items. Materials include: various bios of Andrews prepared by LAT; four sheets copied from LAT History by Ed Ainsworth; pages copied from The Times-Mirror Company, 19th Annual Report; copy of 1922 article upon occasion of Andrews' being hospitalized for an operation; copy of 1926 obit and columns memorializing Andrews; copy of 1948 LAT article ("personality sketch") of Andrews.

Box 617, Folder 7

Employees - Armstrong, Robert B. 1948

Scope and Contents

1 item: "Men who made The Times," a "personality sketch" on Robert B. Armstrong from Among Ourselves, 8/1948.

Box 617, Folder 8

Employees - Barley, Rex E. 1971

Scope and Contents

1 item:clipping, LAT obit of Rex. E. Barley, 6/2/1971.

Box 617, Folder 9

Employees - Barnes, Dick 1989

Scope and Contents

Clipping with mention of Dick Barnes move to editor of the Los Angeles Times Real Estate section.

Box 617, Folder 10

Employees - Bassett, James 1958 - 1978

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: variety of tear sheets & clips of LAT articles by and about Bassett; brief from The Eight Ball, 9/1958, on Bassett's vacation, scorpion bites and state of health; from 1978, LAT obit on Bassett, Among Ourselves obit on Bassett, Jim Bishop obit / tribute column on Bassett

Box 617, Folder 11

Employees - Baum, Jacob 1949

Scope and Contents

1 item: clipping, Among Ourselves, 7/1949, "Men who made The Times" column on Jacob Baum.

Box 617, Folder 12

Employees - Bell, Paul 1956

Scope and Contents

Memorial clippings from the Los Angeles Times and Among Ourselves

Box 617, Folder 13

Employees - Bellows, James 1966 - 1988

Scope and Contents

7 items: article, Among Ourselves, 10/1966, "James Bellows joins Times (as Associate Editor)"; 10/28/1966, Otis Chandler's memo on appointment of Bellows as LAT Associate Editor; article copy, New West, 1/16/1978, "What's black and blue...", on Jim Bellow's becoming editor of L.A. Herald-Examiner ; tear sheet, 8/1/1978, Esquire, "Can Jim Bellows Save...(Herald-Exam.)"; tear sheet, LAT, 11/20/1981, "Editor of Herald Examiner resigns..."; tear sheet, LAT, 7/13/1983, "Bellows will develop a TV magazine for ABC"; tear sheet, LAT, 10/13/1988, "USA Today TV sets different direction";

Box 617, Folder 14

Employees - Berges, Marshall 1988

Scope and Contents

3 items: tear sheet and copy of LAT obit for Marshall Berges, 9/21/1988; (attached to obit copy) "Notification of Death from Employees Committee," date of death, 9/18/1988.

Box 617, Folder 15

Employees - Bergholz, Richard 1983

Scope and Contents

2 item: tear sheet, LAT, 6/12/1983, brief in "Newsmakers," - "Departing political writer hears form the President" ; portrait photo of Bergholz.

Box 617, Folder 16

Employees - Berman, Arthur undated

Scope and Contents

Resume-style biography of Arthur Berman, including personal details and awards received.

Box 617, Folder 17

Employees - Bernheimer, Martin 1965 - 1974

Scope and Contents

5 items: memo, 6/24/1965, from Nick Williams to Otis Chandler, happily announces that Martin Bernheimer has been hired as Times [classical] Music Critic; (attached to previous item) 2-pp. bio by Charles Champlin of Bernheimer, dated 6/19/1965;official LAT Biography for Martin Bernheimer, prepared ca. 1971; original of "ASCAP Deems Taylor Award," presented to Martin Bernheimer and LAT, 3/12/1974 ; two portrait photos of Bernheimer.

Box 617, Folder 18

Employees - Birmingham, Matthew T. Jr. 1970, 1974

Scope and Contents

3 items: 2 clippings of news briefs, 9/1970, both deal with elevation of Matthew T. Birmingham to VP of Times Mirror; 1-pp. info sheet, 1974, providing career details.

Box 617, Folder 19

Employees - Blake, Gene undated

Scope and Contents

1 item: single sheet headed "Gene Blake - Biographical Sketch," providing professional and personal information. Sheet is undated.

Box 617, Folder 20

Employees - Booth, Franklin Otis 1968

Scope and Contents

3 items: LAT clipping, 2/29/1968, "Otis Booth Jr. Named VP of Times Mirror" (mounted on sheet of paper); clipping, 8/1968, Western Printer & Lithographer, "Otis Booth, Jr., named"; 2-pp. "Biographical Data" for Franklin Otis Booth, Jr. - personal and professional information, dated 5/1972.

Box 617, Folder 21

Employees - Boswell, James - Speeches Prepared by Carolyn Hom 1984

Scope and Contents

5 items: 24-pp. speech manuscript, undated, pp. 1 headed with "Boswell - ANPA" [American Newspaper Publishers Association]; 3 versions of speech manuscript headed "Communications - a two-way street" (also "Boswell - ANPA), dated 5/2/1984 (one copy has "slide changes marked"); 4-pp. speech manuscript, 7/12/1984, "Script for Royal Opera of Covent Garden Luncheon."

Box 617, Folder 22

Employees - Bridges, Tom 1944

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT clip, 9/7/1944, "Reporter in clown suit plays circus matinee," LAT writer Bridges takes the role of a circus clown for one afternoon.

Box 617, Folder 23

Employees - Brisco, Bob 1995

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT Employee Bulletin announcing Brisco's promotion to vice president of advertising marketing and strategic planning.

Box 617, Folder 24

Employees - Britton, Dennis A. undated

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT clip, no date, Times Washington Editor to head National staff" (subject - Dennis Britton).

Box 617, Folder 25

Employees - Browne, Rick 1971 - 1972

Scope and Contents

4 items: one article, bylined "Rick Browne - Times Staff Photographer," 2/10/1971, "Young Chicano's death described"; three 1972 LAT articles naming Rick Browne as an award winner, "Three Times Photographers win awards," "Six Times men win journalism awards" and "5 awards won by Timesmen."

