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Reference code
OBS/1/2/2/2/107
Title
Observer magazine - features
Date(s)
- 1970-1981 (Creation)
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1 file
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File concerns the development of the Observer colour magazine.
The file predominantly concerns costs, advertising and features. It contains correspondence and memorandums regarding: costs; features; advertising; royal wedding issue; book publishing; partworks; centre spreads; hand delivery of letters; features schedules; serilisation rights; advertising/editorial ratio; magazine cover; Young Observer; design changes; pullout sections; competition from the Sunday Times; new sections; page costs; competitions and the role of partworks.
Primary correspondents include: Roger Harrison; John Nuttall Smith; Brian Nicholson and Dick Hall.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Managing Director's Office; Roger Harrison
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- Harrison; Desmond Roger Wingate (1933-); managing director and chief executive of The Observer (Subject)
- Nuttall-Smith; John; Observer employee (Subject)
- Crookston; Peter Christian; journalist (Subject)
- Hall; Richard (1925-1997); journalist (Subject)
- Nicholson; Brian Thomas Graves (1930-); journalist and managing director of the Observer (Subject)
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