Because much of his Times Mirror stock was tied up in trust funds, a lot of his money came from buying and selling cars. [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. 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. 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. More than 15,000 readers canceled their subscriptions, and Chandlers breach with some members of his family was widened still further. He lifted weights three times a week in his home gym. He hunted. When Williams showed him the piece, the publisher said it wasnt tough enough. Chandlers words hit like a bombshell, both in the Times newsroom and in the newspaper business nationwide. Despite the enormous difference in their socioeconomic status, the two remained close friends for more than 30 years. About the same time, McKinsey & Co., a management consulting firm, was conducting another of its periodic studies for The Times, and it too recommended dividing the responsibilities of publisher and chairman. 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. FOR THE RECORD:In an earlier version of this article, the date of the Helsinki Olympic Games was incorrectly given as 1948. He was featured on the cover of sporting magazines like Road & Track, Strength and Health, and Safari Club. Unlike his father, however, he had not insisted that his children follow him into leadership positions at The Times. 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. The Birchers argued that presidents Eisenhower, Truman and Franklin Roosevelt were either Communists or Communist dupes. He also began to develop a love of speed and once had to do a stint in traffic school after getting a speeding ticket on his bicycle, he said. On arrival, she encountered a doctor she knew, and he revived the boy with a shot of adrenaline in the heart. 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. Willes had taken charge of the company after a deep and prolonged recession that hit The Times particularly hard; circulation at the paper was declining, and both the stock price and the profits of Times Mirror were falling even faster. 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. The series and editorial landed like a bombshell. It was clear to me that it meant a lot to him and that he didnt want to feel shut out.. I was just told to be at the Biltmore an hour early for a civic luncheon.. Respect and credibility for a newspaper is irreplaceable.. 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. Ex-husband of Marilyn "Missy" Chandler Stewart Chandlers primary role was to provide the impetus, framework and financial support for change, rather than dictating specifics. He wrote a statement, dictated it to Bill Boyarsky, then city editor, and asked that it be read aloud to the newsroom staff. 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 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. Born in Los Angeles on Nov. 23, 1927, Chandler was the only son of Norman Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler. After leaving the Air Force in 1953, he had little direction for his career. Many Chandler associates said his marriages breakup and the end of his publishership were inextricably intertwined. Collection Title: Chandler Family History Collection Digitized by California Audiovisual Preservation Project. The explosion was blamed on union militants, and, Otis once said, I was raised to hate the unions. (He later mellowed on that topic, although he always opposed unionization at The Times.). 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. Going with newspapers only is a flawed strategy, a dangerous philosophy that puts The Times at risk. Norman Chandler 1899-1973. 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 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. Chandler, he said, loved being publisher. 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 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. Otis Chandler will go down as one of the most important figures in newspaper history, said Dean Baquet, editor of the Los Angeles Times. Buff Chandler was the daughter of a prominent Long Beach family, owners of the successful Buffums department store. Husband of Bettina Chandler Lewy body disease is a brain disorder combining some of the most debilitating characteristics of Parkinsons and Alzheimers diseases. For most of the first 80 years of its existence, the paper was such a journalistic laughingstock that humorist S.J. And it became clear over the years that he did not have any such intention. Le Dowling arbre gnalogique avec les parents d'undemi-million, contient des milliers de photos et plus d'un millierGeneaStars. It is Marilyn Brant. (Little) Chandler. But the series also served notice that The Times was in the process of becoming a different and much better newspaper. Constance Chandler 1896-1962. But he was never specific, and the word publisher was never mentioned.. I was 50, and I didnt want to be unhappy for the rest of my life.. Three top editors asked Boyarsky not to read the statement aloud, fearing that it would further provoke an already enraged staff. I dont know but I didnt have that choice.. 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. On that wisp of a lure, the room filled up with the cream of the Southern California establishment: corporate heads, college presidents, prominent lawyers and judges, Los Angeles Mayor Norris Poulson, members of the county Board of Supervisors, former California Gov. For a time, when he was young, Chandler rode a bicycle several miles to and from the Polytechnic School in Pasadena. He was initially miserable; the other students all seemed richer, better-educated and more sophisticated. Among them: the mate of the musk ox that nearly killed him in 1990. 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.. 