When Chandler was growing up, he lived with his parents on a 10-acre citrus ranch in Sierra Madre. His sudden elevation and his record as an athlete, not a scholar, at Stanford, led some members of the family (and their friends) to openly wonder if he had the intellectual capacity to run The Times. Otis and Williams perhaps the ablest newspaper editor of his generation, in Halberstams words became a formidable team. When Burke asked Chandler if hed like to invest in his company and introduce Burke to other potential investors among the publishers wealthy friends Chandler was happy to comply. During Willes brief tenure as publisher he relinquished the job to Kathryn Downing in 1999 so he could concentrate his energies on Times Mirror he did initiate a number of controversial strategies designed to increase Times circulation and advertising revenue. Goodwin J. Knight. A go-anywhere, ride-any-wave surfer for more than 60 years, Chandler also hunted big game on safaris, raced high-speed cars and motorcycles on official tracks and urban freeways and was always looking for new challenges, preferably those with some measure of risk. Father of Private; Michael Otis "Mike" Chandler; Norman Brant Chandler; Private and Private When many top Times executives proved either reluctant to change or incapable of meeting his standards after he became publisher, he replaced 22 of 23 department heads within the first year. When he strides out of a meeting to shake hands, it is like looking up at a California redwood., Anthony Day, The Times editorial page editor from 1971 until 1989, once said: After I had been working for Otis for a few years, it occurred to me that I was working for a prince, a man who had been raised to be a prince.. In October 1999, The Times published a special issue of its Sunday magazine devoted entirely to Staples Center, the sports arena and entertainment venue then about to open in downtown Los Angeles. [1], A sprained wrist kept him from competing as a shot putter for the United States in the 1952 Summer Olympics. Going with newspapers only is a flawed strategy, a dangerous philosophy that puts The Times at risk. He was the fourth and final member of the Chandler family to hold the paper's top position. Not once did the article refer to Brown by name. Perelman once wrote that while traveling through the western United States by train, he asked a porter to bring him a newspaper and unfortunately, the poor man, hard of hearing, brought me the Los Angeles Times.. Thats when I decided this was the business for me.. When stories in local alternative weeklies, followed by the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, disclosed details of the deal, the newsroom erupted in protest, circulating petitions and demanding an apology from Downing, the publisher, who had signed the original founding partner agreement. Chandler died at his home in Ojai about 4 a.m., according to Tom Johnson, a former publisher of The Times who was acting as a spokesman for the family. My style was to do the job and push the boundaries, and once Otis realized I knew what I was doing, he let me do it, Thomas said. Chandler said the move would help allay the concerns of readers who, mindful of the papers partisan history, find it hard to believe that this newspapers editorial page endorsements really dont affect the news columns.. But Thomas said it really didnt take much persuasion, because he really did want to go., Chandler himself said: I think some of the family members and some of the corporate people were hoping I would step aside although I dont recall that there was strong pressure.. The two married in 1922, and had two children, Camilla and Otis, both born in 1927. In 1958, the paper had covered the governors race between Republican William F. Knowland and Democrat Edmund G. Pat Brown in its traditional way: Browns campaign was virtually ignored while Knowlands was championed. Chandler immediately excelled, breaking the school freshman record with a toss of 48 feet, 761/47 inches. A tribute will be held at The Times at a later date for Times staff, as well as retirees from the paper and the Times Mirror Corp. [1], Chandler died at his home in Ojai at the age of 78 due to the effects of Lewy body disease, seven months after his diagnosis. People who knew the Chandlers well say Otis first wife was enormously competitive. Williams wrote a new one, warning that the Birchers extremism and smear tactics were subversive acts that could sow distrust and weaken the very strong case for conservatism. Chandler signed it and published it on Page 1. He told me several times, and other people, that no Chandler would again be publisher of The Times, he added, and I thought that was a curious thing to say, especially since some of the Chandler children seemed perfectly suited to be publisher, at least as suited as Otis.. In 1995, at age 68, he crashed his motorcycle into a tractor while in New Zealand. Married Harry Chandler . Many had led quietly productive lives outside the newspaper industry and had tried to keep their complaints about