Southern California was considered a cultural backwater, and despite his familys vast wealth and power, Chandler felt like a hick. Three years after that, he began construction on a 5,500-square-foot home in Ojai, about 30 minutes from his museum. 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. I was strictly a tall, skinny blond kid from California.. 'It was three outside members of the [Times Mirror] board who persuaded him to do it Unlike his father, however, he had not insisted that his children follow him into leadership positions at The Times. [1] 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. Hes restless. Harry Chandler was born in Landaff, New Hampshire to Moses K. and Emma J. Of all the political figures to benefit from The Times partisanship over the years, none had been more favored, or more successful, than Nixon. But even though the paper and the company has been sold, it feels to me like Im home again.. The Chandlers had no rival as the most powerful family in Southern California. Reporter Gene Blake produced a five-part expose, written in calm, matter-of-fact language. But he also worried about his legacy, and he increasingly spoke critically, if only in private at first, about his unhappiness with the direction of Times Mirror and the paper under Mark Willes, a former executive at General Mills who had been hired to succeed Erburu as chairman and chief executive in 1995 and also assumed the title of Times publisher when Richard T. Schlosberg III retired unexpectedly in 1997. 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. But he was hardly unaware of his familys powerful position. 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. 1. Otis . For the first time in his life, he found his personal integrity seriously questioned. FOR THE RECORD:In an earlier version of this article, the date of the Helsinki Olympic Games was incorrectly given as 1948. One cannot successfully run a great newspaper like the Los Angeles Times with executives in the top two positions, both of whom have no newspaper experience at any level, Chandler said. Updated: October 7, 2011 . Nobody had ever heard of the Chandlers, he said later. Thats more than I ever heard from Mark Willes.. 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. Missy and I had had a good marriage, but we just werent getting along anymore in the last 10 years. 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. He moved gradually at first, then much more quickly, especially after hiring Day, who joined the paper as chief editorial writer in 1969 and later became editor of the editorial pages. Buff Chandler was the daughter of a prominent Long Beach family, owners of the successful Buffums department store. He told me, You created a great newspaper, Otis, and well make you proud,. Chandler said. Chandler immediately excelled, breaking the school freshman record with a toss of 48 feet, 761/47 inches. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. Murray had helped create Sports Illustrated and was one of its stars. 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. The Mirror was losing $30,000 a week, and Otis sent his father a confidential memo urging that a strong business manager be hired. 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. His goal, he once quipped, was to make it a militant middle-of-the-road paper.. 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. 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. The youngest son, Michael, also worked in the papers production departments, ultimately taking early retirement in a companywide buyout. Chandler realized that to build up The Times reputation, he had to demand fair and nonpartisan news coverage. By the time of graduation, he weighed 200 pounds. He hunted. [1], In 1966 Chandler received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College. Among them: the mate of the musk ox that nearly killed him in 1990. Chandler was the great-grandson of Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, the blustery Civil War veteran who bought part-ownership of The Times in 1882, a year after it began publication, and was its publisher for 35 years. By the time he enrolled at Stanford University in 1946, he weighed about 200 pounds. He hired the best people he could find and gave them the freedom, the resources and the challenge to take a newspaper that had been mocked as partisan, parochial and inferior and turn it into a publication that could no longer be sneered at. Brian Lamb, right, founder and CEO of C-Span, interviews Otis Chandler in 2001. Sulzberger recalled decades later that he once walked into Chandlers office and found him hanging upside down in the doorway, like a bat. Staffing in Washington and Sacramento was expanded. The annual news department budget at The Times was $3.7.million when Chandler took over. The agreement made sense financially for The Times, but it proved to be a boon in another way as well. . The Times, he would later say, was very much in his blood even then. 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. Because he had five children and heavy corporate responsibilities, his wife tried to dissuade him from this favored leisure time activity. Chandler cared deeply about how The Times was regarded by East Coast opinion-makers, and more than 40 years after his father first took him to a national convention of newspaper publishers, he could still recall, with an edge in his voice, how clear it was that The Times was regarded as a bad newspaper from a hick town.. They didnt like the L.A. Times, he said in the 2005 interview. 