Series IX. General Files, 1945-2000, inclusive

Administrative Files include material to educate Corporate Public Affairs on Time Inc. activities and to assist staff on writing press releases and other communications regarding the activities. Records include financial and security analyst meeting agenda; briefing books, president's speeches, photographs, and questions and answers for the stockholders' annual meetings; background information and progress updates on joint ventures; background information, fact sheets, and press releases on Time Inc. publications, public programs, and departments; magazine media and advertising kits; and news clippings.

The administrative files are primarily from Slovinsky, but also include files or materials from Donald Wilson, Kerr, Pitt, Kapner, public affairs senior associate Ed Adler, and press information manager Michael Luftman. These files may have been inherited by Slovinsky, filed together by an office worker in Corporate Public Affairs prior to transfer to the Time Inc. Archives, or filed together by the Time Inc. Archives after receipt. For example, earlier Analyst Meeting and Stockholder Meeting files from Pitt were housed with later similarly titled files from Slovinsky. While the speeches folders have material similar to the Chief Speechwriter series, this material looks like it was collected by Slovinsky or a different part of Corporate Public Affairs and not the Chief Speechwriter.

Items of interest include a 1970 plan for pre-recorded video; a 1972 title list for Time-Life Video; photographs of a 1972 stockholders meeting; and a collection of letters from a campaign by the striking workers of the International Paper Androscoggin Mill in Maine.

Unreformatted audiovisual and digital material in the collection is not accessible.

Annual Reports contains copies of the annual reports and press releases announcing Time Inc.'s net profits. The 1976 file includes correspondence about the production of the report. The 1978 file has drafts of CEO Andrew Heiskell's statement.

Dinner Books contains copies of the booklets published to commemorate the dinners held honoring the outgoing and incoming editors-in-chief of Time Inc. The booklets contain texts of the speeches given at the events.

Press Releases includes press releases on various divisions and publications of Time Inc. Earlier files were divided by tabs into Corporate, Broadcast, Books, and Time-Life Records. Later files cover Corporate, Time-Life Films, Books, Time-Life Video, publications like Money, and subsidiaries such as Sterling Communications. Press releases from 1975 to 1978 were removed in 1980 and are represented by an out card. Press releases from 1999 to 2000 are on microfilm. The dates refer to the original materials and not the date of microfilm creation.

Scrapbooks contain press releases, copies of correspondence, and news clippings on the subject. The Chicago Time & Life Building scrapbooks include some photographs and architectural drawings.

Weekly News Clippings contains packets of copied news clips for distribution regarding magazines, departments, or subsidiaries of Time Inc. Many packets include cover sheets showing they were compiled by Louis Slovinsky.

Weekly Press Reports are a continuation of the news clippings packets, but on microfilm. The dates refer to the original material and not the date of microfilm creation. Not all months or years within the range are present. Overlapping dates with the physical packets may mean there is some duplication.

News clippings in the Time Inc. Publicity Files (MS 3009-RG 46) may have been an earlier version of this practice of compilation.