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Nelson, Robert
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Polls and Surveys
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Approx. 35 items: notes, letters and forms related to polls and surveys. Items include: 25-pp. booklet, "Trends and attitudes toward television and other media - a twenty-four year review" (1983) ; exchanges of letters with important editors of major newspapers, including Ben Bradlee (Wash. Post) and A.M. Rosenthal (N.Y. Times) ; 25-pp. questionnaire titled "A Reagan Retrospective," used in 1982 ; many pieces of correspondence, a brown folder and a booklet on TELACU ; etc. (TELACU officials objected to methods used by LAT staffers in preparing a series on TELACU.
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Nelson, Robert
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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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Haven, Frank
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Approx. 30 items. Memos and letters. Subjects include: balance in the Opinion section; news stories mentioning members of the Chandler family or details of Times-Mirror's corporate operations; press run changes, timing of various editions; changes to Fashion and Family sections; allegations of Lyndon Johnson "swinging" work to Texas firms; reduced travel budgets; stories on thalidomide the death of Marilyn Monroe; continuation of Ayn Rand column; automated Western Union copy; upgrading the three news desks and the copy desk; out-of-state election coverage; brief profiles of "men in the news"; etc.
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Nelson, Robert
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Approx. 35 items. Letters, memos, newspaper clippings. Subjects include: Calendar "make-up"; Saturday edition issues; more dialog about book reviews; running of an ad related to Alan Ginsberg; advertising censorship; cafeteria price increases; food service policy; ads bought by the Church of Jesus Christ-Christian; fleet cars & accidents involving fleet cars; etc.
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Employees - Nelson, Robert D
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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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Departments - Editorial - Calendar Section
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5 items. Materials include: LAT memo (8/22/1960) from Edw. Reap, Promotion, to James Toland, Sunday Editorial, on the soon to be published "first issue of the new entertainment tabloid CALENDAR..."; copy of article from Among Ourselves, 10/1966, "Calendar has new look, new columnist"; tear sheet of "Calendar - Letters" for 6/28/1987, featuring a selection of letters critical of the "Calendar" section; 3-pp. report headed "Sunday Calendar Redesign," 7/1994; article copied from Lifestyle Media-Relations Reporter, 9/5/1994, "Los Angeles Times Calendar Eds: Home Entertainment, Family Fun," mentions staffers Sherry Stern, Susan Freudenheim, Anne Hurley and John Lindsay.
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