Norman Chandler died in 1973. 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. In 1995, after moving to another ranch in Oregon, he announced that hed found paradise. Chandler acknowledged that it was a difficult time for newspapers, but he disagreed vigorously with Willes approach. He had purchased his first a 1931 Duesenberg in 1968 for $35,000, and he built a world-class collection of Porsches, Ferraris, Duesenbergs, Cadillacs, Packards and other classics before selling all of them to meet the financial terms of his divorce settlement. MyHeritage Family Trees; FamilySearch Family Tree; WikiTree; Geni World Family Tree; California Deaths, 1940 - 1997; U.S. Social Security Death Index (SSDI) U.S . Heirs to other great newspaper dynasties have felt an obligation to remain deeply involved with their papers, virtually until their dying day, and Chandlers decision not to do so remained a topic of curiosity among his peers long after he left. His mother rushed him to a hospital, where doctors initially reported he was dead. They never forgave her for her apparent role in Otis ascension over Philip. 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 Nearly a decade after his divorce, he installed the best of his animals in dioramas amid the classic cars and motorcycles in his Oxnard museum. But he was never specific, and the word publisher was never mentioned.. 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. With Otis gone, the heat shield was gone, Johnson said. Even when he was publisher, Chandler wasnt one of those workaholic bosses who could never let go. Her father had been mayor of Long Beach. In 1986, Chandler surrendered the titles of chairman and editor in chief, although he remained on the board and took on the largely ceremonial role of chairman of the companys executive committee. The Dowling Family Tree with over half a million relatives,contains thousands of pictures and over four thousand GeneaStars.We are all related! Norman Chandler (1899-1973), Publisher of the Los Angeles Times. I think he fears that he would die if he werent building something.. Chandler tried to make amends, claiming he had been misquoted, but the damage had been done. Would I have wanted to stay, given what was happening at The Times and Times Mirror? Chandler asked a year after stepping down. For most of the first 80 years of its existence, the paper was such a journalistic laughingstock that humorist S.J. Sure enough, both Thomas and Johnson said that after Chandler left, they were pressured by the sixth floor, where Times Mirror corporate offices were, to fire Day, whom Erburu and many in the family and on the board regarded as too liberal. Also, the name of Otis Chandlers first wife was incorrectly given as Marilyn Brandt. "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. Chandler, who had retired 19 years prior, sent his message directly to reporters, to the dismay of the newspaper's management. 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. The outdoors is my second home, my chapel, my retreat, my great love in life.. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. 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. He wrote a statement, dictated it to Bill Boyarsky, then city editor, and asked that it be read aloud to the newsroom staff. Husband of Bettina Chandler And he wrote an exhaustive, if somewhat ponderous, seven-part series about the treatment of mentally ill children. Critics also thought his position at the top of the citys power structure prevented The Times from aggressively investigating that establishment. Goodwin J. Knight. Until shortly before his death in 1973, Chandlers father had helped insulate him from those protests. "I was raised to hate the unions," Chandler said. Otis and Williams perhaps the ablest newspaper editor of his generation, in Halberstams words became a formidable team. The most traumatic experience of Chandlers childhood one that assumed mythic proportions as he grew toward adulthood came when he was 8. Buff Chandler was the daughter of a prominent Long Beach family, owners of the successful Buffums department store. You cannot overstate the importance of Otis Chandlers impact on the Los Angeles Times, the newspaper industry and all of Southern California, said current Times Publisher Jeff Johnson (no relation to Tom Johnson). Chandler knew and trusted Burke. But in the social pecking order of the Southern California elite, she was seen as a cut below the Chandlers, and they never let her forget it. Many invested with Burke, who raised more than $30 million among 2,200 individuals over eight years. 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. [1], Chandler enrolled at his parents' alma mater, Stanford University, in 1946. 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. He was 78. People who knew the Chandlers well say Otis first wife was enormously competitive. 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. When Chandler was growing up, he lived with his parents on a 10-acre citrus ranch in Sierra Madre. [1], In 1966 Chandler received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College. 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. Did The Times change out of foresight or luck? But when Williams, the editor, suggested that the paper look into the organization anyway, both Otis and Norman Chandler gave him the go-ahead. Theyll have to carry me out of here feet first, he said. Chandlers grandfather and father followed Gen. Otis in the publishers chair. 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 hunted. 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. 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. Otis Chandler died at age 51 years old in March 1971. After the series was published, Otis asked for an editorial criticizing the Birchers. Otis Chandler, whose vision and determination as publisher of the Los Angeles Times from 1960 to 1980 catapulted the paper from mediocrity into the front ranks of American journalism, died today of a degenerative illness called Lewy body disease. Married Harry Chandler . Its too big, its too stuffy. He built a newspaper that was as great as the city it covers. 