Later he would briefly attend the Cate School boarding school in Carpinteria before his parents elected to send him east to attend Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Sulzberger recalled decades later that he once walked into Chandlers office and found him hanging upside down in the doorway, like a bat. Lewy body disease is a brain disorder combining some of the most debilitating characteristics of Parkinsons and Alzheimers diseases. On March 5, 1980, Chandler announced that Johnson would become the fifth publisher of The Times and the first since the papers infancy who was not a member of the Otis or Chandler families. Staffing in Washington and Sacramento was expanded. Norman Chandler 1899-1973. 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. But in 1968, the paper endorsed Democrat Alan Cranston for U.S. Senate over Republican Max Rafferty, whom it called an outspoken, militant conservative.. In one of their biggest coups, they brought in Robert J. Donovan, the Washington Bureau chief of the New York Herald-Tribune and one of the most respected journalists in the country, to be chief of the expanded Times bureau in the capital. [1], On a 1964 safari in Mozambique, an elephant charged his party. Various Chandlers controlled about 65% of the Times Mirror voting stock before the sale to Tribune in 2000, and most of them love Willes, Otis said several months before those negotiations began. Norman Chandler (1899-1973), Publisher of the Los Angeles Times. Research genealogy for Otis Chandler of Mingo, West Virginia, as well as other members of the Chandler family, on Ancestry. 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. Doctors estimated that his dislocated right arm would never fully heal, but, citing a disciplined training regimen, Chandler claimed to regain virtually all use. . 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.. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. 1. Otis Chandler will go down as one of the most important figures in newspaper history, said Dean Baquet, editor of the Los Angeles Times. He said I had to be well-rounded and implied that it was so I could ultimately take some executive position. Until shortly before his death in 1973, Chandlers father had helped insulate him from those protests. 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. Otis Chandler died at age 51 years old in March 1971. Even when he was publisher, Chandler wasnt one of those workaholic bosses who could never let go. In 1999 almost 20 years after he left the publishers office and with no official ties to the paper anymore its standing in the national journalistic firmament was still so important to him that he emerged from a largely self-imposed exile and issued a strong denunciation of top Times and Times Mirror executives. Chandler was growing weary, worn down by the rigors of work and the burdens of responsibility, dispirited by GeoTek and his failing marriage, getting by mostly on nervous energy, with big circles under my eyes, he later said. Chandler started prep school at Cate, in Carpinteria, but his parents thought hed find a greater challenge and broader perspective back East, so after a year they transferred him to Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. Brother of Camilla Chandler, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis_Chandler. He said to me many times that he hadnt wanted to come to the paper in the first place, but he felt an obligation to his family to do it, said Robert F. Erburu, who succeeded Chandler as Times Mirror chairman. Two years later, he was made marketing manager of The Times. If he hadnt divorced Missy, Im not sure he wouldve left the paper. Buff Chandler was the daughter of a prominent Long Beach family, owners of the successful Buffums department store. They never thought she was good enough to marry Norman, and she was out to prove them wrong, her son said several years after her death. Most historians credit Otis mother Buff to her friends and family with persuading her husband to make their son his successor. As much as Chandler remained interested in The Times, he immensely enjoyed his retirement years. He lifted weights three times a week in his home gym. As recently as September, Chandler appeared fit, aside from a knee injury, and was lucid enough to sit for an interview and give a visitor a guided tour of his classic car and motorcycle museum in Oxnard. He sought largely solitary recreational activities throughout his adult life surfing, lifting weights, racing, cycling, hunting. The Times, he would later say, was very much in his blood even then. When I asked what he did, he just said, I work at The Times,. Thomas recalled. He was also the only reporter, rookie or veteran, whose name regularly appeared in both the Sports section, which chronicled his continuing exploits as a competitive weightlifter, and in the society pages, where his attendance at various black-tie events always rated a mention. 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 think he fears that he would die if he werent building something.. As much as any other change at the paper, the arrival of Paul Conrad brilliant, sharp-penned and liberal served notice that an entirely new breed of Chandler was in charge. 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. 