Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
2 items: two letters, 1964, from Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York to Mr. and Mrs. Norman Chandler. Letters removed from Autograph File and returned to Norman Chandler papers.
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Ten items which include five letters from Nelson Rockefeller to Otis Chandler, a response letter from Otis Chandler to Nelson Rockefeller, two telegrams regarding Rockefeller and Hugh Morrow visiting the Los Angeles Times, a memo from Freddie Miller, and a two page memo from Otis Chandler to the Times Executives regarding how to handle any comments, questions and accusations regarding the [Nelson A.] Rockefeller editorial.
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Approx. 40 items. Letters, memos, handwritten notes, newspaper clippings. Subjects include: supervisors' rotation assignments; relationship between advertising side and editorial; outside praise for Harry Nelson; Special Issues: Arizona & NY World's Fair; American Red Cross; Savings & Loan industry; more thought on Sunday supplements--book section, a (local interest) magazine, etc.; "Prestige Car" section; Memo: "Jim Murray detests making speeches"; Democratic Natl. Committee advertising section; 7-pp. manuscript by Robert Nelson, LAT General Manager, titled "Let's put the Newspaper Rate Controversy in Proper Perspective; Automobile fleet policy; Nelson letter to Gene Williams of KLAC radio on coverage of 1964 Presidential candidates that includes the statement: "...all of us here at the Times...are as staunch Republicans as anyone you know."; in-house praise for Art Buchwald; commentary on FBI; etc.
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Two letters of correspondence between Otis Chandler and Dorothy W. Nelson, Dean and Professor of Law at the Law Center at USC.
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4 items: LAT clip, 7/23/1944, "Gene Sherman to cover Pacific for The Times"; Copy of LAT editorial, 7/19/1959, "A start on narcotic control"; 10-pp. reprint package, "Mexican monkey on our back," a series of 8 articles by Gene Sherman on narcotics traffic; single-sheet bio, "Biography -- Gene Sherman (ca. 1963).
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4 items: letter, 5/7/1976, "From the desk of...June Duff," addressed to "John," pitching an article or news release she had written; copy of press release, Amer. Marketing Assn., 5/1976, on Robert D. Nelson receiving the 1976 Marketer of the Year Award from the L.A. Chapter of the Amer. Marketing Assn.; official Biography from the Los Angeles Times for Nelson, 7/1976, Nelson was, at that time, exec. VP and GM of LAT, plus a VP of Times Mirror Co.; 9-pp. transcript of undated interview headed "L.A. Times -- Bob Nelson -- R#10."
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