cousin Otis and The Times within the family circle. Since his first run for Congress in 1946, he had been championed by The Times as he successfully ran for U.S. Senate and then for the vice presidency on the Eisenhower ticket. Chandler and his editor, Williams, lured reporters away from the Wall Street Journal, the New York Daily News, the Washington Star, BusinessWeek and U.S. News & World Report. Jack Burke, Chandlers close friend since their days together at Stanford, had assembled an exploratory oil-drilling company called GeoTek in the late 1960s and early 70s. Although Halberstam would later say, No single family dominates any other region of this country as the Chandlers have dominated California, Otis had a far-from-pampered upbringing and was never a man who could be described as effete. If a newspaper, even a great newspaper like the Los Angeles Times, loses credibility with its community, with its readers, with its advertisers, with its shareholders, that is probably the most serious circumstance that I can possibly envision. . When Chandler took the job, the paper had only two outside offices. [1], "Oats" was Chandler's nickname within the family. Was the daughter of General Harrison Gray Otis and Secretary of the Times-Mirror Company (formerly the publishing company of the Los Angeles Times ). He remained an avid reader of the paper. Well into his 70s, he maintained a long-distance bicycling regimen that few people half his age could attempt. When he was with you, he was really with you, Harry said. Doctors estimated that his dislocated right arm would never fully heal, but, citing a disciplined training regimen, Chandler claimed to regain virtually all use. This was the only big investment I ever made, and I didnt do any investigation of it beforehand. At a time when newspapers were becoming increasingly vulnerable to competition from the Internet, television, direct mail and other sources for information and advertising, Willes said it was imperative that they market themselves more aggressively and improve journalistically to make themselves more relevant to readers and more valuable to advertisers. That article deeply wounded some of the 160-odd descendants of Otis grandfather, family patriarch Harry Chandler. Contact Information The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, CA 91108, Phone: (626) 405-2191; Email: reference@huntington.org, www.huntington.org Access-restricted-item true Addeddate Research genealogy for Otis Chandler of Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, as well as other members of the Chandler family, on Ancestry. Katharine Graham, who became publisher of the Washington Post three years after Chandler took over The Times, and who relied on him as a mentor in her first days on the job, said in a 1999 interview the day after her 82nd birthday, when she was still very much involved with the Post Im so committed to the company and so is Punch [former New York Times Publisher Sulzberger] that I cant imagine one of us actually leaving. Born in Los Angeles on Nov. 23, 1927, Chandler was the only son of Norman Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler. By the time of graduation, he weighed 200 pounds. [1] So did the shutdown in January 1962 of the Mirror and the Examiner, the morning Hearst newspaper. Three top editors asked Boyarsky not to read the statement aloud, fearing that it would further provoke an already enraged staff. Chandlers wife, Bettina, was with him. ADVERTISEMENT BY ANCESTRY.COM. But he also had a princes sense of entitlement, a sense that perhaps I dont have to do this every damn day, he added. Readers could be excused for thinking that only one political party existed in Southern California. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. This was a flagrant violation of the independence of the editorial department, and it placed the credibility of the paper in jeopardy. [1][2], After graduation, Chandler tried to enroll in an Air Force training program, but was turned down because he was too large to fit in the cockpit of a jet. Thats why we diversified the company and went into television and cable and forest products and books and medical and legal publishing.. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. He finished second in the nation, third in the heavyweight division at the national weightlifting championships that year. Arthur O. Sulzberger, who was then publisher of the New York Times, said that although he initially shared his colleagues surprise and disappointment when Chandler left, I later realized that I shouldnt have been so surprised. And it became clear over the years that he did not have any such intention. Would I have wanted to stay, given what was happening at The Times and Times Mirror? Chandler asked a year after stepping down. One had only to visit the mens room in his car and wildlife museum its walls covered with posters of scantily clad women draped over shiny sports cars to realize that his ultra-masculinity wasnt limited to guns, barbells, fast cars and motorcycles. The stories described the Birchers extremist tactics and positions and, largely through their own words, depicted them as a threat to, rather than a defender of, the American way of life. Who can help student-athletes cash in? Otis Chandler in MyHeritage family trees (Sturtevant Web Site) view all 15 Immediate Family Diana Chandler mother Asa Chandler, Jr. father Cynthia Bailey sister Emily (Chandler) Washburn sister Diana Chandler sister Noah Chandler, I brother Lucinda Chandler sister Laura Chandler sister Martin Chandler brother David Chandler brother George Chandler For several years, the pair had enjoyed a Saturday ritual. 