As much as any other change at the paper, the arrival of Paul Conrad brilliant, sharp-penned and liberal served notice that an entirely new breed of Chandler was in charge. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Otis Chandler. Readers could be excused for thinking that only one political party existed in Southern California. Other family members had gathered at the Chandler home. 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. More than 15,000 readers canceled their subscriptions, and Chandlers breach with some members of his family was widened still further. Otis, meanwhile, still had no idea what his mother and father had in mind for him. The GeoTek affair also damaged Chandler physically. Chandler died at his home in Ojai about 4 a.m., according to Tom Johnson, a former publisher of The Times who was acting as a spokesman for the family. 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. While in college, he sometimes worked summers at the paper, most often moving printing plates and other heavy equipment. . The two married in 1922, and had two children, Camilla and Otis, both born in 1927. Norman Chandler was delighted by this practical evidence that Otis had absorbed his childhood lessons of prudence and thrift. But he was never specific, and the word publisher was never mentioned.. Three top editors asked Boyarsky not to read the statement aloud, fearing that it would further provoke an already enraged staff. Otis himself offered contradictory explanations of his mothers role in his promotion, befitting a mother-son relationship that had its share of paradox. His mother scooped him up and rushed to the hospital, steering the car with one hand and holding his hand with the other, frantically searching for a pulse. I said something about wanting a weeks vacation first, but he wouldnt hear of it, Chandler said. Landsberg did additional reporting and rewriting of the text. 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. His son was perfectly willing, indeed eager, to do and spend whatever was necessary to achieve journalistic respectability. 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. I was 50, and I didnt want to be unhappy for the rest of my life.. [1], In 1966 Chandler received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College. As a child, each year his parents held a memorial for the 1910 Los Angeles Times bombing, linked to political agitators, that killed 20 Times workers. 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. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. [1], Chandler was an enthusiastic athlete and thrill seeker, an image he actively cultivated. [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. 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. Well into his 70s, he maintained a long-distance bicycling regimen that few people half his age could attempt. 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. It is Marilyn Brant. His mother rushed him to a hospital, where doctors initially reported he was dead. 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. To put together his galaxy of star reporters, Otis Chandler employed what in much of the newspaper business amounts to a secret weapon money.. If you will, its too complicated.. 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. Its too big, its too stuffy. [1] 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. 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. Their first child was a boy named Norman after Chandler's father. And in January 1964, they hired a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist away from the Denver Post. Later he would briefly attend the Cate School boarding school in Carpinteria before his parents elected to send him east to attend Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. 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. The decision stunned the staff and outside observers, many of whom expected him to serve much longer. Son of Norman Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler Chandler was diagnosed seven months ago, although doctors had determined about a year earlier that he was suffering from some form of dementia, his wife said. Who can help student-athletes cash in? But in 1989, two months after Laventhol replaced Johnson as publisher, Day was removed. 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. Otis and Williams perhaps the ablest newspaper editor of his generation, in Halberstams words became a formidable team. Still, he wanted to be bigger and stronger, so shortly after graduation, he took up weightlifting. The only other possible publisher in the family, however, was Normans younger brother Philip, then general manager of The Times and a member of the Times Mirror board. As a student he competed in basketball, soccer, the high jump, running and weightlifting. He worked out daily, lifting weights in a gym he had built at The Times and improvising when he was traveling. 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. Sulzberger recalled decades later that he once walked into Chandlers office and found him hanging upside down in the doorway, like a bat. He also showed his father skills that went beyond the reportorial. Willes, he said in 1999, was basically undoing what I and my father and Franklin Murphy all did, dating back to 1958. Watkins Glen was to be one of the most enjoyable experiences of Chandlers life. Murray had helped create Sports Illustrated and was one of its stars. Despite the liberalization of The Times editorial page under Chandler, he remained moderate, even conservative, on many issues, feminism among them. 