Box 617, Folder 26

Employees - Brownell, John 1990

Scope and Contents

3 items: plain white sheet of heavy paper, with John Brownell's signature and the dates "June 16, 1956 - June 9, 1990" printed on it; copy of LAT obit, 6/10/1990, "John Brownell, Times news executive, dies"; Management Bulletin, 6/13/1990, announcing a Memorial Mass for Brownell at St. Vibiana's Cathedral, set for June 18 at 10:00 a.m.

Box 617, Folder 27

Employees - Buchwald, Art 1949 - 1971

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: several LAT clips about syndicated columnist Art Buchwald, whose column (has) appeared in LAT for many years, including news briefs and a letter to the Editor in which B. jokingly complains that cartoonist Paul Conrad is stealing his ideas.

Box 617, Folder 28

Employees - Buck, Dr. Wayne 1983

Scope and Contents

1 item: Management Bulletin, 11/18,1983, announcing that Dr. Buck would be assuming the post of Times Mirror Medical Director, in addition to being Medical Director of LAT.

Box 617, Folder 29

Employees - Burba, James F. 1947 - 1948

Scope and Contents

4 items: clipping (source unknown), dated 10/31/1947, with bio info on Burba; 3 clippings from 7/1948, related to Burba's death, one on the fatal heart attack, one on the upcoming funeral, a final one reporting on the memorial services.

Box 617, Folder 30

Employees - Bursiek, Paul G. 1976

Scope and Contents

Two versions of biographical information sheet for Paul G. Bursiek, Jr. (born 4/9/1940, with TM from 1974 - )

Box 617, Folder 31

Employees - Callan, Mary Ann 1954 - 1965

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: news clips about Mary Ann Callan, awards, promotions, and a letter to the editor mentioning an article she wrote.

Box 617, Folder 32

Employees - Calvert, Paul 1971

Scope and Contents

1 item: obit,Among Ourselves, 11/1971, "Paul Calvert, retired photo chief, dies."

Box 617, Folder 33

Employees - Cameron, Tom 1967, 1982

Scope and Contents

2 items: copy of program, "Tom Cameron - Testimonial Dinner," 1/24/1967, Statler Hilton Hotel, L.A., on the occasion of his retirement; tear sheet, LAT, 9/19/1982, "Former Real Estate editor, show director mourned."

Box 617, Folder 34

Employees - Carlova, John 1963

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT clip, 9/19/1963, from Art Ryon's column, reading in part, "John Carlova (editorial page staffer)...has finally Clicked Big with one of his books, and is off to New York."

Box 617, Folder 35

Employees - Carr, Harry 1910 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 40 items: a selection of Harry Carr columns from the 1920s and 1930s; letters written by Carr; correspondence about Carr after his death. Carr's column went by the name "The Lancer" for a number of years. Included in this folder is a definitive profile of Carr which appeared in the "Men who made The Times" column of Among Ourselves, 3/1948.

Box 617, Folder 36

Employees - Carr, Harry - Will Rogers Memorial Booklet 1935, 1987

Scope and Contents

4 items: (in plastic sleeve) cardboard box with label on top reading "To Will Rogers: Vaya Con Dios," by Harry Carr; (in plastic sleeve) a copy of To Will Rogers: Vaya Con Dios, with a interwoven twine binding; brief letter, addressed "Dear Myra," from Carolyn Strickler, 5/13/1987, thanking her for the donation of the Harry Carr tribute to Will Rogers; LAT Certificate of Gift, to Myra Sawyer, (for the Will Rogers Tribute book mentioned above), 5/16/1987.

Box 617, Folder 37

Employees - Casey, Albert 1960 - 1989

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: 1-pp. "Biographical Data," on Casey, 2/1974; various LAT clips from 1960s, 1970s and 1980s on the occasions of Casey's promotions at TM, and American Airlines; LAT obit of Eleanor Casey (wife), 11/30/1989; clips on Casey's tenure with First Republic Bank and the U.S. Postal Service; cover story and sidebar on Casey, Forbes, 11/15/1974; letter, 2/16/1971, from Casey to the Editor of Printing Management (mag), protesting "wrong impressions" he believed an article on his role with Times Mirror created;

Box 617, Folder 38

Employees - Champlin, Charles 1975, 1980

Scope and Contents

4 items: Film review, LAT, 12/28/1975, (with note attached), of "Lucky Lady," by Charles Champlin; clipping, 11/8/1980, "Film reviewer Champlin named Times Book Critic," attached to two photocopies of same.

Box 617, Folder 39

Employees - Chandler, Robert W. 1960

Scope and Contents

3 items: clippings and copies from L.A. Mirror News, 3/15/1960, "Mirror News Manager appointed," on the appointment of Robert Chandler to be general manager of that newspaper.

Box 617, Folder 40

Employees - Chandler, Russell 1974 - 1983

Scope and Contents

Clippings, mostly of readers' responses to Russell Chandler's column on religion.

Box 617, Folder 41

Employees - Chantiles, Nicholas 1968

Scope and Contents

1 item: single-sheet Biography of Nicholas G. Chantiles, providing professional and personal information, dated 6/19/1968.

Box 617, Folder 42

Employees - Chapin, Will 1899 - 1948

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: LAT article (several copies) 5/26/1937, "Friends greet Will Chapin, cartoonist, on [80th] birthday"; a selection of undated copies of his illustrations; correspondence between Douglas Dodds of Walnut Creek, CA. and LAT writer Ruth Ryon, related to Chapin's works of sculpture; unbound proofs for Cartoons by Will E. Chapin, a collection of approx. 90 Chapin illustrations (published 1899); article copy, Among Ourselves, 5/1948, "personality sketch" on Chapin for the occasional column "The Men who made The Times."