1 child. Having been rebuffed by Willes in a spring 1999 inquiry about buying Times Mirror, Tribune executives went around him several months later and dealt directly with Chandler family members and their representatives. I was just told to be at the Biltmore an hour early for a civic luncheon.. Chandler would assume the newly created position of editor in chief of Times Mirror and, on Jan. 1, 1981, he would succeed Murphy as chairman. I was a B student.). Chandler was raised to share his family's distaste for labor unions, a tradition that favored the family's financial interests. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. It could be said that the anti-Otis crowd beat up on him so much that he just gave up, said former editorial page editor Day. As it turned out, however, several members of the Chandler family had begun to share Otis disenchantment with Willes, especially the companys lack of diversification, interest in new media and long-term strategic plan, as Chandlers sister, Camilla Chandler Frost, put it the morning the sale to Tribune was announced. He was convinced that he had taken The Times about as far as he could, and he wanted more challenges and more freedom. It may sound strange for a Chandler to say this, he said in one such conversation, but I dont think my family and the other people running the company are looking ahead enough to the Internet and other new media. That perception embarrassed Chandler, and when he took over as publisher a few years later, it became the driving force behind his commitment to remake The Times. He surfed. You transformed the entire staff, he said, and the whole place had a totally different attitude.. Despite his family's wealth, Chandler's father insisted that he perform field labor and did not spoil him with gifts. Many people wondered if, in retrospect, Chandlers entire tenure at The Times had compromised his passion for freedom if he would have been happier had he been outside all the time, surfing, hunting, riding and racing, instead of being stuffed into a suit, sitting behind a desk, making speeches and attending meetings. Buffum), Michael Otis "mike" Chandler, Norman Brant Chandler, From http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2010/09/found-on-ebay-norman-chandler.html, From http://www.laopera.org/tickets/Plan-Your-Visit/About-the-Music-Center/Dorothy-Buffum-Chandler/, U.S. Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007. The paper's Sunday magazine on October 10, 1999, was a special issue dedicated to the new Staples Center sports arena in downtown L.A., home to the Lakers, Clippers and Kings. [1], His son, Mike Chandler, was a race-car driver in the CART Championship Car series. I think he fears that he would die if he werent building something.. He broke the freshman school record with a toss of 48 feet (15m), 761/47inches. For most of the first 80 years of its existence, the paper was such a journalistic laughingstock that humorist S.J. Surely, Chandler was the only publisher of his or any generation to have been profiled not only in Time, Newsweek and Editor & Publisher but in such magazines as Road & Track, Strength and Health, and Safari Club and to be depicted on the cover of the Atlantic Monthly in his bathing suit, riding a surfboard made of newspapers through the curl of a massive whitecap of dollar bills. He withdrew from Dartmouth and moved to Los Angeles for his health. Chandler continued to meet regularly with Puerner and John Carroll, who became editor of The Times shortly after the Tribune purchased the paper and remained in that position until last summer. Otis Chandler (November 23, 1927 - February 27, 2006) was the publisher of the Los Angeles Times between 1960 and 1980, leading a large expansion of the newspaper and its ambitions. After the guide missed his shot and fled, Chandler shot the elephant when it was only 10 yards away, preventing himself and his wife from being trampled. The 1962 gubernatorial campaign was another. In lieu of flowers, the family asked that donations be made to the Boys and Girls Clubs, the Central Coast chapter of the Alzheimers Association in Santa Barbara, or the Livingston Memorial Visiting Nurse Association/Hospice of Ventura. During Chandlers first year as publisher, the paper ran one of the most important series in its history, stories that helped define the new Los Angeles Times. His son was perfectly willing, indeed eager, to do and spend whatever was