Manuscripts

Nelson, Robert

Description: Approx. 25 items. Subjects include: Stan Freberg's Chun King chinese food commercials; Food section in general; mentions of Times-Mirror in other media; Zone Office facilities; press times for various editions; travel advertising; department stores' attitudes toward Times staffers; launching a book section; Marilyn Monroe death coverage; Ad Club of Los Angeles; Milton Valera- aspiring journalist; etc.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1962
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Nelson, Robert

Manuscripts

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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Nelson, Robert

Manuscripts

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

Manuscripts

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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Nelson, Robert D. Files

Manuscripts

Robert D. Nelson was the Los Angeles Times General Manager in 1975. Items all dated 1975.

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From Readers

Manuscripts

Twenty-two letters comprising 63 pages, pertaining to reader's correspondence. Some of the topics include photo policy, Nixon ridicule, Watergate, Los Angeles Times competition, comics (Doonesbury, Peanuts, and Emy Lou, including a letter from the artist Marty Links), Harry Trimborh, Tomas Fitch an Los Angeles Times Writer, Gerald Ford, Marilyn Chandler, editorial policy, subscription cancellation, subscription rate for Australia, Los Angeles Times Orange County edition, syndicate contracts and central section.

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Suburban Sections (Zones) (1 of 2)

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items. Materials include: 44-pp. spiral-bound report by Ron Haggart, Canadian author of uncertain affiliation, "The Los Angeles Times and the Suburbs," April 1967; various clippings/copies of suburban section and "Among Ourselves" stories; large packet (50+ pp.) of charts and analysis of LAT, OC edition, and suburban editions operations; assorted maps, charts and statistical information related to these operations, from the 1950s to the 1970s; copy of article from American Journalism Review, 11/1993, "A Zone of Their Own" on the new zoned section covering "central city"; three-pp. report,"Development of (LAT) Zone Sections and Editions," in the form of a chronology; two-pp. report titled "Westside Section History" (3/31/88); article, probably from "Among Ourselves" newsletter, titled "Zone offices pull together a decentralized area," (no date seen). Split into two folders.

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