There was widespread speculation after he gave up his corporate titles that he had been gently nudged aside by long-disgruntled family members. I occasionally hunt with a bow I am a saltwater fisherman and dry-fly freshwater fisherman, a gun collector, a sometime skeet and target shooter, an avid backpacker, outdoor photographer, trophy skinner, wild game gourmet but a lousy cook. No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did, David Halberstam wrote in The Powers That Be, his 1979 book about the news media. Otis Chandler will go down as one of the most important figures in newspaper history, said Dean Baquet, editor of the Los Angeles Times. He was rejected anyway; his shoulders and hips were still too big to fit into the cockpit of a jet. His first year, he increased it 45%. Heres a man who led a full life, said Otis Booth, his cousin and longtime hunting companion. Otis . But he also had a princes sense of entitlement, a sense that perhaps I dont have to do this every damn day, he added. Newspapers are a mature, non-growth industry, vulnerable to cyclical economic downturns and increases in the cost of newsprint, he said. He once said that she had received and sought more recognition than she deserved for many changes at the paper, including his own rise, and that his father had long been underestimated. 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. But William Thomas, who was Times editor when Chandler made his decision to step down as publisher, said he remembered sitting in a taxi with him in Madrid in 1975 before hed met Whitaker, when he was still married to Missy and hearing Otis say he wanted to give up the publishers job in three to five years. Direct, decisive and at times startlingly frank in both his personal and professional lives, Chandler told people what he expected of them, and he didnt have much patience with failure. At the time of her death in 1997, she had eight grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. Connect to 5,000+ Chandler profiles on Geni, Norman Chandler, Dorothy Chandler (born Buffum), Cause of death: Motor neuron disease, Dementia with Lewy bodies - Feb 27 2006 - Ojai, 1930 - Los Angeles (Districts 0001-0250), Los Angeles, California, USA, 1940 - 800 West Orange Grove, Arcadia, Manrovia Township, Los Angeles, California, USA, June 18 1951 - Los Angeles, California, United States, Feb 27 2006 - Meiners Oaks, Ventura, California, United States, Nov 23 1927 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, Norman Chandler, Dorothy Chandler (geb. Former Times publisher Tom Johnson, left, greets Otis Chandler at a USC Annenberg Distinguished Achievement Awards dinner in January 2000. As long as I knew him, Otis had an adventurous spirit and the courage to pursue it.. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. In 1998, Chandler dissolved his last official ties with The Times. Were going to spend as much money as it takes to be the best newspaper in the country and I mean, specifically, [better than] the New York Times, Chandler said in remarks to the papers Washington Bureau in the mid-1960s. 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. But it was clear that he had felt a growing personal animosity toward Willes, and he saw the takeover as a repudiation of Willes and a vindication of his own criticism. In one of their biggest coups, they brought in Robert J. Donovan, the Washington Bureau chief of the New York Herald-Tribune and one of the most respected journalists in the country, to be chief of the expanded Times bureau in the capital. 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.. Under Otis Chandler, The Times became a critically lauded newspaper. 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. The agreement made sense financially for The Times, but it proved to be a boon in another way as well. They also gave me quiet time so I could really think. 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. [1], His son, Mike Chandler, was a race-car driver in the CART Championship Car series. In 1999 almost 20 years after he left the publishers office and with no official ties to the paper anymore its standing in the national journalistic firmament was still so important to him that he emerged from a largely self-imposed exile and issued a strong denunciation of top Times and Times Mirror executives. 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.. 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. Norman Chandler died in 1973. So did the shutdown in January 1962 of the Mirror and the Examiner, the morning Hearst newspaper. The Games took place in 1952. 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. 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. Its not their kind of newspaper, he said. Because he had five children and heavy corporate responsibilities, his wife tried to dissuade him from this favored leisure time activity. I wasnt satisfied Im that way whether Im out riding my bike or racing a car.. 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. 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. Many invested with Burke, who raised more than $30 million among 2,200 individuals over eight years. Ex-husband of Marilyn "Missy" Chandler Stewart He died in May 1972 at age 47. 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. For several years, the pair had enjoyed a Saturday ritual. Chandler attended Stanford, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Sigma Rho chapter). He saw them both as restraints on his freedom. [citation needed]. 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. 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. Historical records and family trees related to Chandler Otis. Periodically, Chandler rented the now-defunct Riverside Raceway for a day so he, Thomas and their friends could race their cars. 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. Not only did it champion GOP candidates, its editors helped select them. 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 people wondered if, in retrospect, Chandlers entire tenure at The Times had compromised his passion for freedom if he would have been happier had he been outside all the time, surfing, hunting, riding and racing, instead of being stuffed into a suit, sitting behind a desk, making speeches and attending meetings. 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. Father of Private; Michael Otis "Mike" Chandler; Norman Brant Chandler; Private and Private Otis Chandler (November 23, 1927 - February 27, 2006) was the publisher of the Los Angeles Times between 1960 and 1980, leading a large expansion of the newspaper and its ambitions. 