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. Thats more than I ever heard from Mark Willes.. 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. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles 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. By the time of graduation, he weighed 200 pounds. 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.. He thought they had committed transgressions that jeopardized the reputation and credibility he had worked so diligently to establish. They told me Id have to learn to do everything left-handed., With characteristic tenacity, Chandler exercised the arm rigorously, and six months later he could lift it over his head. 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. Philip Chandler resigned from the Times Mirror board seven months later. Otis, meanwhile, still had no idea what his mother and father had in mind for him. [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. Brian Lamb, right, founder and CEO of C-Span, interviews Otis Chandler in 2001. 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. He set his sights on a goal making The Times one of the two or three great American papers and he pulled it off.. 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 . Chandler acknowledged that it was a difficult time for newspapers, but he disagreed vigorously with Willes approach. It wasnt meeting Bettina that did it, even though Missy thinks so, Chandler said many years later, referring to Marilyn Chandler by her nickname. 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. [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. Chandler realized that to build up The Times reputation, he had to demand fair and nonpartisan news coverage. The next evening, a Friday, his father grinning like a Cheshire cat, Chandler would always remember handed him a sheet of paper. I said he was a great man who made this paper what it was, Boyarsky would say later. 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. 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. Then, on April 11, 1960, Norman Chandler invited more than 700 people to a luncheon at the Biltmore Bowl ballroom in downtown Los Angeles, where he promised a special announcement.. 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. Otis Chandler will go down as one of the most important figures in newspaper history, said Dean Baquet, editor of the Los Angeles Times. 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.. After the series was published, Otis asked for an editorial criticizing the Birchers. I loved being a reporter. As much as Chandler remained interested in The Times, he immensely enjoyed his retirement years. And that apparently gave Mrs. Chandler the opening she needed. Three top editors asked Boyarsky not to read the statement aloud, fearing that it would further provoke an already enraged staff. 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. I wasnt satisfied Im that way whether Im out riding my bike or racing a car.. By his own count, Chandler had at least half a dozen brushes with death over the years, and that didnt include his bout with prostate cancer in 1989 or his mild heart attack in 1998. 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. I was a B student.). 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. 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. Periodically, Chandler rented the now-defunct Riverside Raceway for a day so he, Thomas and their friends could race their cars. Chandler, who had retired 19 years prior, sent his message directly to reporters, to the dismay of the newspaper's management. Landsberg did additional reporting and rewriting of the text. He had the papers support when he ran unsuccessfully for president in 1960. 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. 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. 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!. Otis shoveled fertilizer for the family fruit trees at an early age and was kept on such a modest allowance that even when he went to college, he later recalled, the most lavish transportation I could afford was half-interest in a secondhand motorcycle.. Although the decision stunned her, friends said they had long seen the breakup coming. Otis himself offered contradictory explanations of his mothers role in his promotion, befitting a mother-son relationship that had its share of paradox. But results were slow in coming, and many top-level executives left. Born in Los Angeles on Nov. 23, 1927, Chandler was the only son of Norman Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler. During Willes brief tenure as publisher he relinquished the job to Kathryn Downing in 1999 so he could concentrate his energies on Times Mirror he did initiate a number of controversial strategies designed to increase Times circulation and advertising revenue. He missed the day-to-day challenge and the interaction with the editors and with the news. Chandler had his own ways of blowing off such stress like getting behind the wheel of a turbocharged Porsche. At the age of 8, Chandler was thrown to the ground during a horseback riding lesson. 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. Seldom has a newspaper had such an opportunity to meld the best of three staffs. Together, he wrote to Johnson after the changing of the guard, we are going to push the New York Times off its perch.. Even when he was publisher, Chandler wasnt one of those workaholic bosses who could never let go. 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. [1], Chandler enrolled at his parents' alma mater, Stanford University, in 1946. 1 child. When Chandler was growing up, he lived with his parents on a 10-acre citrus ranch in Sierra Madre. The annual news department budget at The Times was $3.7.million when Chandler took over. In Los Angeles, while working in the fruit fields, he started a small delivery company that . Prep Rally is devoted to the SoCal high school sports experience, bringing you scores, stories and a behind-the-scenes look at what makes prep sports so popular. Chandler had always had an active life outside the newspaper business, and in his final years as publisher, close friends and associates knew that the lure of those interests combined with fatigue, restlessness, health problems and major changes in his personal life were inexorably leading him away from The Times. Chandlers primary role was to provide the impetus, framework and financial support for change, rather than dictating specifics. Chandler retired as publisher in 1980 at the age of 52 to become chairman of Times Mirror, reducing his involvement in the day-to-day operations of the company. 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. Doctors said his right arm, yanked from its socket by the impact, would be virtually useless for the rest of his life. 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. Chandlers grandfather and father followed Gen. Otis in the publishers chair. (Little) Chandler. 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. Chandler continued to meet regularly with Puerner and John Carroll, who became editor of The Times shortly after the Tribune purchased the paper and remained in that position until last summer. Newspapers are a mature, non-growth industry, vulnerable to cyclical economic downturns and increases in the cost of newsprint, he said. A year later, he moved again. Chandler had long felt that Willes hadnt shown enough respect for him and what he had accomplished. 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. 