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Organization Charts
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Approx. 15 items: various versions of an "Editorial Organization Chart, including "Day," Night," "Editorial Pages" and "Sunday - Sections," also the overall Editorial organization headed by Nick B. Williams, dated 2/1963 through 12/1963.
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Editorial Objectives
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Approx. 40 items. Memos and other material related to changes, goals performance plans and objectives for Editorial. Guiding this process were Otis Chandler, Nick Williams, Frank Haven, Frank McCulloch, and others. Also included is the 1/15/1961 article written by Nick Williams on the new Times format.
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Speeches by LA Times Executives
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"1) A seventeen page transcript entitled "The Quality of our Environment: Responsibility of the News Media" by Irving S. Bengelsdorf, which was presented at The Conference on the Pediatric Significance of Peacetime Radioactive Fallout, San Diego, CA, March 15, 1966. 2) A seven page transcript given by Nick B. Williams at the Annual Ralph L. Crosman Memorial Lecture, at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado on April 15, 1966. 3) A seventeen page transcript entitled "The Los Angeles Times and the Newspaper Industry Presentation at Times Mirror Company Executive conference with Robert D. Nelson and Nick Williams." This speech was given my Otis Chandler on Wednesday, May 11, 1966."
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Employees - Williams, Nick B
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Approx. 35 items: in "Tribute to a renown...Editor, Nick B. Williams," at the time of his death, LAT columnist Jack Smith wrote that, "turned the Los Angeles Times from a biased, provincial, Republican newspaper, into one of the country's two or three best"; program booklet for "The Nick B. Williams Luncheon Party," Levy's Grill, 2/20/1959; 3-pp. transcript of speech at Women's Lawyers Club (1959), titled "Court News Policy," on the topic of a free press; selection of Williams' writings for a variety of publications--California Publisher, The Quill, California Parent -Teacher, etc. ;brief copy, Among Ourselves, 7/1948, on W's career, mentioning his fiction writing; single-page bio ; W's tear sheets, 1959 - 1971, from LAT; LAT clip, 10/28/1981, "Ex-Editor of Times receives press award": LAT Editorial, 7/2/1992, "In Memory of Nick B. Williams," which closes, "Nick Williams mark on The Times is indelible." Williams was with LAT for forty years, retiring in 1971, and after that working as a consultant for Otis Chandler.
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Otis Chandler
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Approx. 85 items: correspondence between Otis Chandler and business associates, principally Editor Nick Williams. Includes one long letter to Katherine Graham of the Washington Post (3/25/1965). Complete issue of Michigan Business Review of 3/1965, which features an article by Otis Chandler titled "The Outlook for Newspapers."
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Organization Charts
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6 items: one org. chart for LAT overall, headed by Otis Chandler, on oversize, heavy paper, plus a copy of same; several from the year for Editorial, headed by Nick B. Williams.
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