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. Unbeknown to the reporters and editors who worked on that project and to the entire editorial staff of The Times the paper had agreed to share the profits from the issue with Staples Center as part of a complicated arrangement by which The Times became a founding partner of the arena. Like his father before him, he thought he should concentrate on companywide responsibilities, by succeeding Franklin D. Murphy as chairman of the Times Mirror board. LA Times After dropping out of Stanford, Chandler started working at the newspaper as a secretary to his father, Harry Chandler, who had been its publisher since 1917. Chandler had his own ways of blowing off such stress like getting behind the wheel of a turbocharged Porsche. When he was with you, he was really with you, Harry said. 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. Missy and I had had a good marriage, but we just werent getting along anymore in the last 10 years. Ruth Chandler 1897-1987. But in 1972, he suffered his most damaging blow and it was, to a significant extent, self-inflicted. [citation needed]. But it was fitting that his departure was so surprising to so many, for he had long been something of an enigma to his fellow publishers. When Burke was accused of fraud, Chandler too became a target of civil legal proceedings. Ex-husband of Marilyn "Missy" Chandler Stewart 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.. It wasnt meeting Bettina that did it, even though Missy thinks so, Chandler said many years later, referring to Marilyn Chandler by her nickname. On it, neatly typed, was a seven-year executive training program, scheduled to begin that Sunday night. 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. Newspapers are a mature, non-growth industry, vulnerable to cyclical economic downturns and increases in the cost of newsprint, he said. 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.. 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. 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. 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. I was strictly a tall, skinny blond kid from California.. One cannot successfully run a great newspaper like the Los Angeles Times with executives in the top two positions, both of whom have no newspaper experience at any level, Chandler said. This coincided with the shift of the paper's editorial stance from overtly conservative to independent. [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.. He also showed his father skills that went beyond the reportorial. The two men introduced themselves as J.T. and Oats (Chandlers longtime family nickname), struck up a conversation about motorcycles and soon began dirt-biking together. 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. That article deeply wounded some of the 160-odd descendants of Otis grandfather, family patriarch Harry Chandler. His most serious accident came in 1990, when a musk ox trampled him in the Northwest Territories of Canada and he had to be airlifted to a hospital. Staffing in Washington and Sacramento was expanded. As a student he competed in basketball, soccer, the high jump, running and weightlifting. [1], In 1998, at age 71, Chandler suffered minor head injuries when he spun out a Ferrari automobile on the road in Oxnard. Chandlers words hit like a bombshell, both in the Times newsroom and in the newspaper business nationwide. 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. Lucy Otis (born Chandler) in MyHeritage family trees (OBRIEN Web Site (FamilySearch)) view all 19 Immediate Family Stephen Otis husband Arunah Otis son Caroline Graves daughter Calvin Otis son Alice Otis daughter Chandler Otis son Lucy Randall daughter Stephen Otis son James Otis son Seth Otis son Nathaniel Otis son James Otis son view all 15 His Stanford roommate, Norman Nourse, suggested that he try the shotput throwing a 16-pound iron ball. He was the fourth and final member of the Chandler family to hold the paper's top position. He started work right away as a pressroom apprentice on the graveyard shift. Sure, like any business executive, there were times when I would like to have been away from it all, free of responsibilities. The GeoTek affair also damaged Chandler physically. 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. Compare DNA and explore genealogy for Otis Ashmore Chandler born 1891 Five Points, Banks, Georgia, United States died 1956 DeKalb, Georgia, United States including ancestors + children + Y-chromosome DNA + more in the free family tree community. He collected vintage cars and drove most of them to work at one time or another, alternating Porsches and Rolls-Royces with motorcycles, pickups and other vehicles in his growing inventory. When I asked what he did, he just said, I work at The Times,. Thomas recalled. Hes restless. 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. Or did it, in some way, lead the region into change? As a boy, he would stand alongside his father and grandfather at Hollywood Cemetery (now Hollywood Forever) in annual memorials to the victims of a bomb blast that wrecked the Times building in 1910, killing 20 workers. Although all three of his sons worked at the paper for varying periods, none ascended into the top executive ranks. But he also worried about his legacy, and he increasingly spoke critically, if only in private at first, about his unhappiness with the direction of Times Mirror and the paper under Mark Willes, a former executive at General Mills who had been hired to succeed Erburu as chairman and chief executive in 1995 and also assumed the title of Times publisher when Richard T. Schlosberg III retired unexpectedly in 1997. Since mandatory retirement age for the publisher was then 65, that conveniently eliminated the 52-year-old Philip. 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. [1], His son, Mike Chandler, was a race-car driver in the CART Championship Car series. He always has to have a project. From the start, he wrote periodic first-person columns, prominently displayed in the front section of the paper, musing about the life of an athlete or the quirks of an outboard motor. As a Times columnist, he would become one of the most celebrated sportswriters ever. As a weightlifter, Chandler finished third in the nation competing in the heavyweight division. He had the papers support when he ran unsuccessfully for president in 1960. Thats not in my nature, he said. 