The city editor, who had been hired during Chandlers heyday as publisher, said he felt an obligation to carry out his former boss wishes. 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. Otis has gone surfing, and hes not coming back, Noel Greenwood, then senior editor of The Times, said in 1991, almost four years before Willes took over and eight years before Staples erupted. I liked to make it on my own in whatever I accomplished, he told an interviewer. [1], Times editorial page editor Anthony Day observed that Chandler "had been raised to be a prince". Despite his family's wealth, Chandler's father insisted that he perform field labor and did not spoil him with gifts. Only then did Chandler tell Thomas about himself and his family. Husband of Bettina Chandler He was the fourth and final member of the Chandler family to hold the paper's top position. Historical records and family trees related to Chandler Otis. Together, he wrote to Johnson after the changing of the guard, we are going to push the New York Times off its perch.. [1], Chandler visited The Times frequently as a child, sliding down chutes that were used to drop papers to delivery trucks. Although the decision stunned her, friends said they had long seen the breakup coming. Some at the Los Angeles Times felt that Chandlers sharp public criticism of management and the widespread attention it received played a role in several subsequent management decisions. [1] He was the son of Norman Chandler, his predecessor as publisher, and Dorothy Buffum Chandler, a patron of the arts and a Regent of the University of California. The Birchers argued that presidents Eisenhower, Truman and Franklin Roosevelt were either Communists or Communist dupes. Chandlers primary role was to provide the impetus, framework and financial support for change, rather than dictating specifics. His goal, he once quipped, was to make it a militant middle-of-the-road paper.. He surfed. Hes restless. More than most high-level executives, Chandler also seemed willing to interrupt the workday occasionally when pleasure beckoned. Mark has the stock price and dividends up, and thats all they care about.. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. Geni requires JavaScript! After a year or so in editorial, when I told my dad that Id just like to be a reporter, he said, no, I had to go on to other departments, Chandler said. We treated him as an insider and told him what was happening, Carroll said. He was the fourth and final member of the Chandler family to hold the paper's top position. For several years, the pair had enjoyed a Saturday ritual. He withdrew from Dartmouth and moved to Los Angeles for his health. 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. Chandler always denied any conflict of interest, and he invariably emerged from these controversies with his reputation for personal integrity intact. Not only did it not, as a rule, endorse Democrats for elective office; it didnt cover their campaigns. Records may include photos, original documents, family history, relatives, specific dates, locations and full names. 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. 1. 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. 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. This was the only big investment I ever made, and I didnt do any investigation of it beforehand. 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. In college, he had sometimes worked summers at the paper, most often using his physical strength to move printing plates and other heavy items and equipment. He was also so disenchanted with the management of Times Mirror by then that, to the dismay of many, he not only didnt fight or even criticize the sale but instead embraced it as a very positive move a perfect fit a win-win situation.. 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. I like living on the edge, he said in a 1999 interview, five months after his 71st birthday and two weeks after he suffered minor head injuries when he spun out in one of his Ferraris near the vintage-car and wildlife museum he owned in Oxnard. Newspapers are a mature, non-growth industry, vulnerable to cyclical economic downturns and increases in the cost of newsprint, he said. The Times, he would later say, was very much in his blood even then. (1924 - 1972) Jump to: Bio graphy Family Photos Comments Obit uary. He worked out daily, lifting weights in a gym he had built at The Times and improvising when he was traveling. Chandler cared deeply about how The Times was regarded by East Coast opinion-makers, and more than 40 years after his father first took him to a national convention of newspaper publishers, he could still recall, with an edge in his voice, how clear it was that The Times was regarded as a bad newspaper from a hick town.. In an extreme example of the papers penchant for treating Democrats like nonentities, one lengthy article featured Knowlands attack on my opponent, the Democratic candidate for governor, who was described as a tool of union bosses and socialists. 