Box 617, Folder 43

Employees - Chase, Charles 1982, 1983

Scope and Contents

3 items: text of interview with Charles Chase, Vice President, Production (LAT), 15-pp., undated ; LAT clip, 11/1/1983, "Times names Charles Chase Executive VP"; 5-pp. letter from Tom Johnson to "Charlie" Chase, 4/10/1982, on the occasion of his 45th Anniversary at The Times, which serves as both a review of his LAT career and a personal bio.

Box 618

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 618, Folder 1

Employees - Chidsey, Charles W. Jr 1977

Scope and Contents

4 items: several versions of "Biography of Charles W. Chidsey, Jr. - Director of Marketing Research," a rough draft, a final (single-sheet) version, and two copies on LAT letterhead.

Box 618, Folder 2

Employees - Cimons, Marlene 1983

Scope and Contents

1 item: tear sheet of LAT article, 9/27/1983, "How and when to bring out the monster when you run." The writer is Marlene Cimons, and she describes training for and running the Oregon Track Club-Nike Marathon in Eugene, OR.

Box 618, Folder 3

Employees - Coates, Paul 1957 - 1968

Box 618, Folder 4

Employees - Coffey, Shelby 1986 - 1995

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: tear sheet, Herald-Examiner, 4/5/1988, "L.A.Times appoints Shelby Coffey to new executive editor post"; tear sheet, NY Times, 4/6/1988, "Los Angeles Times names heir apparent to the Editor's job"; Employee Bulletin, 4/5/1988, with Tom Johnson's announcement of Coffey selection; various publications' reporting on above appointment and other career moves, incl. L.A. Weekly, The American Editor, etc; multi-page tear sheet, Esquire, 12/1988, "Shelby Coffey, Oozing Charm"; approx. 25 -pp. transcript of Coffey's remarks, including Q&A, at LAT Washington Bureau, 6/10/1988;

Box 618, Folder 5

Employees - Coffin, Jarvis 1994

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT News Release, 8/12/1994, [Jarvis] "Coffin named Times National Advertising Director..."

Box 618, Folder 6

Employees - Cohan, Charles C. undated

Scope and Contents

1 item. Undated, single-sheet biography, headed "Charles C. Cohan: Real Estate Editor.

Box 618, Folder 7

Employees - Cohen, Jerry 1983

Scope and Contents

2 items: two LAT article copies, both 6/12/1983, both Jerry Cohen bylines - "Good times rolled--so did Grange," and "A ghost story for all ages" - both on football legend "Red" Grange.

Box 618, Folder 8

Employees - Comier, Don 1967, 1969, 1972

Scope and Contents

4 items: four LAT clippings, 1967 - 1972, all of them about awards won by Comier and other staff photographers.

Box 618, Folder 9

Employees - Conn, Ed 1994

Scope and Contents

1 item: 2-pp. LAT News Release, 12/27/1994, "Conn named western advertising manager."

Box 618, Folder 10

Employees - Cornell, John 1984 - 1991

Scope and Contents

Approx. 25 items: a selection of Cornell columns from The Lens (Pasadena-based magazine of arts & entertainment).

Box 618, Folder 11

Employees - Cotliar, George 1982

Scope and Contents

1 item: single-sheet, "Biography from the Los Angeles Times," for George Cotliar, Managing Editor, 5/1982.

Box 618, Folder 12

Employees - Cowling, Mike 1994

Scope and Contents

1 item: copy of Mike Cowling column in Editor & Publisher, "Advice to those who contemplate leaving newspapers to teach",: 12/31/1994.

Box 618, Folder 13

Employees - Cowper, George 1941

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT clipping, 2/6/1941, "Times romance will lead to alter," describing the upcoming "newspaper wedding" of George T. Cowper, or the insurance department, and "vivacious" secretary Catherine Mueller. The article closes with, "Miss Mueller...(has) resigned her position with The Times."

Box 618, Folder 14

Employees - Cox, Bruce Hackler 1948 - 1961

Scope and Contents

7 items: varied LAT clips on activities of staff photographer Bruce Cox--nearly being drowned on assignment during a Benedict Canyon flood in 1952, a 1958 "navigation" of the L.A. River with writer Charles Hillinger, as well as briefs on his 1948 and 1957 marriages, etc.

Box 618, Folder 15

Employees - Crabill, Simeon "Sim" 1927, 1938, 1949

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items. Material includes LAT clips on the deaths and memorial services for Della C. Crabill (wife of Sim Crabill), who died in 1927, and S.W. "Sim" Crabill, who died in 1938. Also included is a "Men who made The Times" column from Among Ourselves, 8/1949, about S.W. Crabill.

Box 618, Folder 16

Employees - Craig, Buford 1960

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT clip, 3/31/1960, "Carver Award of Merit given to Timesman," reading in part, "Buford Craig, Times editorial page staff member was presented the George Washington Carver Memorial Institute's Supreme Award of Merit... yesterday in recognition of his "outstanding contributions to better race relations....The award was presented by (U)SC president Norman Topping acting in behalf of the institute."

Box 618, Folder 17

Employees - Craven, Earl 1956 - 1957

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: obits and notices of memorial services for Earl E. Raven and his wife, May W. Craven (all 1956), an appreciation of E.E. Craven, who had been an assistant managing editor (1/10/1956), plus an LAT clip (1957) on the marriage of Carl Craven (brother of E.E.), former voice teacher and operatic tenor.

Box 618, Folder 18

Employees - Crowe, Earl 1984

Scope and Contents

1 item: biographical information sheet headed "Earl Crowe...for reference only in The Times morgue," dated 12/4/1984.

