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Visitors - VIP Letters
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Approx. 10 items: letters from various visitors to LAT - most in journalism or politics. Included are letters from: Rupert Pennant-Rea (Editor, The Economist) ; Alistair Cooke (BBC) ; George P. Shultz (Sec. of State) ; Peter V. Ueberroth (Commissioner of Baseball) ; Elizabeth H. Dole (Sec. of Transportation) ; Alexander Haig (ex-Sec. of State).
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"Life in Israel" supplement
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Approx. 25 items - letters and related material. Notable names and items include: A.S. Epstein (Publisher/Editor, Life in Israel & real estate exec.) who is frequently unhappy with LAT coverage of Israeli-Palestinian conflicts ; letters from Epstein to Tom Johnson and Ronald Reagan ; more materials related to the larger Middle East conflict ; more.
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E - Miscellaneous Correspondence
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Approx. 40 items. Subjects include: moral values in motion pictures & indecency in advertising; "the red-neck tradition" in Southern politics (in letter to E. Etheridge, June 1969); the deal to reprint articles from The Economist; an opinion survey published in Editor & Publisher rating opinion writers, including LAT's, on ideology; Williams reaction to American Center for Education's (previously mentioned) survey alleged that 18% of LAT columnist were "radical liberal" and another 32% were "extreme liberal; etc.
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WFT Hosted Lunches
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Approx. 50 items, including: planning materials, guest lists and other items related to Thomas' hosted lunches at Times Mirror Square (Director's Suite, Tamayo Room and Norman Chandler Pavilion). Notable names on the guest lists: Ed Davis (L.A. Police Chief), Walter F. Mondale, Jimmy Carter, Fred Friendly (Ford Foundation), Frank Church (U.S. Senate), Robert Strauss (Democratic Nat. Chair.), Ed Edelman (County Supervisor), Warren Christopher, James Schlesinger (Defense Sec.), Robert Byrd (U.S. Senate), Ronald Reagan, more.
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Employees - Lewis, Hugh A. (Bud)
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Approx. 10 items: series of article copies reflecting Lewis' assignments and promotions between The Times, The Mirror News and the Herald-Examiner during the 1950s and 1960s. His obituary, which ran 8/17/1964, read in part, "Mr. Lewis, a journalist for more than 50 years, was a former publisher and editor of The Mirror News, editor at the time of his death of the Herald-Examiner and a former city editor of The Times."
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The New York Times
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4 items: 1946 letter from New York Times Managing Editor Edwin L. James to Norman Chandler ; 1964 exchange of letters between Norman Chandler and Thomas Curran of United Press Associates ; earshot from The Economist, 1/25/1964, "Off the news stand," on the failure of the New York Times Western Edition in a showdown with Los Angeles Times.
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