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.. Otis Ashmore Chandler (1891 - 1956) It was the best down time I ever had, and I always kept a notebook with all the things I wanted to do when I got back.. On it, neatly typed, was a seven-year executive training program, scheduled to begin that Sunday night. Well into his 70s, he maintained a long-distance bicycling regimen that few people half his age could attempt. [1], A sprained wrist kept him from competing as a shot putter for the United States in the 1952 Summer Olympics. I thought Otis was committed in the same way, she said. 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. The booming Southern California economy helped immeasurably, of course. I occasionally hunt with a bow I am a saltwater fisherman and dry-fly freshwater fisherman, a gun collector, a sometime skeet and target shooter, an avid backpacker, outdoor photographer, trophy skinner, wild game gourmet but a lousy cook. 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. Such special issues were financial windfalls for the Times, generating a record $2 million in ad revenue. 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 Since mandatory retirement age for the publisher was then 65, that conveniently eliminated the 52-year-old Philip. Most of his early jobs in the training program were just that jobs, a grinding routine, he later said and because his father wanted him to have as many Times experiences (and meet as many Times employees) as possible, his schedule was constantly changing. The Chandlers had no rival as the most powerful family in Southern California. I think building houses is a replacement for the satisfaction he got from The Times, his wife, Bettina, said just before construction began on the Ojai house. He spent 1951 to 1953 on the ground in the Air Force, supervising sports and acting as co-captain of the Air Force track team at Camp Stoneman in the San Francisco Bay Area. The only other possible publisher in the family, however, was Normans younger brother Philip, then general manager of The Times and a member of the Times Mirror board. Chandler contributed to that perception in 1978, when he responded to a television interviewers questions about the papers coverage of black and Latino communities by saying it was difficult to get those groups to read The Times. The disease is known for its fast progression. Regardless, Chandler welcomed the outcome, largely because of his dissatisfaction with the existing management of Times-Mirror. Others argued that the negative attention that was focused on the paper, Willes and the rest of the Chandler family in the aftermath of Otis statement helped accelerate and crystallize the familys desire to sell The Times. The two had hunted together, and Burke was the godfather of Chandlers eldest daughter, Cathleen. At the time of her death in 1997, she had eight grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. 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. Watkins Glen was to be one of the most enjoyable experiences of Chandlers life. As a child, each year his parents held a memorial for the 1910 Los Angeles Times bombing, linked to political agitators, that killed 20 Times workers. 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.. New Search for: Last Name First Name (optional) Locality: Worldwide Information for This Surname Explore MyHeritage's records for the Otis family (Source: MyHeritage) Cemeteries In a cover story on Chandler in 1967, Newsweek said, In the six years since his father made him publisher of The Times, Chandler has staged one of the most remarkable palace revolutions in U.S. journalism. He had family money, but he had looked on GeoTek as another chance to prove he could succeed on his own, and he wound up embarrassed and forced by the exposure to return his stock and finders fees. Chandler was honored with a Lifetime of Achievement award. He was, in general, something of a loner, a trait he traced partly to spending my young years on that ranch in Sierra Madre, a little remote, rather than on a neighborhood street with a lot of kids. Asked repeatedly in one interview to name his best childhood friends, he came up blank. If you will, its too complicated.. [2] At Stanford he was a successful shot putter. Chandler always denied any conflict of interest, and he invariably emerged from these controversies with his reputation for personal integrity intact. But former Editor Thomas, who joined the paper two years after Otis became publisher, said that although Chandler was basically a C-plus student his focus and tenacity made him an A-plus as a publisher or almost anything else he really put his mind to., (Jesus, Bill, Chandler told Thomas when he learned what the editor had said. 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. Nobody had ever heard of the Chandlers, he said later. Not once did the article refer to Brown by name. The pay was $48 a week. Although Chandler had previously been insistent that his criticisms of the business strategies pursued by Times management remain private, this undermining of the papers editorial integrity stirred him to action. "No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did," journalist David Halberstam wrote in his history of the company. Periodically, Chandler rented the now-defunct Riverside Raceway for a day so he, Thomas and their friends could race their cars. Nevertheless, the increasingly liberal stand on most major issues angered many in the Chandler family. And it became clear over the years that he did not have any such intention. Willes, he said in 1999, was basically undoing what I and my father and Franklin Murphy all did, dating back to 1958. Unencumbered by union contracts, Chandler made major technological improvements at The Times, shifting from traditional hot type letterpress production to more flexible photo-composition and offset printing, and making The Times the first major newspaper in the United States to computerize typesetting. No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did, David Halberstam wrote in The Powers That Be, his 1979 book about the news media. 