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 And it became clear over the years that he did not have any such intention. Did The Times change out of foresight or luck? Otis Chandler was born on July 24, 1924. Chandler knew and trusted Burke. 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. 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. The New York Times even published an editorial under the headline The Truth According to Otis Chandler.. Buff Chandler was the daughter of a prominent Long Beach family, owners of the successful Buffums department store. 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. Son of Norman Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler 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. They never thought she was good enough to marry Norman, and she was out to prove them wrong, her son said several years after her death. 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. A year later, he moved again. 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. To put together his galaxy of star reporters, Otis Chandler employed what in much of the newspaper business amounts to a secret weapon money.. My dad had already started to make improvements.. The youngest son, Michael, also worked in the papers production departments, ultimately taking early retirement in a companywide buyout. He was convinced that he had taken The Times about as far as he could, and he wanted more challenges and more freedom. Chandler was elated; many who knew him well and saw him after that race said they had rarely seen him happier. Harry Chandler was born in Landaff, New Hampshire to Moses K. and Emma J. Norman Chandler 1899-1973. He set his sights on a goal making The Times one of the two or three great American papers and he pulled it off.. 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. 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. She was athletic, she surfed, she hunted and she was always vying for equal status or greater status than Otis, said Howard Gilmore, one of Chandlers longtime hunting companions. 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. He was also consumed by another passion: buying classic cars for his museum. 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. His father, publisher of The Times from 1944 to 1960, had worked in the fields of the familys Tejon Ranch when he was a boy, so he saw no reason to spare his son from physical labor or spoil him with money. Chandlers primary role was to provide the impetus, framework and financial support for change, rather than dictating specifics. Doctors estimated that his dislocated right arm would never fully heal, but, citing a disciplined training regimen, Chandler claimed to regain virtually all use. He was 70 then, mandatory retirement age for members of the board of directors. He hunted. Husband of Bettina Chandler He died in 2002. Retired Times publisher Otis Chandlers car collection included a 1931 Duesenberg LeBaron Special Phaeton. 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. 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. Chandler was no typical rookie. He was particularly resentful of Willes frequent promise to reinvent the newspaper and Willes and Downings unwillingness to consult him. 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. Chandler's family owned a stake in the newspaper since his great-grandfather Harrison Gray Otis joined the company in 1882, the year after the Los Angeles Daily Times began publication. But Tribune had long had Times Mirror in its corporate sights. For most of the first 80 years of its existence, the paper was such a journalistic laughingstock that humorist S.J. 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. 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. Asked in a 1997 television interview whether he was satisfied with his legacy, he replied: I wanted to be No. 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. In August 1972, the Wall Street Journal broke the story, which dragged on for several years before a federal court sentenced Burke to 30 months in prison. [1], Chandler enrolled at his parents' alma mater, Stanford University, in 1946. He expected the very best of himself and of those around him.. Although all three of his sons worked at the paper for varying periods, none ascended into the top executive ranks. 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. If you will, its too complicated.. 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. Willes made several major cutbacks and refocused the companys efforts on newspapers, saying Times Mirror should concentrate on the business it knew best. 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. He was the fourth and final member of the Chandler family to hold the paper's top position. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Two years later, he was made marketing manager of The Times. Chandler was an exotic, at times mythic figure among the nations newspaper executives, most of whose exertions and excursions outside the boardroom were generally limited to golf courses and cruise ships. As it happened, the consultants also recommended that, to ensure stability, the new publisher be capable of holding the job at least 15 years. 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. I was strictly a tall, skinny blond kid from California.. [2] In 1945, her husband became publisher of the Times, a position he held until he was succeeded by their son, Otis, in 1960. He said I had to be well-rounded and implied that it was so I could ultimately take some executive position. 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). They wanted to impeach Earl Warren, chief justice of the United States. 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. I think he saw leaving Missy as getting his freedom in one way, said David Laventhol, publisher of The Times from 1989 to 1994. 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. In 1995, after moving to another ranch in Oregon, he announced that hed found paradise. Marian Otis Chandler (1866-1952), Born Emma Marian Otis. 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. He wanted the paper to take what he called more balls out positions, and he wanted us to change our position and editorialize against the war in Vietnam.. Theyll have to carry me out of here feet first, he said. 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. 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. Otis Chandler (November 23, 1927 - February 27, 2006) was the publisher of the Los Angeles Times between 1960 and 1980, leading a large expansion of the newspaper and its ambitions. 