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. Chandler always denied any conflict of interest, and he invariably emerged from these controversies with his reputation for personal integrity intact. He was airlifted to a hospital. Since mandatory retirement age for the publisher was then 65, that conveniently eliminated the 52-year-old Philip. During Chandlers 20 years as publisher and five subsequent years as editor in chief and chairman of the board of The Times then-parent company, Times Mirror the paper won nine Pulitzer Prizes and expanded from two to 34 foreign and domestic bureaus. Victims suffer from severe dementia, as well as the stiffness, tremors and impaired movements characteristic of Parkinsons. 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. After the series was published, Otis asked for an editorial criticizing the Birchers. 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. Like his father, who had also been kept on tight purse strings by his father, Otis often split the bill with his fiancee or let her pick up the tab when they dated. Many people found him a bit distant cool, controlled, difficult to know well and these qualities became more pronounced as he matured and increasingly tried to escape the burden of being a Chandler. Murphy was scheduled to retire soon, and Otis was determined to give up the publishers job in 1980, when he would have been publisher for 20 years four years longer than my father, he often pointed out to those disappointed by his departure. Despite the liberalization of The Times editorial page under Chandler, he remained moderate, even conservative, on many issues, feminism among them. In Los Angeles, while working in the fruit fields, he started a small delivery company that . 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. 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. 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 He was the fourth and final member of the Chandler family to hold the paper's top position. Chandler was never a meddler or an intruder. 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. Until shortly before his death in 1973, Chandlers father had helped insulate him from those protests. "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. 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.. When he was a little older, he set up his own backyard basketball backboard and high-jump pit, and practiced both sports, by himself, hour after hour. He eventually recovered from serious head injuries. Together, he wrote to Johnson after the changing of the guard, we are going to push the New York Times off its perch.. He told me, You created a great newspaper, Otis, and well make you proud,. Chandler said. Hes restless. At the time of her death in 1997, she had eight grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. 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. 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. 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. 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. Thats why we diversified the company and went into television and cable and forest products and books and medical and legal publishing.. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. For the first time in his life, he found his personal integrity seriously questioned. 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. Although all three of his sons worked at the paper for varying periods, none ascended into the top executive ranks. 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. The agreement made sense financially for The Times, but it proved to be a boon in another way as well. There Chandler spent much of his time alone, later in life unable to name a single childhood friend. In 1977, Chandler brought Tom Johnson, publisher of the Dallas Times-Herald and a former aide to President Johnson (no relation), to Los Angeles as president of The Times and heir apparent for publisher. I dont butt in.. 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. You transformed the entire staff, he said, and the whole place had a totally different attitude.. Still, he wanted to be bigger and stronger, so shortly after graduation, he took up weightlifting. When Chandler left the publishers office and again when he left the chairmans job, his former colleagues worried that without him, they would no longer be immune to corporate and outside pressures. [1], In 1990, Chandler was trampled by a musk ox in the Northwest Territories of Canada. [1], In 1986, Chandler won the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism to honor his years of service to the newspaper.[3]. 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. Chandler tried to make amends, claiming he had been misquoted, but the damage had been done. [1], Chandler was raised on a 10-acre (40,000m2) citrus ranch in Sierra Madre owned by his parents. But by then, he had so little real power and so little influence with the members of his family who controlled the paper that when they decided four months later to sell Times Mirror to Tribune Co. of Chicago, he said he hadnt even known about the negotiations until he heard rumors, nothing more, two days before the deal was consummated. He also showed his father skills that went beyond the reportorial. 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. 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. After graduating from Stanford, he tried to enroll in an Air Force training program. Landsberg did additional reporting and rewriting of the text. Within an hour, I had gathered things up in my briefcase, told my secretary, Well, we can shine those afternoon meetings off, and headed for Dana Point.., In a speech to a hunting conference in 1980, he described some of his other outdoor pursuits: I am primarily a gun hunter, both rifle and shotgun. Otis and Williams perhaps the ablest newspaper editor of his generation, in Halberstams words became a formidable team. 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. Many at The Times hoped that in the aftermath of that re-emergence, Chandler would use his moral authority to help reverse what he and they saw as the declining fortunes of the paper. He wrote offbeat feature stories, such as one about the people who feed sharks at the aquarium. 