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. 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. But in 1968, the paper endorsed Democrat Alan Cranston for U.S. Senate over Republican Max Rafferty, whom it called an outspoken, militant conservative.. I think he saw leaving Missy as getting his freedom in one way, said David Laventhol, publisher of The Times from 1989 to 1994. While in college, he sometimes worked summers at the paper, most often moving printing plates and other heavy equipment. While he was hunting in Mozambique in 1964, an elephant charged him, his wife and their guide. 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. That was far from the only example of Chandlers reversal of long-held dogma at The Times. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. Otis Chandler will go down as one of the most important figures in newspaper history, said Dean Baquet, editor of the Los Angeles Times. [1], In 1998, at age 71, Chandler suffered minor head injuries when he spun out a Ferrari automobile on the road in Oxnard. From the start, he wrote periodic first-person columns, prominently displayed in the front section of the paper, musing about the life of an athlete or the quirks of an outboard motor. So did the shutdown in January 1962 of the Mirror and the Examiner, the morning Hearst newspaper. 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.. 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. A public memorial will be held Monday at All Saints Church in Pasadena. 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.. And, like most men of his stature, he was on the boards of several civic organizations and served on a variety of local and national commissions and committees. In Los Angeles, while working in the fruit fields, he started a small delivery company that . 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. I apologized to my wife and my children and my mother and father and everyone on the board and all my department heads.. But it was Otis Chandler a world-class shotputter in college and a fierce competitor in every arena he entered who took charge of a paper that for decades had generated almost as much ridicule as revenue and transformed it into one of the best newspapers in the country. Alberta Chandler, the wife of Chandlers uncle (and rival) Philip, was a prominent member of the Birch Society, and she and Philip had played host to Birch Society President Robert Welch. His father made sure that Chandler experienced work in all sections of the organization, assigning him to jobs in the industrial production of the paper, business management, clerical administration, and the news-gathering operation.[1]. He was 70 then, mandatory retirement age for members of the board of directors. How could I have been so stupid? Although all three of his sons worked at the paper for varying periods, none ascended into the top executive ranks. In 1960, he became publisher of the Los Angeles Times. That perception embarrassed Chandler, and when he took over as publisher a few years later, it became the driving force behind his commitment to remake The Times. When stories in local alternative weeklies, followed by the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, disclosed details of the deal, the newsroom erupted in protest, circulating petitions and demanding an apology from Downing, the publisher, who had signed the original founding partner agreement. My trips gave me a balance, a perspective, he said. Willes, he said in 1999, was basically undoing what I and my father and Franklin Murphy all did, dating back to 1958. 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. 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. Otis enthusiastically supported Michael's racing career until a near-fatal crash while qualifying at Indianapolis in 1984. Column: 15 minutes of fame flies by. [1], "Oats" was Chandler's nickname within the family. The most traumatic experience of Chandlers childhood one that assumed mythic proportions as he grew toward adulthood came when he was 8. 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. A year later, he moved again. The statement was a stinging and unprecedented rebuke of Willes and Downing. Chandler said he wanted to hunt only the rarest and the biggest and the best, and he killed more than 100 such animals 10-foot brown bears and polar bears, lions and musk ox, wild antelope and mountain sheep many of which he had mounted on the walls of a trophy room in the home he shared with his first wife in San Marino. Victims suffer from severe dementia, as well as the stiffness, tremors and impaired movements characteristic of Parkinsons. He always has to have a project. 