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Simon, Norton
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Simon, Norton
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A one page letter to Norton Simon from James Bellows
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Promotion
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Approx. 15 items: notes, memos, letters and reports related to Promotion at LAT. Includes: multi-page list from 1977 of "daily delivery candidates" (movers and shakers who, it is suggested, should receive a copy of LAT each day, gratis) ; other material related to Promotion.
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Los Angeles City Government
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Approx. 12 items. Subjects include: letters from Police Chief W.H. Parker and Mayor Norris Poulson; guest list of a business conference at Soboba Hot Springs called by Mayor Poulson; LAT memos and reports on taxes, municipal services, etc.; a report titled "The St. Louis Story" on a 1954 meeting of businesspersons in St. Louis sponsored by Civic Progress, a community organization of 21 members--"movers and shakers"--chaired by August Busch, Pres. of Anheuser-Busch brewing.
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Employees - Nelson, Jack
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5 items: single yellow sheet, undated, headed "Jack Nelson questions," related to Watergate and coverage of Wash., DC in general since 1970; article copy, 11/20/1974, on Nelson taking charge at DC bureau; tear sheet, "Keeping up with The Times, 3/7/1975, on addition of Oswald Johnson, Jr., and Gaylord Shaw to the DC bureau staff; tear sheet, Newsweek, 1/24/1977, "Media insiders," which is, in part, about Nelson; 1982 tear sheet, publ. unknwn, "Movers & shakers" column brief on Nelson.
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Miller, Freddie
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1 item: 31-pp. transcript of interview with "Freddie" Miller, long-time administrative aide to Otis Chandler . Notable names and subjects include: her childhood and youth (pp. 2 - 8) ; she started at LAT in 1960 when Otis Chandler became publisher ; feedback from the John Birch Society series was one of her first big assignments - draft replies for Otis Chandler (pp. 14 - 15) ; her recollections of the day Norman Chandler died and she aided the family (pp. 19) ; daily activities (pp. 20 - 23) ; OC elected to Board of Associated Press (pp. 29 - 30).
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Chronological File - August
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Approx. 85 items. Letters / memos. Subjects include: add Newsday columnist Nick Thimmensch to LAT; gun registration, gun control; NBW's letter inviting Sheriff Peter Pitchess to speak to Twilight Club, a Pasadena-area group of "movers & shakers"; response to a letter from Bishop James Pike (8/7/1969) written a month before Pike's death in desert near Dead Sea; letter to William Loeb, Publisher, Manchester Union Leader; letter to U.S. Rep. Chet Holifield (re: Fenner Canyon Job Corps facility); form letters to readers who questioned a photo of Nixon and Sen. Ted Kennedy together; letter to Norton Simon, head of Hunt Foods/philanthropist); several cover letters that went with copies of "what Yuri Zhukov wrote in Pravda about trip to the United States...(these) 6 articles will give you an exact picture of how the mind of a skilled Communist Russian editorialist works"; 2-pp. NBW memo to Otis Chandler on whether or not the American Society of Newspaper Editors can ever "assume any very serious role as an arbiter of what is good or bad in journalism"; more to readers on Conrad "serv(ing) a useful purpose"; letter to U.S. Circuit Judge Irving Kaufman; letters to staffers in the Southeast thanking them for great hurricane coverage; ABM (missiles); smog; NBW (form) letter to Warren Christopher inviting him to speak at The Twilight Club ; letter to U.S. Rep. Glenard Lipscomb; letter to Robert U. Brown, Publisher/Editor of Editor & Publisher, on why that publication ran a story on opinion writers "ideological swing" that portrays LAT columnists as being all liberals, and which NBW calls "damned poor journalism"; to Robert Finch, HEW Sec.; to State Sen. John Harmer on Indian affairs; etc.
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