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. Sure, like any business executive, there were times when I would like to have been away from it all, free of responsibilities. He hunted. 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). Research genealogy for Otis Chandler of Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, as well as other members of the Chandler family, on Ancestry. 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. Chandler had had earlier problems with his health, suffering from prostate cancer in 1989 and a 1998 heart attack. [2] At Stanford he was a successful shot putter. Not only did it champion GOP candidates, its editors helped select them. 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. 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. 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. Respect and credibility for a newspaper is irreplaceable.. Chandlers reign as publisher was not an uninterrupted, 20-year victory lap. He foresaw the sprawling megalopolis that Los Angeles and its neighboring counties would become, and he wanted The Times to be the dominant paper from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border.. As a boy of 5 or 6, he had frequently accompanied his father to the office and slid down the chutes that were used to drop papers from the pressroom to the delivery trucks. 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. Chandler told his wife he wanted a divorce while the two were on vacation in Montana in 1978. 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. Updated: October 7, 2011 . Critics also thought his position at the top of the citys power structure prevented The Times from aggressively investigating that establishment. They saw the sinister hand of communism behind such government initiatives as fluoridation of the water supply and integration of the schools. 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. The Hearst paper was subsequently hit by a devastating strike and ceased publication in 1989. I decided it was time to be a little selfish, to give myself full time to the things Id always enjoyed doing in bits and pieces., He may also have been frustrated by his inability to reach his stated goal of supplanting the New York Times as the most widely admired American newspaper. Some at the Los Angeles Times felt that Chandlers sharp public criticism of management and the widespread attention it received played a role in several subsequent management decisions. [1], Times editorial page editor Anthony Day observed that Chandler "had been raised to be a prince". But in a letter to his mother 12 years later, Otis referred to her as that person who made it possible for me to provide leadership to The Times, adding: It was a tremendous gamble for you to take on any young man of 32. There was no mention of his father. 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. Norman Chandler 1899-1973. Many had led quietly productive lives outside the newspaper industry and had tried to keep their complaints about cousin Otis and The Times within the family circle. Although The Times had, on rare occasion, endorsed conservative Democrats for state legislative and U.S. House seats, the backing of a Democrat for such a high office was a momentous decision, Chandler said in a 2005 interview. Chandler realized that to build up The Times reputation, he had to demand fair and nonpartisan news coverage. Chandler, he said, loved being publisher. 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.. He attended Dartmouth College, and on a dare, he jumped into a vat of starch that had frozen over during winter, which led to severe pneumonia. But Otis had certainly been aware of the family pressure. At 71, he resumed playing tennis. When photographed for the cover of the literary magazine Atlantic Monthly he was depicted on a surfboard crafted from newspapers across a wave of dollar bills. Unlike his father, however, he had not insisted that his children follow him into leadership positions at The Times. 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 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. The shift on the editorial page came as the region itself, once dependably Republican, was becoming less conservative. This coincided with the shift of the paper's editorial stance from overtly conservative to independent. The change that ignited the biggest debate was Willes announced intention to blow up, with a bazooka, if necessary, the wall that had traditionally separated and insulated the newsroom of the paper from the business department to avoid conflicts of interest. There is something about him that suggests if Otis Chandler hadnt existed, Ernest Hemingway would have created him, the Christian Science Monitor said in 1980. It was clear to me that it meant a lot to him and that he didnt want to feel shut out.. But the Mirror continued to falter, and his parents decided they didnt want his first command to be that of a sinking ship. He was airlifted to a hospital. I think he fears that he would die if he werent building something.. Was the daughter of General Harrison Gray Otis and Secretary of the Times-Mirror Company (formerly the publishing company of the Los Angeles Times ). In 1995, at age 68, he crashed his motorcycle into a tractor while in New Zealand. 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. Recovery was slow but complete, and it was during that period of recuperation, Chandler said many years later, that he did a lot of thinking and somehow developed my competitiveness.. 