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
Approx. 45 items, including: memos, letters, notes, charts and other material related to General Manager Robert Nelson. Much of the material in the file consists of memos to or from Nelson.
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Manuscripts
Approx. 15 items. Memos and letters. Subjects include: LAT hiring of Jack Nelson (who had been with Atlanta Constitution; LAT plans to open Atlanta bureau; letter and personal bio from Nelson to Frank Haven, LAT Managing Editor); several Nelson clips from Atlanta Constitution; correspondence related to a racially-charged story (1969); Nelson letter in which he writes "I stand by the [aforementioned] story as it was written;
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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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Approx. 40 items: memos, lists, article copies and other material related to LAT Pulitzer Prize entries for 1981.
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Approx. 25 items: memos, letters and reports related to West magazine, 1968. Notable items include: 15-pp. report, "WEST Magazine... Readership and Reader Attitudes," 4/1968 ; several long memos from Stickell to Robert D. Nelson, and/or Otis Chandler and/or Nick Williams.
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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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