Collection is unprocessed and CLOSED. Reviewed in May 2019, and determined that the material cannot be made safely available without processing. Please contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
The papare comprise correspondence, manuscripts, documents, articles, clippings, etc.
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Collection is unprocessed and CLOSED. Reviewed in May 2019, and determined that the material cannot be made safely available without processing. Please contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Lester Bernstein Papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
2015.2016.M136: Source of acquisition--Nina Bernstein | The New York Times. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--4/22/2016.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Collection-level record describing unprocessed material made public in summer 2018 as part of the Hidden Collections initiative.
Papers [processed, etc.] [initials here] mm/dd/yyyy.
Papers appraised appraiser [date].
Lester Bernstein was a former editor of Newsweek magazine who also wrote for The New York Times, was a foreign correspondent for Time magazine and, as a vice president of NBC in 1960, helped arrange America's first televised presidential debates. In a career spanning a half-century, Mr. Bernstein was a theater columnist for The Times; a Rome and London correspondent for Time; a senior Newsweek editor in the 1960s and '70s; and the magazine's chief editor from 1979 to 1982, when it won national awards for general excellence and in-depth reporting.
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