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. Father of Private; Michael Otis "Mike" Chandler; Norman Brant Chandler; Private and Private For the first time in his life, he found his personal integrity seriously questioned. Otis enthusiastically supported Michael's racing career until a near-fatal crash while qualifying at Indianapolis in 1984. Ex-husband of Marilyn "Missy" Chandler Stewart 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.. 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. [1], Chandler enrolled at his parents' alma mater, Stanford University, in 1946. 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. 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. . 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. 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. There Chandler spent much of his time alone, later in life unable to name a single childhood friend. He was 70 then, mandatory retirement age for members of the board of directors. Chandler knew and trusted Burke. I was more upset with myself than with Jack Burke, he said years later. He sought largely solitary recreational activities throughout his adult life surfing, lifting weights, racing, cycling, hunting. Many invested with Burke, who raised more than $30 million among 2,200 individuals over eight years. In October 1999, The Times published a special issue of its Sunday magazine devoted entirely to Staples Center, the sports arena and entertainment venue then about to open in downtown Los Angeles. (1924 - 1972) Jump to: Bio graphy Family Photos Comments Obit uary. 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. Lewy body disease is a brain disorder combining some of the most debilitating characteristics of Parkinsons and Alzheimers diseases. 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. 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. At the same time, he shifted the papers editorial page philosophy from the extreme right to slightly left of center. As it happened, the consultants also recommended that, to ensure stability, the new publisher be capable of holding the job at least 15 years. In October 1957, continuing his climb into the executive ranks, Chandler was named special assistant to his father. [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. This was a flagrant violation of the independence of the editorial department, and it placed the credibility of the paper in jeopardy. Despite the enormous difference in their socioeconomic status, the two remained close friends for more than 30 years. Going with newspapers only is a flawed strategy, a dangerous philosophy that puts The Times at risk. His mother rushed him to a second hospital, where a doctor she knew revived him with an adrenaline shot to the heart. He was turned down because he was 17 pounds heavier than the maximum allowed for jet pilots, so he starved himself and quickly lost the weight. 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. I was strictly a tall, skinny blond kid from California.. 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. On March 5, 1980, Chandler announced that Johnson would become the fifth publisher of The Times and the first since the papers infancy who was not a member of the Otis or Chandler families. How could I have been so stupid? The corporate air was a little too rarified for him, said Swayze, his secretary. 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. Away from the paper, off the board, with most of his Times Mirror stock in trust, he no longer had the power or the inclination to do anything concrete, not even as a fourth third-generation newspapering Chandler. The youngest son, Michael, also worked in the papers production departments, ultimately taking early retirement in a companywide buyout. 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. (Little) Chandler. 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. We treated him as an insider and told him what was happening, Carroll said. He was the fourth and final member of the Chandler family to hold the paper's top position. By the time of graduation, he weighed 200 pounds. In the midst of a horseback riding lesson, he was thrown hard to the ground. Numerous top Times reporters left the paper, many to join the New York Times or to pursue other interests. 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. Philip Chandler resigned from the Times Mirror board seven months later. [1], Chandler died at his home in Ojai at the age of 78 due to the effects of Lewy body disease, seven months after his diagnosis. I think he saw leaving Missy as getting his freedom in one way, said David Laventhol, publisher of The Times from 1989 to 1994. 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 merely a newspaper with a conservative editorial policy, it was an openly partisan mouthpiece for the conservative wing of the Republican Party. 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. They asked me a lot of questions and made me feel welcome again, Chandler said a few days later. Newspapers are a mature, non-growth industry, vulnerable to cyclical economic downturns and increases in the cost of newsprint, he said. 1 child. Ruth Chandler 1897-1987. Chandler tried to make amends, claiming he had been misquoted, but the damage had been done. In 1995, after moving to another ranch in Oregon, he announced that hed found paradise. 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. Only then did Chandler tell Thomas about himself and his family. Otis said he wanted a more assertive, more liberal editorial page, Day said. 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.. The stock price tripled during his first three years at the company, and circulation grew modestly. 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. 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