Manuscripts
Chronological File - December
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Chronological File - December
Manuscripts
Approx. 85 items. Letters and memos. Subjects include: new type faces; letter to Ambassador. Walter Annenberg (12/30/1970); LAT not a Republican or a Democratic newspaper; 2-pp. letter to Robert Krueger of Planning Research Corp. on Conrad's cartoons, William Buckley's column, and the fact that comic strips not chosen at LAT on the grounds of political philosophy (12/30); answer to irate reader denying that LAT "slant(s) news along Pro-Arab lines"; answer to a Berkeley woman who took exception to LAT's Women of the Year selections, especially Goldie Hawn (12/30); obsolescence of comic strips; 1970 Editorial Awards; letter to Ben Bradlee (Washington Post) on costs of "IHT" (International Herald Tribune?) ; letter (12/21) to Constantin von Dziembowski, German Consul General in L.A.; on new architectural critic, John Pastier; reply to claim by singer Bobby Darin (12/18) that LAT was anti-Semitic; reply to reader, James B. Gordon (12/11) believed LAT was biased against the Nixon Administration; letter to Andrew Franklin, British Consul-Gen. in L.A. (12/10); letter to Patrick Monaghan, law prof. at U. of Idaho, on confidentiality of sources; list of new editorial employees (10/30/1970 ?); 2-pp. letter to Robert Elegant, LAT correspondent in W. Germany (11/23/1970 ?); etc.
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Chronological File - May
Manuscripts
Approx. 85 items. Letters, memos. Subjects and correspondents include: (5/19/'71) NBW memo to Jim Bellows - "I don't think Ellen Peck, Margo or Erma Bomback make much of an impression in (LAT)...I doubt this kind of chatty femininity ever will"; (5/12/'71) 3-pp. letter to Charles Young, Chancellor, UCLA, "i want to argue...for a Dept. of Communications, embracing aspects of...printed and electronic journalism" ; memo to Frank Haven on "reviv(ing) the idea of media coverage" on financial aspects of TV and radio"; letter to disgruntled reader, 5/11, listing instances in which LAT backed Nixon Admin ; (5/11) letter to J. Edward Murray of Arizona Republic on ASNE issues; (5/7/'71) the flap over nutritionist Frederick Stare; letter to Edward Carter, Pres., Broadway-Hale Stores, a UC Regent; a higher ratio of notes to personal friends, due possibly to the fact that NBW was to retire in August; (5/5) letter thanking William Buckley, Jr., for dinner at his home; (5/4/'71) personal investments may compromise reporting or editing duties at LAT (to Haven, Cotliar, etc.; (5/27) letter to a Mrs. Trent on X-rated films, etc. ; 2-pp. memo on West magazine; letter to Sen. Harold Hughes in DC; letter to Julian Nava, Pres., L.A. Board of Education; to Judge William Palmer, L.A. County Superior Court.
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Chronological File - October - December
Manuscripts
Approx. 80 items. Letters and memos. (a higher percentage of NBWs' correspondence takes the form of friendly, chatty letters, sharing news of his own activities, etc.) Subjects and correspondents include: (10/18) 4-pp. letter to David Laventhol (Newsday) on developments at that paper (blue ppr clip); (10/13) 2-pp. memo to Otis Chandler with thoughts on The Pilot (OC), Laventhol & Newsday and Dallas Times Herald; (10/11) 3-pp. (red ppr clip) letter to Robert Atwell of Pitzer College with NBW's thoughts on the goals of that college; (11/30) ditto last entry; (11/8) 2-pp. letter to Robert Donovan (LAT, DC bureau) on health problems of his wife, Elizabeth; (12/7) letter to Judge John Shidler, Torrance Superior Court; In 12/6 letter to Zena Guenin, NBW muses on the central problem of journalism, "wrestl(ing) with the issues in a way that its readers can understand and enjoy....Zest is what matters"; (12/6) letter to Ms. Price Hicks, Producer of "Citywatchers" (KCET-tv), discussing it and the role LAT staffers Champlin and Seidenbaum played; (12/6) letter to John Vasconcellos in which NBW's says of his politics, "(I'm) a moderate conservative, (but) try hardest to be an idealistic pragmatist"; (12/31) brief letter to Mayor Sam Yorty; etc.
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Chronological File - December
Manuscripts
Approx. 110 items. Letters and memos. Subjects include: response to Clark Mollenhoff, Special White House Counsel, who apparently wrote complaining of something written about him or Nixon administration in general that he did not like ; 8th Annual Editorial Awards Dinner; coverage of middle east problems; letters to J. Edward Murray, Editor, Arizona Republic; Angela Davis and Eldridge Cleaver--qualified to teach at UCLA? ; letter to Robert Rowan, Pres., Pasadena Art Museum; NBW defends LAT against reader charge that it has "publicized" Sen. Edward Kennedy and responses to others who seem to object to coverage of Kennedy; furor over ads for "An Evening of Dirty Plays"; letter to William F. Buckley, Jr., etc.
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Chronological File - August
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Approx. 85 items. Letters / memos. Subjects include: add Newsday columnist Nick Thimmensch to LAT; gun registration, gun control; NBW's letter inviting Sheriff Peter Pitchess to speak to Twilight Club, a Pasadena-area group of "movers & shakers"; response to a letter from Bishop James Pike (8/7/1969) written a month before Pike's death in desert near Dead Sea; letter to William Loeb, Publisher, Manchester Union Leader; letter to U.S. Rep. Chet Holifield (re: Fenner Canyon Job Corps facility); form letters to readers who questioned a photo of Nixon and Sen. Ted Kennedy together; letter to Norton Simon, head of Hunt Foods/philanthropist); several cover letters that went with copies of "what Yuri Zhukov wrote in Pravda about trip to the United States...(these) 6 articles will give you an exact picture of how the mind of a skilled Communist Russian editorialist works"; 2-pp. NBW memo to Otis Chandler on whether or not the American Society of Newspaper Editors can ever "assume any very serious role as an arbiter of what is good or bad in journalism"; more to readers on Conrad "serv(ing) a useful purpose"; letter to U.S. Circuit Judge Irving Kaufman; letters to staffers in the Southeast thanking them for great hurricane coverage; ABM (missiles); smog; NBW (form) letter to Warren Christopher inviting him to speak at The Twilight Club ; letter to U.S. Rep. Glenard Lipscomb; letter to Robert U. Brown, Publisher/Editor of Editor & Publisher, on why that publication ran a story on opinion writers "ideological swing" that portrays LAT columnists as being all liberals, and which NBW calls "damned poor journalism"; to Robert Finch, HEW Sec.; to State Sen. John Harmer on Indian affairs; etc.
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Watts Riots
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3 items: 2-pp. letter from L.A. Mayor Sam Yorty to Ed Ainsworth at LAT ; 5-pp. report, described as "the timetable of major phone calls to and from (Police Chief Parker's) office" related to riot response ; news clipping, Santa Barbara News-Press, 9/8/1965, "L.A. riots backlash seen as issue in governor race" ; news clipping, LAT, 11/10/1965, "Brown offers to help L.A. in crime battle."
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