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. 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. Otis enthusiastically supported Michael's racing career until a near-fatal crash while qualifying at Indianapolis in 1984. And he wrote an exhaustive, if somewhat ponderous, seven-part series about the treatment of mentally ill children. It wasnt as much fun.. Three years after that, he began construction on a 5,500-square-foot home in Ojai, about 30 minutes from his museum. Although Chandler had been opposed to Sen. Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential race, he had deferred to his father and reluctantly agreed to run an editorial before the Republican convention pledging The Times traditional support to whomever the party chose as its nominee and that turned out to be Goldwater. [4], He was not involved in negotiations by other members of the Chandler family to sell The Times to Tribune Company, a clear sign of how his influence had eroded. 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. Overnight, copies of an old photo of Chandler were pinned and taped by the dozens to pillars and walls and bulletin boards throughout the newsroom, where some still remain. They asked me a lot of questions and made me feel welcome again, Chandler said a few days later. He was bold in making changes and investments in the paper that transformed The Times into a world-class news organization., Otis was a giant in every way, said Donald Graham, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of the Washington Post Co. The paper you are reading is his monument. On the fringes of that movement and especially active in Southern California was an ultra-right-wing organization known as the John Birch Society. He was the fourth and final member of the Chandler family to hold the paper's top position. 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. After his divorce, Chandler had begun to move his primary residence so often two places in Malibu, then Hancock Park, back to Malibu, Ojai, Rancho Matilija, Oregon, Ojai again that his children began teasing him about it. 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. Despite the liberalization of The Times editorial page under Chandler, he remained moderate, even conservative, on many issues, feminism among them. Southern California was considered a cultural backwater, and despite his familys vast wealth and power, Chandler felt like a hick. Word that Chandler was breaking his silence ricocheted through the newsroom. It is Marilyn Brant. As it happened, the consultants also recommended that, to ensure stability, the new publisher be capable of holding the job at least 15 years. He handed control of the paper to people outside the family in the mid-1980s and threw himself into other interests such as the Chandler Vintage Museum of Transportation and Wildlife in Oxnard, California, which he founded in 1987 (It was regularly open to the public, primarily as a fundraiser for charities, including the Oxnard Police Activities League). The youngest son, Michael, also worked in the papers production departments, ultimately taking early retirement in a companywide buyout. Otis Chandler at the Los Angeles Times in 2003 with a photo of his mother, Dorothy Chandler, in the backgorund. I liked to make it on my own in whatever I accomplished, he told an interviewer. 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. Theyll have to carry me out of here feet first, he said. But he was never specific, and the word publisher was never mentioned.. Ex-husband of Marilyn "Missy" Chandler Stewart When I came, recalled Day, the former editorial page editor, I thought [Otis] was going to build a progressive newspaper dynasty like the Washington Post or the New York Times. For all his seeming calm and control throughout his life, he had suffered from sporadic bouts of insomnia and intestinal pain diagnosed as a spastic colon ever since he became publisher. 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. Chandler is survived by his wife; sons Harry of Los Angeles and Michael of Bend, Ore; daughters Cathleen Eckhardt of Soquel, Calif., and Carolyn Chandler of Santa Barbara; sister Camilla Chandler Frost of Los Angeles; and 15 grandchildren. 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. After graduating from Stanford, he tried to enroll in an Air Force training program. Some close to the family and the paper suggest that it might have been Mrs. Chandler who asked the board members to pressure her husband to step aside as publisher so he could devote his full attention to his chairmanship of the parent Times Mirror company, which was about to embark on a major diversification program. Wall Street responded favorably. I dont know but I didnt have that choice.. But results were slow in coming, and many top-level executives left. [1], Chandler was an enthusiastic athlete and thrill seeker, an image he actively cultivated. Although Chandler worried that the papers standing among opinion-makers would decline and that the new management was no longer committed to making The Times the best newspaper in the country, he said others in the Chandler family didnt share his concerns or his priorities. 