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Lewy body disease is a brain disorder combining some of the most debilitating characteristics of Parkinsons and Alzheimers diseases. He was the fourth and final member of the Chandler family to hold the paper's top position. Otis Chandler will go down as one of the most important figures in newspaper history, said Dean Baquet, editor of the Los Angeles Times. But most of his friends and associates said he didnt really have his heart in his new jobs. Bulked up to 6 feet 3, 220 pounds as a senior in 1950, when he was captain of the track team, he put the shot 57 feet, 63/47 of an inch, to win the Pacific Coast Conference championship. Chandler had long felt that Willes hadnt shown enough respect for him and what he had accomplished. The Securities and Exchange Commission dropped all charges against Chandler in 1975, but the case cost him more than $1 million in legal fees, and it had a devastating emotional effect on him. It was at Watkins Glen that Chandler got to know Bettina Whitaker, who was an executive at Shakeys International, a sponsor of his Watkins Glen car. He lost part of the big toe on his left foot, saw another toe severely damaged and the rest of the foot became largely numb. He was rejected anyway; his shoulders and hips were still too big to fit into the cockpit of a jet. [1], On a 1964 safari in Mozambique, an elephant charged his party. Brother of Camilla Chandler, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis_Chandler. When the guide missed his shot and ran off in a panic, Chandler shot the elephant in the leg at a distance of 10 yards, deflecting the animal just enough to send it thundering past them. He hired the best people he could find and gave them the freedom, the resources and the challenge to take a newspaper that had been mocked as partisan, parochial and inferior and turn it into a publication that could no longer be sneered at. 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.. His Stanford roommate, Norman Nourse, suggested that he try the shotput throwing a 16-pound iron ball. [1], In 1990, Chandler was trampled by a musk ox in the Northwest Territories of Canada. To put together his galaxy of star reporters, Otis Chandler employed what in much of the newspaper business amounts to a secret weapon money.. Otis and Williams perhaps the ablest newspaper editor of his generation, in Halberstams words became a formidable team. Given the principal players on both sides, the deal, or one very much like it, was probably inevitable, with or without Otis and without or without Staples. His grandfather, Charles Abel Buffum, was a businessman who founded Buffum's, a department store chain, with his brother, Edwin E. Buffum, and a politician, who served as Mayor of Long Beach, California. Chandler knew and trusted Burke. At the same time, it doubled its circulation to more than 1 million daily and for many years during and after his tenure published more news and more advertising than any other newspaper in the United States. ADVERTISEMENT BY ANCESTRY.COM. 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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. Expressions of condolence or remembrance can be sent to the Chandler family at chan@mfire.com. Chandler pursued excellence in every aspect of his life, said Tom Johnson. 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. During his tenure it would expand to 34 foreign and domestic bureaus. 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. But by 1962, The Times had become a different institution. Chandler was both more willing than most publishers to reinvest the papers rising profits in editorial improvements and more visionary in his approach to newspapering. He was airlifted to a hospital. The Games took place in 1952. Critics also thought his position at the top of the citys power structure prevented The Times from aggressively investigating that establishment. In Los Angeles, while working in the fruit fields, he started a small delivery company that . 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.. 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. After leaving the Air Force in 1953, he had little direction for his career. [1] 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 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. I was a B student.). 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. Williams was 21 years older than Chandler and often pulled in his reins. Chandler was the great-grandson of Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, the blustery Civil War veteran who bought part-ownership of The Times in 1882, a year after it began publication, and was its publisher for 35 years. He had married his college sweetheart, Marilyn Brant having proposed to her on his 23rd birthday on the seventh hole of the Pebble Beach golf course and they had a baby boy (Norman, after Otis father) but no plans and no substantial income. Missy and I had had a good marriage, but we just werent getting along anymore in the last 10 years. 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. But Tribune had long had Times Mirror in its corporate sights. He was skinny all right 6 feet 1, 155 pounds but he played varsity soccer and basketball, high-jumped and ran the mile, and his successes gave him an identity. Despite that, Chandler did not envision journalism as a career during his youth; instead, he often said he would like to become a doctor. As a Times columnist, he would become one of the most celebrated sportswriters ever. The disease is known for its fast progression. Thomas, who was among the editors brought over from the Mirror, said he believed that the windfall of local talent was as responsible for The Times subsequent success as the hiring of big guns from the East. 