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PHIL
TOWNSEND HANNA
Phil Townsend Hanna, public relations counselor, was born in Los Angeles, California, on August 24, 1896; son of Philip and Florence (Townsend) Hanna. He was a student at the University of Southern California, 1912-14.
Mr. Hanna was auto editor of the Los Angeles Tribune in 1915; reporter and editor on Los Angeles Express and Los Angeles Times, 1916-17; editor of Associated Press, 1917-20; editor of Western Journal Company, trade papers, 1920-27; editor of Westways since 1927. He has been public relations counsel for Auto Club of Southern California since 1940.
Founder and vice chairman of Wine and Food Society of Los Angeles; founder of Society of Public Relations Counsellors; trustee of Southwest Museum; director of Friends of Huntington Library; director of Historical Society of Southern California; member of the following clubs: Sunset, California, Chaparral, Sigma Delta Chi; National Press (Washington, D.C.).
Mr. Hanna is the author of “Libros Californianos,” 1933; “California Through Four Centuries,” 1935; “California Under Twelve Flags,” 1937; “Dictionary of California Land Names,” 1947; editor of Map of Exploration in the Spanish Southwest; Chinigchinich, a Gil Blas in California (Alexandre Dumas); “Los Angeles in the Sunny Seventies” (Ludwig Salvator); “Lost and Living Cities of the California Gold Rush” (Philip Johnson).
Offices: 2601 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles 54, California.
Transcribed: 4-7-14 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Eminent
Californians 1953, by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 324, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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