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. Periodically, Chandler rented the now-defunct Riverside Raceway for a day so he, Thomas and their friends could race their cars. He was the fourth and final member of the Chandler family to hold the paper's top position. His successors, he said, had been "unbelievably stupid" and caused "the most serious single threat to the future" of the paper his family had bought in 1882 for this dangerous compromise of the paper's objectivity. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Otis Chandler. Chandler himself invested more than $200,000 of his personal funds. I started work right away, on the graveyard shift, midnight to 8 in the morning. He was a pressroom apprentice, at $48 a week, the equivalent of $356 in todays dollars. He also complained that the papers editor and publisher never try to come up with new ways to cut the deficit. 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). 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. When Chandler took the job, the paper had only two outside offices. Married Harry Chandler . This coincided with the shift of the paper's editorial stance from overtly conservative to independent. I always had the feeling that I wasnt welcome in the building when Mark was in charge that maybe theyd have a guard try to throw me out if I tried to come in. Chandler had long felt that Willes hadnt shown enough respect for him and what he had accomplished. Watkins Glen was to be one of the most enjoyable experiences of Chandlers life. 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. Most historians credit Otis mother Buff to her friends and family with persuading her husband to make their son his successor. . [1] 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. I was strictly a tall, skinny blond kid from California.. He expected the very best of himself and of those around him.. [1], On a 1964 safari in Mozambique, an elephant charged his party. The decision stunned the staff and outside observers, many of whom expected him to serve much longer. [1], A sprained wrist kept him from competing as a shot putter for the United States in the 1952 Summer Olympics. When doctors said Otis was dead, Mrs. Chandler wailed, My son is not dead! She picked him up and raced to another hospital, screaming all the way there, Otis is alive, Otis is alive!. Despite that, Chandler did not envision journalism as a career during his youth; instead, he often said he would like to become a doctor. Her father had been mayor of Long Beach. 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. By the time of graduation, he weighed 200 pounds. Not only did it not, as a rule, endorse Democrats for elective office; it didnt cover their campaigns. Otis himself offered contradictory explanations of his mothers role in his promotion, befitting a mother-son relationship that had its share of paradox. It was a watershed experience, he said. 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. Sulzberger recalled decades later that he once walked into Chandlers office and found him hanging upside down in the doorway, like a bat. 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. 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. Missy and I had had a good marriage, but we just werent getting along anymore in the last 10 years. 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. People who knew the Chandlers well say Otis first wife was enormously competitive. Southern California was considered a cultural backwater, and despite his familys vast wealth and power, Chandler felt like a hick. 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. But when Williams, the editor, suggested that the paper look into the organization anyway, both Otis and Norman Chandler gave him the go-ahead. 2443 E Peach Tree Drive is currently listed for rent at $1,995 and was received on February 28, 2023. No one could say that the team carried me or that the coach put me in because my name was Chandler.. Chandler liked the shotput and weightlifting, he once said, because they were individual sports, and he could be judged on his own merits. Norman Chandler was delighted by this practical evidence that Otis had absorbed his childhood lessons of prudence and thrift. And sooner or later Im afraid well have to align ourselves with one of those companies to ensure the long-term survival of The Times., When Tribune turned out to be that company, Chandler said, Of all the people, of all the media companies that Times Mirror could join, this is the most logical and probably the best company.. [1], Chandler made improvement of the paper's quality a top priority, succeeding in raising the product's reputation, as well as its profit margins. Brother of Camilla Chandler, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis_Chandler. Chandler pursued excellence in every aspect of his life, said Tom Johnson. [2] At Stanford he was a successful shot putter. Otis Family Trees, Crests, Genealogy, DNA, More add your favorite Website (s) to this page! And in January 1964, they hired a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist away from the Denver Post. 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. 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 booming Southern California economy helped immeasurably, of course. 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. To put together his galaxy of star reporters, Otis Chandler employed what in much of the newspaper business amounts to a secret weapon money.. In the next three years, The Times changed as perhaps no other American newspaper has ever done in such a short time. 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. He also made it more profitable than ever. "I was raised to hate the unions," Chandler said. Such special issues were financial windfalls for the Times, generating a record $2 million in ad revenue. 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