Box 618, Folder 19

Employees - Cugat, Xavier 1928, 1953, 1990

Scope and Contents

3 items: copy of a page of illustrations, 5/20/1928, created by musician (and cartoonist) Xavier Cugat for LAT under the pen name "De Bru"; LAT article copy, 6/15/1953, "Cugat recalls his days as cartoonist for Times"; tear sheet of the lengthy obituary for Cugat, LAT, 10/28/1990,

Box 618, Folder 20

Employees - Davis, Glenn W. 1954 - 1987

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: copies of cover and a single page from Elizabeth Taylor - a biography in photographs, with photo and text related to brief dating relationship between Taylor and Glenn Davis; article copy, Among Ourselves, 8/1954, "Glenn Davis has new role in gridiron classic"; various items of correspondence related to Davis' - incl. "Mayor's Certificate of Appreciation" signed by Mayor Yorty, 1964; various information sheets on Davis; tear sheet, Civic Center / Downtown News, 9/9/1980, "Bird's eye view of the Claremont Comet" (Glenn Davis); Metro. News section, LAT, 6/19/1960, "Schissler to resign as Times' events director - Glenn Davis, star of gridiron, will take over..."; article copy, Weekend Desert Post, 6/26/1987, "Mr. Outside (Glenn Davis) still known as one of Army's best"; LAT tear sheet, 11/20/1983, "The glory of yesterday," article on Glenn Davis and his teammate at West Point, Felix Blanchard.

Box 618, Folder 21

Employees - Day, Anthony 1969, 1973

Scope and Contents

3 items: undated Q&A with Anthony Day, 17-pp. transcript; article copy, Among Ourselves, 11/1969, "Anthony Day named Times' chief editorial writer"; 3-pp. transcript of remarks to American Civil Liberties Union by Anthony Day, 12/8/1973.

Box 618, Folder 22

Employees - Dodge, Arthur "Boss" 1949

Scope and Contents

1 item: article copy, Among Ourselves, 4/1949, "Men who made The Times," about Arthur Dodge.

Box 618, Folder 23

Employees - Donovan, Robert J. 1970 - 1977

Scope and Contents

4 items: ; LAT article copy, 2/1/1970, "Robert J. Donovan appointed associate editor of The Times"; Among Ourselves article, 2/1970 (same event as previous entry); tear sheet of Opinion piece, 9/21/1975, "Even in times of crisis, Americans shun extremes," by Robert J. Donovan; LAT clip, 8/21/1977, "Robert J. Donovan...retires."

Box 618, Folder 24

Employees - Dosti, Rose 1986 - 1988

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: LAT clips from 1987 and 1988, on the Billionaire Boys Club murder case. Arben Dosti, son of Times writer Rose Dosti, was one of several young men convicted in those years of murder; tear sheet, Los Angeles (mag), 5/1986, "The Deadly Pied Piper of Beverly Hills"; tear sheet, L.A. Weekly, 7/25/1986, "Inside the Billionaire Boys Club."

Box 618, Folder 25

Employees - Downing, H. E. 1946, 1949

Scope and Contents

4 items: 2 copies, Among Ourselves, 1/1949, "Men who made The Times," on H.E. Downing; rough draft of Downing bio, 5-pp. on yellow paper w/ corrections; article copy, Among Ourselves, 1/1946, "Downing, McBride retire after long service with firm."

Box 618, Folder 26

Employees - Downing, H. E. - Office Communications 1930 - 1937

Scope and Contents

Mr. Downing made it mandatory that all employees in his department subscribe to the newspaper at home. There are a number of very colorful memos written by him to staffers who wavered from his intense loyalty to the newspaper.

Box 618, Folder 27

Employees - Drake, Waldo 1940s - 1991

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: LAT clips from 1940s and 1950s on Drake's exploits both in the Navy and as a correspondent for LAT (in plastic sleeve); multi-page packet, red paper clip, article, "The War Correspondent," being pitched to LAT in 1991 by "writer-photographer" Jack Birns; two versions of a Waldo Drake LAT bio (1962); article copy, Among Ourselves, 8/1962, "Waldo Drake, man of many parts, gets ready for leisure viewing."

Box 618, Folder 28

Employees - Drake Waldo - Newspaper Copy 1957 - 1960

Scope and Contents

Approx. 65 items: duplicate copies of stories written by LAT foreign correspondent Waldo Drake. Handwritten notations at the top margin of each stapled set read "Duplicate. Original mailed....(followed by a date)." The datelines include locations in Europe, the Soviet Union and Africa.

Box 618, Folder 29

Employees - Durling, E. V. 1938, 1957, 1990

Scope and Contents

3 items: envelope / letter dated 5/9/1938, from E.V. Durling, LAT columnist, to Mrs. Leo Rottanzi (prev. two items, plus a 1990 note related to them, are in plastic sleeve); copy LAT obit, 9/14/1957, "E.V. Durling, former Times columnist, dies."

Box 618, Folder 30

Employees - Dyer, Bravin 1983

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT clip, obit dated 9/1/1983, "Ex-Times writer Braven Dyer dies."

Box 618, Folder 31

Employees - Dwan, Lois 1974

Scope and Contents

1 item: 2-pp., "Lois Dwan - Biography," source - Tarcher/Gousha Guides, stamped 11/14/1974

Box 619

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 619, Folder 1

Employees - Eaton, William J. 1983

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT Biography for William J. Eaton, dated 9/1983, handwritten note, "Currently Moscow Bureau Chief."

Box 619, Folder 2

Employees - Elegant, Robert. 1990

Scope and Contents

1 item: tear sheet, LAT, 4/22/1990, "Author Robert Elegant fulfills his destiny," describes his writing career and his home, a "handsome 300-year old Manor House...just outside the city (of London)."

Box 619, Folder 3

Employees - Etzen Stanley B. 1968 - 1969

Scope and Contents

6 items: several bio sheets on Stanley Etzen, dated 1968 and after. Two copies of a 1969 clip from Diamond Bar - Walnut Valley Bulletin and one from Inland Printer / American Lithographer, 1969, on Etzen's appointment as marketing manager of Times Mirror Press.

Box 619, Folder 4

Employees - Farr, Bill 1981, 1987

Scope and Contents

3 items: article, published obituary, and press release on his death.

Box 619, Folder 5

Employees - Feather, Leonard 1994

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT article copy, 9/24/1994, "Leonard Feather built a life on his passion: jazz," an appreciation that appeared in Calendar section just after his death. The article was by Charles Champlin.

