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Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Approx. 75 items: letters sent to LAT complaining about various ads that upset readers for one reason or another. Several off the letters have attached tearsheets of newsprint.
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Manuscripts
Approx. 25 items, a wide array of materials: letters exhcnaged with the American Advertising Federation ; management memo on maltreatment of LAT reporters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention by Chicago Police ; a report on the LAT Suburban Sections ; more.
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Manuscripts
Approx. 25 items: dated 1/1968 through 11/1968, including org charts for LAT at-large, the Editorial Department, TM Newspapers Group, plus an Otis Chandler memo of 10/15/1968, on "restructuring of The Times functional organization."
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Approx. 30 items: wide array of memos relating to LAT policies. Only a small number of these memos relate directly to Advertising or Stickell's work.
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Approx. 95 items - complaint letters and responses on a wide range of subjects. Notable names and subjects: cigarette advertising ; X-rated motion picture advertising ; the Middle East conflict ; gun advertisments ; ads dealing with sexual health ; complaints that LAT seems to endorse marijuana use in an ad ; contraceptives ; The Joy of Sex ads ; more.
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Approx. 35 items: letters and postcards from readers complaining (some very pointedly) about the scented ads that were then being placed in LAT. Also included are a selection of LAT responses. Notable items: exchange of letters between author James M. Cain (author - The Postman Always Rings Twice), and W.G. Pfaffenberger, LAT Advertising Manager.
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