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.. Otis Ashmore Chandler (1891 - 1956) 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 also complained that the papers editor and publisher never try to come up with new ways to cut the deficit. With the Mirror still losing money, it had been Chandler who wanted it closed, and his father had reluctantly concurred. His mother rushed him to a hospital, where doctors initially reported he was dead. But he didnt disclose to other investors that he received $109,000 in finders fees and $373,000 in promotional shares of GeoTek stock for his efforts. The city editor, who had been hired during Chandlers heyday as publisher, said he felt an obligation to carry out his former boss wishes. Since mandatory retirement age for the publisher was then 65, that conveniently eliminated the 52-year-old Philip. How could I have been so stupid? On arrival, she encountered a doctor she knew, and he revived the boy with a shot of adrenaline in the heart. 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. As it turned out, however, several members of the Chandler family had begun to share Otis disenchantment with Willes, especially the companys lack of diversification, interest in new media and long-term strategic plan, as Chandlers sister, Camilla Chandler Frost, put it the morning the sale to Tribune was announced. The shift on the editorial page came as the region itself, once dependably Republican, was becoming less conservative. The outdoors is my second home, my chapel, my retreat, my great love in life.. When the Hearsts and Chandlers agreed to fold the two papers, The Times acquired a monopoly in the increasingly lucrative morning market, while Hearsts Los Angeles Herald-Express (renamed the Herald Examiner) was left with a monopoly in the increasingly problematic afternoon market. So did the shutdown in January 1962 of the Mirror and the Examiner, the morning Hearst newspaper. 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. Instead they always find new ways to spend money.. Growing up, Chandler had often said hed like to be a doctor, although he later conceded, I was never an outstanding scholar. When he left the Air Force in 1953, he had no clear sense of what he wanted to do with his life. The agreement made sense financially for The Times, but it proved to be a boon in another way as well. Only then did Chandler tell Thomas about himself and his family. Married Harry Chandler . But in 1968, the paper endorsed Democrat Alan Cranston for U.S. Senate over Republican Max Rafferty, whom it called an outspoken, militant conservative.. Nobody had ever heard of the Chandlers, he said later. When I asked what he did, he just said, I work at The Times,. Thomas recalled. About that time, Otis began telling Nick Williams, the editor of the paper, the kinds of improvements he envisioned making if and when he had the authority. 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. But he was hardly unaware of his familys powerful position. More than merely a newspaper with a conservative editorial policy, it was an openly partisan mouthpiece for the conservative wing of the Republican Party. 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. 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. Research genealogy for Otis Chandler of Mingo, West Virginia, as well as other members of the Chandler family, on Ancestry. My dad had already started to make improvements.. Since his first run for Congress in 1946, he had been championed by The Times as he successfully ran for U.S. Senate and then for the vice presidency on the Eisenhower ticket. Chandler was honored with a Lifetime of Achievement award. Elisha Graves Otis Print Family Tree Born 3 August 1811 - Halifax, Windham Co., VT Deceased 8 April 1861 - Yonkers, Westchester Co., NY,aged 49 years old Founder of the Otis Elevator Co. 1 file available Parents Stephen Otis 1773-1859 Phoebe Glynn 1778-1867 Spouses, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren Ultimately, he was able to do everything right-handed, he said, except serve hard in tennis.. He sought largely solitary recreational activities throughout his adult life surfing, lifting weights, racing, cycling, hunting. But Otis had certainly been aware of the family pressure. 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. 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. Chandler attributed his pursuit of solo athletics like shotputting and weightlifting to the same sources, saying, "No one could say that the team carried me or that the coach put me in because my name was Chandler". Critics also thought his position at the top of the citys power structure prevented The Times from aggressively investigating that establishment. During his tenure it would expand to 34 foreign and domestic bureaus. 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. [1] Chandler insisted that he wasnt giving up the journalistic chase or losing his competitive edge, simply assuming a larger corporate responsibility. 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 a time, when he was young, Chandler rode a bicycle several miles to and from the Polytechnic School in Pasadena. The conservative movement that would lead to Barry Goldwaters presidential candidacy in 1964 and to Ronald Reagans subsequent rise was in its nascence. 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. 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 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). I said something about wanting a weeks vacation first, but he wouldnt hear of it, Chandler said. Id work the graveyard shift for a week, then spend a week on days, then a week on the swing shift, then back to the graveyard shift, he recalled. [1], His son, Mike Chandler, was a race-car driver in the CART Championship Car series. 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. At 6-foot 3-inches (190cm) tall, after bulking-up to and 220 pounds he won the Pacific Coast Conference title and finished second in the nation during his senior year with a toss of 57 feet (17m), 63/47 of an inch while serving as his team's captain. [1], In 1990, Chandler was trampled by a musk ox in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Shaw, The Times longtime media critic, filed a draft of this obituary before his death Aug. 1. In October 1957, continuing his climb into the executive ranks, Chandler was named special assistant to his father. Both Thomas and Johnson said he hated being chairman. Constance Chandler 1896-1962. 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. Grandson of Harrison Gray Otis. 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. Chandler said there was no simple answer: The region was changing, the demographic was changing, the type of paper was changing, he said. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. In some ways, he was typical of the macho male of his era. He was the fourth and final member of the Chandler family to hold the paper's top position. Until shortly before his death in 1973, Chandlers father had helped insulate him from those protests. The two married in 1922, and had two children, Camilla and Otis, both born in 1927. For most of the first 80 years of its existence, the paper was such a journalistic laughingstock that humorist S.J. To grasp the breadth of the changes, it is necessary to understand what The Times had been. 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. 1. 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 Times, on his watch, consistently editorialized in favor of gun control, but Chandler himself was a strong advocate of the right to bear arms. 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. 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