Box 619, Folder 6

Employees - Felton, Priscilla 1975

Scope and Contents

1 item: tear sheet, Editor & Publisher, 9/13/1975, "Priscilla Felton moves west as syndicate business manager," was published at the time she assumed a newly created job in L.A. with the Times Syndicate.

Box 619, Folder 7

Employees - Finley, Harold M. 1941

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT tear sheet, 12/4/1941, "Big story wins a job," describes how a freelance story pitched to LAT won Finley a staff writing job in 1909.

Box 619, Folder 8

Employees - Finley, Mark 1991

Scope and Contents

2 items stapled together: letter, 4/9/1991, from Mark Finley of MA., addressed to "Dear LA Times Archives," offering to provide some historical information on LAT (he was communications consultant in L.A. ca. the 1930s; 1-pp. copied from Variety's 75th Anniversary Edition, article titled "Birth of TV in Hollywood," in which Finley is mentioned.(undated).

Box 619, Folder 9

Employees - Fisher, Dan 1974 - 1984

Scope and Contents

2 items: copy of "Biography from the Los Angeles Times - Dan Fisher," dated 11/1974; same title as previous, dated 12/1984.

Box 619, Folder 10

Employees - Flannes, Robert 1982

Scope and Contents

4 items: three copies of "Biography from the Los Angeles Times - Robert L. Flannes," one draft and two dated 2/1982; two clips of a 9/15/1982 "Personal" ad in classified, (at the time of Flannes retirement) "To my many friends at The Times, thank you."

Box 619, Folder 11

Employees - Fleming, Louis B. 1967

Scope and Contents

5 items: copy of ad, with cover sheet, dated 1967, photo of Louis Fleming sitting in a large conference room (alone), caption - "The Man: Fleming at the United Nations"; two copies of "Biography - Louis B. Fleming, undated; 15-pp. Q&A with Fleming, undated.

Box 619, Folder 12

Employees - Foisie, Jack 1966 - 1979

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: several photographs of Foisie - some are formal portraits, others are informal views - including one with President Gaafar Numeiry of Sudan (military regime, 1966 - 1985); article copy, LAT, 2/1/1966, "Times writer in Saigon suspended for 30 days"; reprint of LAT article, 7/31/1966, "A reporter's farewell to Vietnam"; exchange of letters betw. Foisie and Julian Merris, Jr., of Ventura, in 10/1979, when Foisie was at Johannesberg Bureau; exchange of letters betw. Foisie and friends "Jack and Mickey" (also 1979).

Box 619, Folder 13

Employees - Foley, John undated

Scope and Contents

1 item: 11-p. Q&A with John Foley, undated. Opens, "I'm the Assistant Managing Editor, I deal mainly with special projects."

Box 619, Folder 14

Employees - Foster, Jesse R. 1984

Scope and Contents

1 item: Management Bulletin, 7/17/1984, reading in part, "Jesse R. Foster, currently Director of Financial Planning for the Times Mirror Co., has been appointed as an Asst. Controller for the Los Angeles Times, effective July 30, 1984."

Box 619, Folder 15

Employees - Fox, Christy 1975

Scope and Contents

2 items: two Biography packets on Fox, both 3-pp.. One is undated, the other dated 1975.

Box 619, Folder 16

Employees - Frampton, Mary undated

Scope and Contents

1 item: Biography from the Los Angeles Times, Mary Frampton - (LAT) Staff Photographer (ca. 1976)

Box 619, Folder 17

Employees - French, Oliver 1945, 1988

Scope and Contents

3 items: 2-pp. bio [1945], Oliver French - Editor, Sunday Art Dept.; Interoffice Correspondence, 6/7/1988; notes on the LAT career of French; covering note for previous, also dated 6/7/1988, from Robert Bills to Carolyn [Strickler].

Box 619, Folder 18

Employees - Galvez, Jose 1984

Scope and Contents

Approx. 20 items: Galvez started with LAT in 1980. In 1984, an exhibition of his work was featured at the Plaza de la Raza Cultural Center (in Lincoln Park). This collection of memos and clips from local newspapers and newsletters covers the recognition Galvez was receiving at Plaza de la Raza, which was part of the larger Olympic Festival during Summer '84.

Box 619, Folder 19

Employees - Gatherer, James 1960

Scope and Contents

2 items: article copy, Among Ourselves, 3/1960, "One man's job -- Jim Gatherer"; clip, undated, photo of "Jim" Gatherer with a stack of mail, caption - "What's in a name?'

Box 619, Folder 20

Employees - George, Samuel 1969

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: several sheets of biographical material on Mr. George, undated; several clippings related to appointments or promotions of Mr. George (1969); several copies,duped clips when George was promoted to President of Times Mirror Press, 10/3/1969, etc.; 1-pp. headed "Samuel A. George - Biography," dated 10/19/1972.

Box 619, Folder 21

Employees - Gingold, Howard undated

Scope and Contents

1 item: 1-pp. headed "gingold - biog." - provides background information of general assignment reporter Howard Gingold, started with LAT 3/1960.

Box 619, Folder 22

Employees - Goff, Tom 1985

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT clip, 6/18/1985, "Veteran Times reporter Tom Goff dies."

Box 619, Folder 23

Employees - Goldberg, Albert 1990

Scope and Contents

2 item: LAT clip, obit, 2/6/1990, "Albert Goldberg...former Times music critic"; LAT clip, 2/6/1990, "Albert Goldberg - an appreciation."

Box 619, Folder 24

Employees - Greenburg, Carl 1973, 1984

Scope and Contents

2 items: program for Carl Greenberg's retirement dinner in 1973 (guests included Otis Chandler, former Gov. Edmund G. Brown, Gov. Ronald Reagan, Mayor Tom Bradley, Bob Hope, several senators, etc.; LAT clip, 11/14/1984, "Retired Times political writer Greenberg dies."

Box 619, Folder 25

Employees - Greenwood, Noel E. 1981

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT clip, 1/25/1981, "Noel Greenwood selected as Times' Metropolitan Editor."