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. The Games took place in 1952. Chandler had long felt that Willes hadnt shown enough respect for him and what he had accomplished. 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. The Birchers argued that presidents Eisenhower, Truman and Franklin Roosevelt were either Communists or Communist dupes. And he took special pleasure in telling friends and colleagues about the telephone call he received from John Madigan, then-chairman and chief executive of Tribune, at 7 a.m. the day the takeover was announced. For the first time in five years, I felt like I wasnt a leper. Several prominent members of the family cousins of Otis who reflect the more conservative side of the family declined requests to be interviewed for this article. Williams was 21 years older than Chandler and often pulled in his reins. Well into his 70s, he maintained a long-distance bicycling regimen that few people half his age could attempt. John Thomas remembers meeting Chandler and not knowing who he was when Chandler took one of his Porsches to the auto dealership where Thomas worked as the parts manager in the late 1960s. Bureaus opened in Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City, Hong Kong, Rome, Bonn, London, Vienna and San Francisco, at the United Nations and on Wall Street. 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. The New York Times even published an editorial under the headline The Truth According to Otis Chandler.. But Otis had certainly been aware of the family pressure. I said something about wanting a weeks vacation first, but he wouldnt hear of it, Chandler said. [1], Chandler first attended the Polytechnic School in Pasadena, often making his commute by bicycle. 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. Chandler was honored with a Lifetime of Achievement award. Chandler was just then becoming interested in big game hunting, and his approach to hiring was much the same: only go after the biggest and the best. While in college, he sometimes worked summers at the paper, most often moving printing plates and other heavy equipment. Chandler was raised to share his family's distaste for labor unions, a tradition that favored the family's financial interests. 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. 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. 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. Despite the liberalization of The Times editorial page under Chandler, he remained moderate, even conservative, on many issues, feminism among them. The Times, on his watch, consistently editorialized in favor of gun control, but Chandler himself was a strong advocate of the right to bear arms. More than merely a newspaper with a conservative editorial policy, it was an openly partisan mouthpiece for the conservative wing of the Republican Party. Otis, meanwhile, still had no idea what his mother and father had in mind for him. On arrival, she encountered a doctor she knew, and he revived the boy with a shot of adrenaline in the heart. 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. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. 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. But he persisted and in 1978 at age 50, after years of what he called Walter Mitty fantasies about becoming a race car driver finally got a chance to race professionally. When he lost, he delivered a diatribe that would long haunt him, bitterly denouncing the press coverage by which, it was widely realized, he meant The Times and promising, You wont have Nixon to kick around anymore because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference., Years later, Otis Chandler would insist that the paper wasnt as bad as some people said when I took over. 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. In 1995, when he was 68, his motorcycle collided with a tractor in New Zealand, leaving him with part of the big toe on his left foot missing, another toe severely damaged and the rest of the foot largely numb. My trips gave me a balance, a perspective, he said. Chandler had had earlier problems with his health, suffering from prostate cancer in 1989 and a 1998 heart attack. 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. Otis said he wanted a more assertive, more liberal editorial page, Day 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.. Marian Otis Chandler (1866-1952), Born Emma Marian Otis. He and Thomas finished sixth in a field of 72 cars third in their class of 22 a remarkable performance for a 50-year-old rookie driver. 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 thought they had committed transgressions that jeopardized the reputation and credibility he had worked so diligently to establish. Chandlers reign as publisher was not an uninterrupted, 20-year victory lap. Nevertheless, the increasingly liberal stand on most major issues angered many in the Chandler family. 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. 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. Otis Chandler was born on July 4, 1919. 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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. 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. During his tenure it would expand to 34 foreign and domestic bureaus. George Cotliar, who joined the paper three years before Chandler became publisher and served as an editor for almost 40 years, said The Times had been widely regarded as a crappy newspaper and a politically biased newspaper, and the Birch series and the editorial were a statement to the staff too. The two had hunted together, and Burke was the godfather of Chandlers eldest daughter, Cathleen. 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. The conservative movement that would lead to Barry Goldwaters presidential candidacy in 1964 and to Ronald Reagans subsequent rise was in its nascence. Thomas was largely responsible for the great length and literary style of many Times stories qualities for which the paper became both celebrated and criticized. Chandler later praised his editor for frequently reminding a young publisher that you cant change a whole paper overnight.. Otis Family Trees, Crests, Genealogy, DNA, More add your favorite Website (s) to this page! 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. 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