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FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 424(b)(3)
REGISTRATION NO. 333-34691
PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT TO PROSPECTUS DATED SEPTEMBER 9, 1997
THE TIMES MIRROR COMPANY
Series A Common Stock
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The Shares of Series A Common Stock may be offered for sale and sold by
pledgees, donees, transferees or other successors in interest of the several
Selling Stockholders in the same manner as the shares of Series A Common Stock
may be offered for sale and sold by the Selling Stockholders. Any provisions
applicable to the Selling Stockholders set forth in the Plan of Distribution on
page 13 of this Prospectus shall be applicable to pledgees, donees, transferees
or other successors in interest of the several Selling Stockholders, as if they
were one and the same.
The date of this Prospectus Supplement is December 17, 1997