Box 619, Folder 26

Employees - Grider, James B. 1969 - 1983

Scope and Contents

7 items: single sheet of informal, handwritten notes headed "Grider"; Management Bulletin, 12/8/1969, "James G. Grider...has accepted the position of General Manager of Times Mirror Press"; various 1976 memos and bulletins on a Grider transfer/promotion; 1-pp. "Biography...Los Angeles Times," 8/1977, on James B. Grider; LAT flyer announcing "Jim Grider Retirement Dinner," 3/21/1983, L.A. Music Center - Blue Ribbon Room.

Box 619, Folder 27

Employees - Guttry, Harvey V. Jr. 1968 - 1969

Scope and Contents

4 items: two 1969 clips, Burbank News and Glendale News Press, "Glendalian named Assistant Controller (of Times Mirror)"; two clips (dupes) of LAT Business & People brief, 12/10/1969, "Harvey V. Guttry Jr. has been elected controller of Times Mirror."

Box 619, Folder 28

Employees - Haber, Joyce 1974, 1993

Scope and Contents

2 items: tear sheet, Time (mag) 6/3/1974, A guide to syndicated survivors (incl. Haber); article copy, Los Angeles (mag) 12/1993, "The rise and fall of the last gossip queen."

Box 619, Folder 29

Employees - Hale, Chester L. "Smokey" 1970

Scope and Contents

1 item: copy of LAT obit, 10/18/1970, "Chester Hale, ex-editor, dies at 68."

Box 619, Folder 30

Employees - Hall, Chapin 1937 - 1943

Scope and Contents

7 items: single-sheet, "Obituary for W.R. Farrell, by Chapin Hall," stamped 1/7/1937; Among Ourselves, brief bio in "Strictly Confidential" column, 4/1942; LAT obit, 1943, "Chapin Hall dies suddenly"; tribute LAT, 7/13/1943, "Chapin Hall, newspaperman to the last"; 2 copies, Among Ourselves, "Men who made The Times, 11/1948, on Chapin Hall; 3-pp. rough draft for 1943 tribute after Chapin's death.

Box 619, Folder 31

Employees - Hall, Jeffrey 1988 - 1989

Scope and Contents

4 items: 2-pp. LAT News Release, 9/20/1988, "Hall named vice president, marketing services"; Management Bulletin, 1/12/1989, Hall makes announcement on Kenneth Bruns; Management Bulletin, 8/18/1989, "Jeffrey S. Hall, vice president, will be promoted to the new position of president of the San Fernando Valley Edition....he will retain the title of vice president of The Times"; 6-pp. Display Advertising Digest (LAT, 6/1989, "Jeff Hall talks about marketing services."

Box 619, Folder 32

Employees - Hallner, Marian 1939 - 1990

Scope and Contents

7 items: three brief letters, 1939 - 1949, from Norman Chandler to Marian Hallner, expressing appreciation for her work with the Employee Committee; letter, 3/23/1951, N. Chandler to Hallner, expressing surprise that Hallner had declined to accept the chairperson post of the Times-Mirror Employees Committee; letter, 4/13/1967, from James Isaacs, LAT Controller, to Marian Hallner, Credit Dept., congratulating her on completion of a Management Workshop; letter, 7/11/1968, from N. Chandler to M. Hallner, related to her early retirement "on doctor's orders"; single sheet of Hallner employee data, printed out ca. 1990.

Box 619, Folder 33

Employees - Hamilton, Peggy 1922 - 1984

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: various pieces of memorabilia and ephemera related to the career of Hollywood clothing designer Peggy Hamilton, 1894 - 1984. The collection includes a tear sheet article, Long Beach Sunday Telegram, 4/9/1922, "Peggy Hamilton's noted dress show coming next week"; original of program for "Fashion Promenade and Tea Dansants - under the personal direction of PEGGY HAMILTON, 5/13/1925 (at L.A. Biltmore); single sheet of info, stapled to (pink) program for "Pageant of Jewels," L.A. Biltmore, 5/13/1930, directed by Peggy Hamilton; photo & caption, Sports Illustrated, 1/9/1956, "Peggy Hamilton's living room," reads attached card; a sheaf of sheet music; several pieces of handwritten correspondence by Hamilton; LAT obit, 2/27/1984, Los Angeles style-setter Peggy Hamilton dies at 90."

Box 619, Folder 34

Employees - Hanson, Chester G. "Chick" 1949 - 1976

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: 2-pp. "Memo to Hotchkiss...", undated, note written at top - "Personal & private," related to some complaints Hanson had with co-workers and itemizing his expanse account; copies of clips, 1949 - 1955, mentioning Hanson; letter to editor of LAT, 11/24/1962, written by Hanson; typed note to Jim Bassett at LAT, 1/31/1973; LAT clip, 12/14/1976, "Chester G. Hanson, 86, former newsman, dies."

Box 619, Folder 35

Employees - Hartmann, Robert T. 1980 - 1994

Scope and Contents

2 items: 5-pp. "Biographical Information" for Robert T. Hartmann, stapled to multi-page list of "Series Descriptions" for the Hartmann Papers, ca. 1980; letter, 6/17/1994, from Nancy Mirshah (archivist) of Gerald R. Ford Library in Michigan, to LAT Library, w/ cover note.

Box 619, Folder 36

Employees - Hateley, B. J. 1988

Scope and Contents

1 item: single sheet, Management Conference Spotlight, 5/1988, on "training and development manager B.J. Hateley..."

Box 619, Folder 37

Employees - Haven, Frank 1963 - 1995

Scope and Contents

Approx. 10 items: article clip, Among Ourselves, 11/1963, "Frank Haven named Times managing editor"; bio sheet, 7/21/1964; bio sheet, 3/20/1974; several rough, undated bio sheets; 1-pp., official, Biography from the Los Angeles Times - Frank P. Haven (undated); tear sheet and one copy, LAT obit, 2/28/1995, "Frank P. Haven, ex-Times managing editor [dies]."