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. Otis Ashmore Chandler (1891 - 1956) Well before Chandler was named publisher, a poll of Washington correspondents conducted by writer Leo Rosten named The Times one of the three least fair and reliable newspapers in the country. On one memorable occasion, a hotel maid walked in on him while he was doing full squats with his wife on his shoulders in place of a barbell. Otis Chandler at the Los Angeles Times in 2003 with a photo of his mother, Dorothy Chandler, in the backgorund. He was turned down because he was 17 pounds heavier than the maximum allowed for jet pilots, so he starved himself and quickly lost the weight. After graduating from Stanford, he tried to enroll in an Air Force training program. I think he saw leaving Missy as getting his freedom in one way, said David Laventhol, publisher of The Times from 1989 to 1994. Otis is someone whos very used to having his own way, and she impeded that.. Other key members of the Chandler family wanted Philip to succeed Norman, wrote Marshall Berges in his 1984 book, The Life and Times of Los Angeles. But Norman regarded Philip as something of a lightweight, not entirely competent to take an aggressive leadership role at The Times.. [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. Thats not in my nature, he said. It was a watershed experience, he said. My trips gave me a balance, a perspective, he said. I was 50, and I didnt want to be unhappy for the rest of my life.. If he hadnt divorced Missy, Im not sure he wouldve left the paper. The annual news department budget at The Times was $3.7.million when Chandler took over. 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. He expected the very best of himself and of those around him.. Le Dowling arbre gnalogique avec les parents d'undemi-million, contient des milliers de photos et plus d'un millierGeneaStars. But in 1989, two months after Laventhol replaced Johnson as publisher, Day was removed. 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. Though Chandler said he was naturally saddened that Times Mirror will cease to exist and saddened by the end of local ownership, he had wondered aloud for at least five years whether Times Mirror could continue to thrive on its own in the turn-of-the-century mega-media merger environment. There Chandler spent much of his time alone, later in life unable to name a single childhood friend. He had the papers support when he ran unsuccessfully for president in 1960. Otis himself offered contradictory explanations of his mothers role in his promotion, befitting a mother-son relationship that had its share of paradox. Thats more than I ever heard from Mark Willes.. But he also had a princes sense of entitlement, a sense that perhaps I dont have to do this every damn day, he added. Who can help student-athletes cash in? Goodwin J. Knight. When he arrived at his parents' home with his wife and first child, his father presented him with credentials for a seven-year executive training program at The Times. 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. The Hearst paper was subsequently hit by a devastating strike and ceased publication in 1989. I loved being a reporter. 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. He accused Willes and Downing of misusing and abusing the newsroom staff, of unbelievably stupid and unprofessional handling of the Staples special section and of perpetrating a scandal and a fiasco that posed the most serious single threat to the future survival and growth of this great newspaper during my more than 50 years of being associated with The Times., This was, he said, probably the single most devastating period in the history of this great newspaper. At the same time, he shifted the papers editorial page philosophy from the extreme right to slightly left of center. . 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. Chandler won many distinguished awards in his years at The Times: honorary degrees and plaques and certificates from various universities and other prestigious institutions, including a lifetime achievement award from the Annenberg School for Communication at USC a few months before the sale of Times Mirror. When, by late September, it appeared that Brown might win as he ultimately did Times political editor Kyle Palmer, the papers lead reporter on the campaign, wrote a column acknowledging that the situation sounds a trifle grim for us Republicans.. Murray had helped create Sports Illustrated and was one of its stars. "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. Sulzberger recalled decades later that he once walked into Chandlers office and found him hanging upside down in the doorway, like a bat. Column: 15 minutes of fame flies by. 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. The two married in 1922, and had two children, Camilla and Otis, both born in 1927. In October 1957, continuing his climb into the executive ranks, Chandler was named special assistant to his father. Collection Title: Chandler Family History Collection Digitized by California Audiovisual Preservation Project. For him a project is a process, a growth. He said he didnt regret the 40 years he spent here. He was also consumed by another passion: buying classic cars for his museum. Chandler was raised to share his family's distaste for labor unions, a tradition that favored the family's financial interests. 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. Knowing that he couldnt create a high-quality, widely respected news organization if he relied exclusively on wire service reports and his existing staff, he began hiring top reporters and editors from other major news organizations and opening Times bureaus around the world. Norman Chandler 1899-1973. Readers could be excused for thinking that only one political party existed in Southern California. 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. His mother rushed him to a hospital, where doctors initially reported he was dead. 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