necessary to achieve journalistic respectability. At 71, he resumed playing tennis. They told me Id have to learn to do everything left-handed., With characteristic tenacity, Chandler exercised the arm rigorously, and six months later he could lift it over his head. When The Times consistently provided editorial support for various downtown redevelopment projects, civic activists were quick to say the projects would enhance the value of the Chandler familys real estate interests there. Chandler attributed his pursuit of solo athletics like shotputting and weightlifting to the same sources, saying, "No one could say that the team carried me or that the coach put me in because my name was Chandler". His remarks were reported in publications from coast to coast. He lifted weights three times a week in his home gym. (Little) Chandler. Over time, Chandler and others said, that began to wear on him. By all accounts, the family enjoyed their outdoor experiences together, for Chandler focused on his children as intensely as he did on everything else that mattered in his life. Many invested with Burke, who raised more than $30 million among 2,200 individuals over eight years. Otis Chandler at the Los Angeles Times in 2003 with a photo of his mother, Dorothy Chandler, in the backgorund. The New York Times even published an editorial under the headline The Truth According to Otis Chandler.. Otis Chandler (November 23, 1927 - February 27, 2006) was the publisher of the Los Angeles Times between 1960 and 1980, leading a large expansion of the newspaper and its ambitions. But after about 18 months, I accepted an invitation to his house for dinner, and when I drove up to this huge mansion in San Marino, I thought, Holy cow! When I got inside, I said, Well, just what do you do at The Times?.. Otis Family Trees, Crests, Genealogy, DNA, More add your favorite Website (s) to this page! They said I might be able to lift my hand to my mouth, but just barely and only after two years and only if I exercised it properly, he recalled. Despite that, Chandler did not envision journalism as a career during his youth; instead, he often said he would like to become a doctor. He eventually recovered from serious head injuries. He lived out one of his fathers fantasies when he became a professional race car driver, but nearly died in 1984 when his car slammed into a wall at the Indianapolis 500. Le Dowling arbre gnalogique avec les parents d'undemi-million, contient des milliers de photos et plus d'un millierGeneaStars. Chandler re-entered the public eye in 1999 when he publicly criticized the LA Times for creating a special issue of its Sunday magazine dedicated to the new Staples Center in downtown LA when the paper shared a financial interest in the property. Chandlers grandfather and father followed Gen. Otis in the publishers chair. [1], On a 1964 safari in Mozambique, an elephant charged his party. Research genealogy for Otis Chandler of Mingo, West Virginia, as well as other members of the Chandler family, on Ancestry. Otis Chandler will go down as one of the most important figures in newspaper history, said Dean Baquet, editor of the Los Angeles Times. When he started buying vintage cars again several years later, he purchased another 1931 Duesenberg, this time for $1.2 million, en route to building another world-class collection. Norman, the eldest, went through an executive training program and rose to be composing superintendent a position overseeing much of the physical production of the paper before leaving in 1989, when he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. Regardless, Chandler welcomed the outcome, largely because of his dissatisfaction with the existing management of Times-Mirror. Chandler was never a meddler or an intruder. He died in 2002. Its not their kind of newspaper, he said. He worked out daily, lifting weights in a gym he had built at The Times and improvising when he was traveling. He expected the very best of himself and of those around him.. He saw them both as restraints on his freedom. Some critics felt that his zeal for national recognition led The Times to underemphasize local news, particularly about minority communities. The night he arrived home, his young familys possessions crammed into a used station wagon and rented trailer, his mother and father welcomed him enthusiastically. Norman Chandler, then near his 60th birthday, saw the logic in the change. It wasnt as much fun.. Six weeks later, on the day that John Puerner of Tribune Co. took over as publisher of The Times, Chandler had dinner with Puerner and Jack Fuller, then-president of Tribune Publishing at their invitation. But in 1972, he suffered his most damaging blow and it was, to a significant extent, self-inflicted. But as the children grew up and she had more time available, she embarked on a career of her own she got womens lib is how Chandler put it and that exacerbated tensions between them. Landsberg did additional reporting and rewriting of the text. Or did it, in some way, lead the region into change? Alberta Chandler, the wife of Chandlers uncle (and rival) Philip, was a prominent member of the Birch Society, and she and Philip had played host to Birch Society President Robert Welch. 