Box 619, Folder 38

Employees - Hayden, Charles F. 1948

Scope and Contents

1 item: Among Ourselves clip, 9/1948, "Men who made The Times" column on Charles F. Hayden.

Box 619, Folder 39

Employees - Hazen, Earl 1953

Scope and Contents

1 item: Among Ourselves clip, 4/1953, "Three T-M newsmen on mend after crash" - the headline neglects the death in the plane crash of "Earl Hazen, 28-year-old Mirror police reporter of Glendale..."

Box 619, Folder 40

Employees - Hazlett, Bill 1983

Scope and Contents

1 item: tear sheet, The Eight Ball, 9/1983, in "--30--" column (obits), Bill Hazlett, LAT staff writer, 52, died of "an apparent heart attack."

Box 619, Folder 41

Employees - Hebert, Ray 1962

Scope and Contents

1 item: bio sheet (rough draft), 1962, for Ray Hebert, LAT "urban plans" editor.

Box 619, Folder 42

Employees - Henry, Bill 1928 - 1970

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items: clips, memorabilia, correspondence, etc. Highlights: Bill Henry bio (in plastic sleeve), dated 10/22/1928; 2 program booklets for Henry's memorial (he passed on in 1970); scrapbook in white folder labeled "The Opening of the Bill Henry Room (Occidental College), 1971; copy of LAT obit, 4/14/1970, "Bill Henry, Times columnist for 30 years, dies at age 79"; copy of LAT sidebar following Henry' death, "Text of Nixon note to Mrs. Bill Henry," in which Nixon praised Henry as "a man deeply dedicated to his profession..."

Box 619, Folder 43

Employees - Herrell, Leone E. undated

Scope and Contents

1 item: undated "Biographical Sketch," for Leone E. Herrell, "Assistant Club Editor" handwritten at top of sheet.

Box 619, Folder 44

Employees - Hirschfeld, Mary S. 1974

Scope and Contents

1 item: Management Bulletin, 12/4/1974, "Mary S. Hirschfeld has been appointed Administrator, Equal Employment Opportunity Programs (Times Mirror)..."

Box 619, Folder 45

Employees - Hogue, S. Fred 1941, 1948

Scope and Contents

2 items: LAT obit copy, 6/28/1941, "S. Fred Hogue of 'Times' dies"; Among Ourselves article copy, 12/1948, "Men who made The Times," on S. Fred Hogue.

Box 619, Folder 46

Employees - Hoke, Fleeta Louise 1995

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT obit copy, 4/13/1995, "Fleeta Louise Hoke, 94, Retired Times food editor."

Box 619, Folder 47

Employees - Holden, William T. 1941 - 1970

Scope and Contents

5 items: Among Ourselves article copy, 5/1941, brief bio, William T. Holden; half-sheet, brief bio, 2/8/1950; Among Ourselves article copy, 5/1950, "Bill Holden to retire - succeeded by [Nick] Williams"; dupe of previous; LAT obit clip, 12/25/1970, "William T. Holden - ex-Times executive."

Box 619, Folder 48

Employees - Hopper, Hedda 1938 - 1966

Scope and Contents

4 items: LAT article copy, 2/14/1938 [Valentine's Day], "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood" (1st-ever column for LAT); another 1938 column; LAT article copy, "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood," 12/28/1941; LAT obit, 2/2/1966, "Hedda Hopper dies at 75, ending movie era.

Box 619, Folder 49

Employees - Horne, Richard 1985

Scope and Contents

Management Bulletin regarding Richard Horne's promotion to Capital Planning Manager.

Box 619, Folder 50

Employees - Hotchkiss, L.D. 1957 - 1964

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: two 20 page copies of bio notes (ca. 1965), headed "L.D. (Loyal Durand) Hotchkiss..."; draft of retirement story, 1957; several newspaper clips from time of his retirement (in plastic sleeve); two copies article, ASNE Bulletin, 2/1957, "All he needs to be a tiger is a set of stripes," profile of Hotchkiss; LAT article copy, 12/11/1958, "1000 pay tribute to L.D. Hotchkiss, retiring Editor in Chief of Times"; two copies of illustration, "Mr. Hotchkiss goes to Washington"; original tear sheet and copy, LAT obit, 4/17/1964, "L.D. Hotchkiss, retired editor of Times, dies."

Box 619, Folder 51

Employees - Hotchkiss, L.D. - Editorials 1948, 1950, 1958

Scope and Contents

5 items: LAT clips, editorial page pieces by Hotchkiss, from the years, and on the subjects given in "Folder Title."

Box 619, Folder 52

Employees - Hotchkiss, L.D. - Editorials - Communism 1948 - 1951

Scope and Contents

4 items: four LAT editorial page clips by Hotchkiss, on the subject of communism and the "Cold War."

Box 619, Folder 53

Employees - Hotchkiss, L.D. - Editorials - L. A. 1948, 1953, 1958

Scope and Contents

4 items: four Hotchkiss editorials on subjects given in "Folder Title."

Box 619, Folder 54

Employees - Hotchkiss, L.D. - Editorials - Newspapers 1941 - 1958

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 items: 1 copy, 20-pp. bio material & co-worker interview transcripts; approx. 20-pp. of text, beginning, "I would like to discuss with you ...some of the current criticism directed at the daily press in this country"; 5-pp. text by Hotchkiss on the occasion of LAT 75th Anniversary; 4-pp. copied from ASNE Bulletin, 6/1/1957, "The 'full text' is still with us," featuring a quote from Hotchkiss; other ASNE Bulletins from 1950s, in which Hotchkiss is mentioned; tear sheet of 1951 article at the time of William Randolph Hearst's death; a selection of opinion pieces (1940s-1950s) by Hotchkiss; a profile (1948) of LAT staffer Tim Turner, "an 18th century liberal."

Box 619, Folder 55

Employees - Hotchkiss, L.D. - Editorials - Politics 1952 - 1960

Scope and Contents

Approx. 12 items: Hotchkiss articles on the subjects listed above, between the years 1952 and 1960. In addition, there is one article copy from ASNE Bulletin, 1/1952, "Are we being shouted into a war?' features several Editors-in-Chief responding to the title question, one is Hotchkiss.

