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: undated, single-sheet bio for Harry Nelson, beginning "Nelson has been medical editor of the Los Angeles Times since December 1958..."; LAT tear sheet, 9/5/1977, promotional ad for LAT headed "Signs of The Times," with text segment mentioning "Times medical writer Harry Nelson..."
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2 items: 52-pp. transcript of interview by Marshall Berges with Jack Nelson, Washington DC Bureau Chief, 8/1/1980. A second transcript of the same material, with mark-outs and corrections is on tan sheets. Notable names and subjects include: Nelson describes his typical day and week (pp. 1 - 10) ; he comments on the new respect given in the 1970s to Los Angeles Times in Washington (pp. 17) ; Nelson recalls his childhood, youth and military service (pp. 19 - 20) ; hired by Atlanta Constitution in 1952 ; winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1959 and applies for a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard (for 1962) ; Nelson is hired in 1965 to open the Atlanta Bureau of Los Angeles Times (pp. 21 - 22) ; more about his youth (pp. 24 - 26) ; "the Los Angeles Times as an institution is...very open and candid" (pp. 30) ; relations between home office of Los Angeles Times and DC Bureau (pp. 37) ; Los Angeles Times top brass wanted Nelson to be a "writing bureau chief," and that was the way he wanted it, too ; discusses strengths and weaknesses of colleagues. (There are gaps in the transcript from pp. 49 on but it is not clear if they are recording flaws or something taken out in editing.
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Approx. 15 items: tear sheet, Herald-Examiner, 4/5/1988, "L.A.Times appoints Shelby Coffey to new executive editor post"; tear sheet, NY Times, 4/6/1988, "Los Angeles Times names heir apparent to the Editor's job"; Employee Bulletin, 4/5/1988, with Tom Johnson's announcement of Coffey selection; various publications' reporting on above appointment and other career moves, incl. L.A. Weekly, The American Editor, etc; multi-page tear sheet, Esquire, 12/1988, "Shelby Coffey, Oozing Charm"; approx. 25 -pp. transcript of Coffey's remarks, including Q&A, at LAT Washington Bureau, 6/10/1988;
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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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7 items: article, Among Ourselves, 10/1966, "James Bellows joins Times (as Associate Editor)"; 10/28/1966, Otis Chandler's memo on appointment of Bellows as LAT Associate Editor; article copy, New West, 1/16/1978, "What's black and blue...", on Jim Bellow's becoming editor of L.A. Herald-Examiner ; tear sheet, 8/1/1978, Esquire, "Can Jim Bellows Save...(Herald-Exam.)"; tear sheet, LAT, 11/20/1981, "Editor of Herald Examiner resigns..."; tear sheet, LAT, 7/13/1983, "Bellows will develop a TV magazine for ABC"; tear sheet, LAT, 10/13/1988, "USA Today TV sets different direction";
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Approx. 55 items: a partial list of folder contents is headed "LM 8/78...FOLDER 9C.6 CONTAINS...", this provides the titles and sources article tear sheets and copies. Some items not included on the list are: reprint of "Song of the Southwest," by Lawrence Clark Powell, Westways, 1/1973; numerous clippings from LAT and Among Ourselves about Lummis; several essays by Lummis; original of Harvard Alumni Bulletin, 10/14/1967, cover story is "The West's Incomparable 'Don Carlos'," pp. 16-23; original of Southern California Heritage (publ. by Historical Soc. of So. Cal.), 5/1985, "Charles F. Lummis Centennial - The Celebration"; Copies of the Foreword, Introduction, cover and several chapters of Charles F. Lummis - Crusader in Corduroy, by Dudley Gordon, who was duly written about in LAT by his neighbor, Jack Smith; discussions of Lummis' writings by Lawrence Clark Powell, Kevin Starr, and others; original of Charles F. Lummis - the Centennial Exhibition, publ. in 1985 by LAT, Times Mirror, and Calif. Council for the Humanities; tear sheet, Westways, 1/1970, "California Classics Reread - The Land of Sunshine,' by Lawrence Clark Powell. Split into three folders.
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