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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
Approx. 40 items. Memos and other material related to changes, goals performance plans and objectives for Editorial. Guiding this process were Otis Chandler, Nick Williams, Frank Haven, Frank McCulloch, and others. Also included is the 1/15/1961 article written by Nick Williams on the new Times format.
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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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3 items. Materials include: 3-pp. (small tan-colored sheets) random info and notes, typed 1944, on "Junior Times" and "Home Service," LAT sections that existed in 1891; memo from Tom Johnson to Exec. Comm. Group, 12/18/1979, opens "...proceed on plans to split our Daily VIEW section into two parts, VIEW and an arts-entertainment section, effective Jan. 21"; tear sheet, Among Ourselves, 2/1975, "A paper needs more than hard news: specialized sections are the answer."
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9 items. Materials include: AP story, 4/20/1939, "Daro's payoff to sports scribes bared"; copy of article, 8/1980, Los Angeles (mag), "Read all about 'em, sports fans -- inside the Times' highly touted sports section..."; Among Ourselves, 8/1974, "It no longer is just fun-and-games"; LAT clip, 2/12/1961, "Members of the All-Star team"; pg. 1 of the first ever separate LAT Sports section, 7/9/1956, two related copied sheets; LAT Sports-related briefs and memos.
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2 items: tear sheet of Nick B. Williams column, 9/17/1961, "Watch our finance section grow!"; copy of brief article explaining "Expanded financial, business coverage in today's Times," no byline, no date. Includes Predecessor Sections.
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Approx. 35 items: memos, letters, tear sheets, motes and other material related to LAT Exec. VP of Marketing Vance Stickell and his career.
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