Box 620

Reference Files - Los Angeles Times

Box 620, Folder 1

Employees - Hulse, Jerry 1987 - 2002

Scope and Contents

4 items: copy LAT article, 6/28/1987, "French President honors Times Travel Editor Hulse"; clip LAT ad, 7/14/1987, "The Latest Legionnaire," citing Hulse' winning of the Legion of Honor award (and pointing out "there's only one place to find him - Los Angeles Times)"; clip of LAT article, "Hulse receives legion of honor"; LAT obit tear sheet, 1/26/2002, "Jerry Hulse, 77 - Times Travel Editor."

Box 620, Folder 2

Employees - Humphrey, Hal 1968

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT obit copy, 12/31/1968, "TV columnist Hal Humphrey dies at 56 after heart attack."

Box 620, Folder 3

Employees - Hutchinson, Glen R. 1934, 1978

Scope and Contents

3 items: one T-M business card for "Glen R. Hutchinson, Production Manager, Newspaper Division..."; tear sheet of photo & caption for "Times old timers," LAT, 5/6/1934; 2-pp. handwritten letter from Mrs. Glen R. Hutchinson to Lois Markwith (LAT Archivist), 9/4/1978.

Box 620, Folder 4

Employees - Isenberg, Steven L. 1990 - 1992

Scope and Contents

3 items: Management Bulletin, 9/12/1990, which opens, "Steven L. Isenberg, associate publisher of Newsday, will join (LAT) as executive vice president, marketing, effective 1/1/1991"; LAT clip, 9/13/1990, (same story as previous); article copy, AdWeek, 5/4/1992, "Return of the Native....Steve Isenberg has come back to...Los Angeles."

Box 620, Folder 5

Employees - Isinger, Bill 1995

Scope and Contents

2 items: two memos, both 2/1995, from Dick Schlosberg to Combined Incentive Groups, on Bill Isinger's heart attack, a subsequent operation, and his recovery.

Box 620, Folder 6

Employees - Jacobs, Jody 1974 - 1975

Scope and Contents

4 items: LAT tear sheet, 6/20/1974, "Eyeball to eyeball with Rex Reed," by Jacobs; clip from Los Angeles (mag), 1/1975, on Frank Sinatra feud with LAT; clip from Los Angeles (mag), 2/1975, brief in "What's Up" column providing more on Frank Sinatra feud with LAT; LAT tear sheet of Jody Jacobs last column for the paper (date not included).

Box 620, Folder 7

Employees - Jewell, Lynne 1994

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT News Release, 12/28/1994, "L.A. Times names Jewell Valley/Ventura Editions Public Relations Manager."

Box 620, Folder 8

Employees - Jones, Cleaves 1946 - 1951

Scope and Contents

Approx. 30 items: copies of a selection of articles written by Jones, an LAT political reporter and later editorial writer. He wrote on National and International affairs. The file includes a copy of the LAT obit for Jones, 8/18/1951.

Box 620, Folder 9

Employees - Jones, Isabel Morse undated

Scope and Contents

1 item: 2-pp. of biographical material, written by Jones herself, headed "Isabel Morse Jones - Music Editor. It provides information on her life and career.

Box 620, Folder 10

Employees - Jordan - Smith, Paul 1927, 1971

Scope and Contents

13 item: Selection of material by and about Jordan-Smith; news article copy, 8/14/1927, "Pavel Jerdanowitch is Paul Jordan Smith"; other material on "art hoax" (a prank) of 1927 in which Jordan-Smith was a key player; rough draft of obit, 7/23/1970; LAT obit copy, "Ex-Times book editor Paul Jordan-Smith dies"; etc.

Box 620, Folder 11

Employees - Kaplan, Sam Hall 1990

Scope and Contents

1 item: Downtown News article copy, 5/28/1990, "Design curmudgeon won't take it anymore--after many feuds, Kaplan takes leave." [Kaplan was taking a six-month sabbatical, after which "he could retire early...or return to The Times."]

Box 620, Folder 12

Employees - Kardell, Benjamin F. 1934, 1938

Scope and Contents

6 items: two oversized sheets of sturdy paper headed "To a man who has the respect of all...may your retirement be a long and happy one," covered with the signatures of co-workers (1934); four clips related to obituary material or news briefs on the memorial services (1938).

Box 620, Folder 13

Employees - Kelly, Florence Finch 1939

Scope and Contents

1 item: six legal-size sheets copied from the book Flowing Stream, the story of fifty-six years in American newspaper life, by Florence Finch Kelly, 1939. Finch wrote for The Times around 1900.

Box 620, Folder 14

Employees - Kerby, Phil circa 1964

Scope and Contents

1 item: 37-pp. transcript of interview, headed "L.A. Times" -- Phil Kerby -- R#1." Undated, from internal evidence, it seems likely the interview took place during the early to mid-1960s.

Box 620, Folder 15

Employees - Kingsley, Grace 1962

Scope and Contents

1 item: LAT obit copy, 10/10/1962, "Grace Kingsley, pioneer film editor, dies."

Box 620, Folder 16

Employees - Kirsch, Robert 1980

Scope and Contents

2 items: LAT obit, 8/17/1980, and "in memoriam" article, 8/19/1980, on Robert Kirsch.

Box 620, Folder 17

Employees - Klein, Jeffrey 1990, 1994

Scope and Contents

2 items: 2-pp. LAT bio on Jeffrey S. Klein, 3/1990; invitation (w/ envelope) for a testimonial dinner honoring Klein, given by the Anti-Defamation League, San Fernando Valley Division, 11/3/1994. In 1994, Klein was President, LAT Valley and Ventura County Editions.

Box 620, Folder 18

Employees - Klunder, Jack 1988

Scope and Contents

1 item: 1-pp. article, LAT Management Conference Bulletin, 5/1988, "Circulation's Jack Klunder," is a profile.