1. I dont butt in.. A public memorial will be held Monday at All Saints Church in Pasadena. Chandler who learned to hunt when he was 10, shooting ducks with his father began big-game hunting a year after he became publisher, and for most of the rest of his life, he tried to go on at least one major hunting trip a year, in Botswana, Mongolia, Afghanistan and Ethiopia, among other places. Instead they always find new ways to spend money.. It was a sign that you now have a boss who believes in good, tough journalism, who wants to produce the best paper in the country and wholl support you in your efforts and make it possible to achieve that, he said. I liked to make it on my own in whatever I accomplished, he told an interviewer. He always has to have a project. Records may include photos, original documents, family history, relatives, specific dates, locations and full names. He also complained that the papers editor and publisher never try to come up with new ways to cut the deficit. [2] At Stanford he was a successful shot putter. His efforts led him directly into confrontation with a powerful force for the status quo: his own family. For a time, when he was young, Chandler rode a bicycle several miles to and from the Polytechnic School in Pasadena. But he did send memos to Williams, the editor, periodically in his early years as publisher criticizing the business and sports sections, for example, and complaining about the content and design of the Sunday magazine, then as now called West. He was the fourth and final member of the Chandler family to hold the paper's top position. In the 1980 speech, he complained that he felt increasingly like an outcast. But he never interfered with an editorial decision, Thomas said, never tried to tell me how a story should be written or edited or played, or how a page should look.. Otis Chandler (November 23, 1927 February 27, 2006) was the publisher of the Los Angeles Times between 1960 and 1980, leading a large expansion of the newspaper and its ambitions. In a controversial 1996 story in Vanity Fair, Chandler was quoted as criticizing his relatives as coupon clippers elitists bored with the problems of AIDS and the homeless and drive-by shootings. They wished The Times wouldnt cover those issues, and they werent interested in either the papers editorial quality or its social responsibility, he said. Historical Person Search Search Search Results Results Otis Chandler (1928 - 1970) Try FREE for 14 days Try FREE for 14 days How do we create a person's profile? After the papers decision to endorse Nixon for reelection as president in 1972 caused a newsroom firestorm, The Times announced in 1973 that it would no longer routinely endorse candidates for president, governor or U.S. senator. In 1948 the Chandler family had started a second newspaper, an afternoon tabloid called the Los Angeles Mirror, and as part of his training program, Otis worked there too. Chandler made improvement of the paper's quality a top priority, succeeding in raising the product's reputation, as well as its profit margins. He continued to ride motorcycles. Also, because Thomas was more aggressive than Williams, more likely to take the initiative and less likely to urge caution, Chandler adopted a largely hands-off approach. Despite Chandlers worries and despite what he said was a constant stream of calls and letters from Times executives past and present, asking him to do something about the direction of the newspaper, he made no real effort for most of Willes tenure to influence what was happening at Times Mirror Square. But he said he wished people realized that if hed been left totally on his own, he might have done something different, so why did they question it when he finally decided he would do something different., Although Chandler often likened himself to the eagle that serves as the symbol of The Times I like to soar, to get above the minutiae and the crowds he insisted that as long as he was publisher, I was living the life I wanted to live. They didnt like the L.A. Times, he said in the 2005 interview. [1], Chandler was raised on a 10-acre (40,000m2) citrus ranch in Sierra Madre owned by his parents. Chandler tried to make amends, claiming he had been misquoted, but the damage had been done. Chandlers primary role was to provide the impetus, framework and financial support for change, rather than dictating specifics. But the newsroom was riddled with hacks, and Norman Chandler was unwilling to make sweeping personnel changes or to approve the expenditures necessary to effect significant improvement. The Games took place in 1952. The most traumatic experience of Chandlers childhood one that assumed mythic proportions as he grew toward adulthood came when he was 8. With the Mirror still losing money, it had been Chandler who wanted it closed, and his father had reluctantly concurred. . 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