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. Chandler welcomed Tribune in part because he admired its management and strategy and in part because he thought its diverse holdings four newspapers, 22 television stations and an aggressive Internet presence would help stabilize The Times financial position in the new century. The two had hunted together, and Burke was the godfather of Chandlers eldest daughter, Cathleen. This was the only big investment I ever made, and I didnt do any investigation of it beforehand. 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. 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. How could I have been so stupid? FOR THE RECORD:In an earlier version of this article, the date of the Helsinki Olympic Games was incorrectly given as 1948. 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 said to me many times that he hadnt wanted to come to the paper in the first place, but he felt an obligation to his family to do it, said Robert F. Erburu, who succeeded Chandler as Times Mirror chairman. 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. But in 1972, he suffered his most damaging blow and it was, to a significant extent, self-inflicted. 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. More than 15,000 readers canceled their subscriptions, and Chandlers breach with some members of his family was widened still further. 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. Despite his family's wealth, Chandler's father insisted that he perform field labor and did not spoil him with gifts. But after about 18 months, I accepted an invitation to his house for dinner, and when I drove up to this huge mansion in San Marino, I thought, Holy cow! When I got inside, I said, Well, just what do you do at The Times?.. Chandler himself invested more than $200,000 of his personal funds. A few weeks or months after I became publisher, my mother told me, I used to tell your father that I thought you were ready, but he wouldnt listen to me,. he said. They owned vast landholdings and used their influence with elected officials and the business elite to shape the regions development. Thats why we diversified the company and went into television and cable and forest products and books and medical and legal publishing.. Otis Ashmore Chandler (1891 - 1956) 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. He always has to have a project. While he was hunting in Mozambique in 1964, an elephant charged him, his wife and their guide. By 1962, Palmer was gone and the gubernatorial race between Brown and Richard Nixon was covered primarily by two new reporters: Richard Bergholz, who had come from the Mirror, and Carl Greenberg, from Hearsts Los Angeles Examiner. Despite that, Chandler did not envision journalism as a career during his youth; instead, he often said he would like to become a doctor. 2443 E Peach Tree Drive, Chandler, AZ 85249 (MLS# 6525796) is a Single Family property with 3 bedrooms and 2 full bathrooms. 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. I apologized to my wife and my children and my mother and father and everyone on the board and all my department heads.. One had only to visit the mens room in his car and wildlife museum its walls covered with posters of scantily clad women draped over shiny sports cars to realize that his ultra-masculinity wasnt limited to guns, barbells, fast cars and motorcycles. Hes restless. 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. Chandler tried to make amends, claiming he had been misquoted, but the damage had been done. [1], On a 1964 safari in Mozambique, an elephant charged his party. Southern California was considered a cultural backwater, and despite his familys vast wealth and power, Chandler felt like a hick. I said he was a great man who made this paper what it was, Boyarsky would say later. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Otis Chandler. Collection Title: Chandler Family History Collection Digitized by California Audiovisual Preservation Project. Chandler later praised his editor for frequently reminding a young publisher that you cant change a whole paper overnight.. Grandson of Harrison Gray Otis. The conservative movement that would lead to Barry Goldwaters presidential candidacy in 1964 and to Ronald Reagans subsequent rise was in its nascence. They resented my position at the L.A. Times and felt there were a lot of things I could have done differently.. Records may include photos, original documents, family history, relatives, specific dates, locations and full names. Chandler said there was no simple answer: The region was changing, the demographic was changing, the type of paper was changing, he said. He was initially miserable; the other students all seemed richer, better-educated and more sophisticated. I said something about wanting a weeks vacation first, but he wouldnt hear of it, Chandler said. Laventhol, Johnson and Thomas, among others, agreed that Chandler was just about the only member of his family who was interested in the social issues he mentioned in Vanity Fair, and they shared his anxiety about the threat he said the familys indifference posed to his legacy and to The Times. Chandlers wife, Bettina, was with him. In Los Angeles, while working in the fruit fields, he started a small delivery company that . Chandler always denied any conflict of interest, and he invariably emerged from these controversies with his reputation for personal integrity intact. And in January 1964, they hired a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist away from the Denver Post. The shift on the editorial page came as the region itself, once dependably Republican, was becoming less conservative. I think he fears that he would die if he werent building something.. In the 1980 speech, he complained that he felt increasingly like an outcast. Landsberg did additional reporting and rewriting of the text. . Ultimately, there was little that Chandler could or would do to influence the fate of The Times beyond this brief but dramatic entry into the fray. 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 remained an avid reader of the paper. But the series also served notice that The Times was in the process of becoming a different and much better newspaper. At the same time, he shifted the papers editorial page philosophy from the extreme right to slightly left of center. Updated: October 7, 2011 . They would race their cars down the Pasadena Freeway at 140 mph in the predawn hours en route to weightlifting sessions at the Times gym and double cheeseburgers at Tommys, just west of downtown. 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