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. Ultimately, he was able to do everything right-handed, he said, except serve hard in tennis.. He had the papers support when he ran unsuccessfully for president in 1960. 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. Chandler was diagnosed seven months ago, although doctors had determined about a year earlier that he was suffering from some form of dementia, his wife said. By the time he enrolled at Stanford University in 1946, he weighed about 200 pounds. He was airlifted to a hospital. The decision stunned the staff and outside observers, many of whom expected him to serve much longer. For the first time in his life, he found his personal integrity seriously questioned. Chandler acknowledged that it was a difficult time for newspapers, but he disagreed vigorously with Willes approach. He also complained that the papers editor and publisher never try to come up with new ways to cut the deficit. Ever concerned with the papers image and visibility nationally, he teamed with Philip Graham, then publisher of the Washington Post, to create the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service to distribute the papers stories to client papers. Hes restless. President-elect Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy Reagan, are honored at the Los Angeles Music Center in 1980 during an event hosted by Otis Chandler and his mother, Dorothy. The paper warmly endorsed Nixon but also praised Browns accomplishments in the same editorial. There Chandler spent much of his time alone, later in life unable to name a single childhood friend. Within a few years, The Times had a 2-1 lead over the Herald Examiner in advertising revenue, which provides about 80% of the income for most newspapers. 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. The annual news department budget at The Times was $3.7.million when Chandler took over. For most of the first 80 years of its existence, the paper was such a journalistic laughingstock that humorist S.J. Under Chandlers direction, The Times scrambled to hire the best of the reporters and editors from the two defunct papers and to get rid of its own deadwood. He was initially miserable; the other students all seemed richer, better-educated and more sophisticated. He foresaw the sprawling megalopolis that Los Angeles and its neighboring counties would become, and he wanted The Times to be the dominant paper from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border.. 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. Chandler's family owned a stake in the newspaper since his great-grandfather Harrison Gray Otis joined the company in 1882, the year after the Los Angeles Daily Times began publication. But he was hardly unaware of his familys powerful position. A public memorial will be held Monday at All Saints Church in Pasadena. Sure, like any business executive, there were times when I would like to have been away from it all, free of responsibilities. But Otis had certainly been aware of the family pressure. Big, blond and broad-shouldered, Chandler looked more like a Muscle Beach habitue-turned-movie star than a corporate entrepreneur on a journalistic mission. Chandlers primary role was to provide the impetus, framework and financial support for change, rather than dictating specifics. [1], Chandler visited The Times frequently as a child, sliding down chutes that were used to drop papers to delivery trucks. Chandlers grandfather and father followed Gen. Otis in the publishers chair. I was strictly a tall, skinny blond kid from California.. The New York Times even published an editorial under the headline The Truth According to Otis Chandler.. Away from the paper, off the board, with most of his Times Mirror stock in trust, he no longer had the power or the inclination to do anything concrete, not even as a fourth third-generation newspapering Chandler. He used the same tone of voice with the president of the United States and the guy who came to change the lightbulbs in his office, said Donna Swayze, his executive secretary from 1962 to 1988. I think he saw leaving Missy as getting his freedom in one way, said David Laventhol, publisher of The Times from 1989 to 1994. Their son Harry concurred, although he also agreed with his mother that most of the familys leisure activities revolved around what Dad wanted to do camping, water skiing, cliff-jumping, surfing. [1], Times editorial page editor Anthony Day observed that Chandler "had been raised to be a prince". 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. 2443 E Peach Tree Drive is currently listed for rent at $1,995 and was received on February 28, 2023. The negotiations were so secret that Willes said he didnt know about them until less than two weeks before the deal was done, and Chandler said he didnt learn of them until he began hearing rumors two days before the agreement was made. He said he didnt regret the 40 years he spent here. . Chandlers reign as publisher was not an uninterrupted, 20-year victory lap. But even though the paper and the company has been sold, it feels to me like Im home again.. After leaving the Air Force in 1953, he had little direction for his career. In the 1980 speech, he complained that he felt increasingly like an outcast. His mother rushed him to a second hospital, where a doctor she knew revived him with an adrenaline shot to the heart. When Chandler was growing up, he lived with his parents on a 10-acre citrus ranch in Sierra Madre. Who can help student-athletes cash in? Also, the name of Otis Chandlers first wife was incorrectly given as Marilyn Brandt. 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