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. I think he fears that he would die if he werent building something.. When he strides out of a meeting to shake hands, it is like looking up at a California redwood., Anthony Day, The Times editorial page editor from 1971 until 1989, once said: After I had been working for Otis for a few years, it occurred to me that I was working for a prince, a man who had been raised to be a prince.. As long as I knew him, Otis had an adventurous spirit and the courage to pursue it.. Chandlers grandfather and father followed Gen. Otis in the publishers chair. On arrival, she encountered a doctor she knew, and he revived the boy with a shot of adrenaline in the heart. [1], In 1990, Chandler was trampled by a musk ox in the Northwest Territories of Canada. But as the children grew up and she had more time available, she embarked on a career of her own she got womens lib is how Chandler put it and that exacerbated tensions between them. He was the fourth and final member of the Chandler family to hold the paper's top position. [1], Chandler first attended the Polytechnic School in Pasadena, often making his commute by bicycle. It wasnt meeting Bettina that did it, even though Missy thinks so, Chandler said many years later, referring to Marilyn Chandler by her nickname. For a time, when he was young, Chandler rode a bicycle several miles to and from the Polytechnic School in Pasadena. 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. 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. Thats not in my nature, he said. 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. He said I had to be well-rounded and implied that it was so I could ultimately take some executive position. Even when he was publisher, Chandler wasnt one of those workaholic bosses who could never let go. Philip Chandler resigned from the Times Mirror board seven months later. 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.. 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. He died in 2002. The next evening, a Friday, his father grinning like a Cheshire cat, Chandler would always remember handed him a sheet of paper. 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. Brother of Camilla Chandler, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis_Chandler. When I asked what he did, he just said, I work at The Times,. Thomas recalled. But there is nothing as fascinating as the newspaper business, and I cant imagine any challenge more satisfying than the work we did to improve The Times.. In a cover story on Chandler in 1967, Newsweek said, In the six years since his father made him publisher of The Times, Chandler has staged one of the most remarkable palace revolutions in U.S. journalism. Not once did the article refer to Brown by name. 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 wrote a statement, dictated it to Bill Boyarsky, then city editor, and asked that it be read aloud to the newsroom staff. 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. Despite that, Chandler did not envision journalism as a career during his youth; instead, he often said he would like to become a doctor. But most of his friends and associates said he didnt really have his heart in his new jobs. Thomas, who was among the editors brought over from the Mirror, said he believed that the windfall of local talent was as responsible for The Times subsequent success as the hiring of big guns from the East. After the series was published, Otis asked for an editorial criticizing the Birchers. By the time he left the publishers office, it had increased tenfold during his tenure. He quickly increased the budget of the paper, allowing it to expand its coverage. [2] At Stanford he was a successful shot putter. But the Mirror continued to falter, and his parents decided they didnt want his first command to be that of a sinking ship. The conservative movement that would lead to Barry Goldwaters presidential candidacy in 1964 and to Ronald Reagans subsequent rise was in its nascence. Married Harry Chandler . Readers could be excused for thinking that only one political party existed in Southern California. . Its not their kind of newspaper, he said. With the Mirror still losing money, it had been Chandler who wanted it closed, and his father had reluctantly concurred. [2] In 1945, her husband became publisher of the Times, a position he held until he was succeeded by their son, Otis, in 1960. The Dowling Family Tree with over half a million relatives,contains thousands of pictures and over four thousand GeneaStars.We are all related! 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. But in 1972, he suffered his most damaging blow and it was, to a significant extent, self-inflicted. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. 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. Norman Chandler (1899-1973), Publisher of the Los Angeles Times. But by 1962, The Times had become a different institution. Nixon, by all accounts, was stunned by the turnabout. 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. Chandlers reign as publisher was not an uninterrupted, 20-year victory lap. Historical records and family trees related to Chandler Otis. 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. In some ways, he was typical of the macho male of his era. If a newspaper, even a great newspaper like the Los Angeles Times, loses credibility with its community, with its readers, with its advertisers, with its shareholders, that is probably the most serious circumstance that I can possibly envision. Otis Chandler died at age 51 years old in March 1971. 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. 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. Otis Chandler, whose vision and determination as publisher of the Los Angeles Times from 1960 to 1980 catapulted the paper from mediocrity into the front ranks of American journalism, died today of a degenerative illness called Lewy body disease. He eventually recovered from serious head injuries. Chandler tried to make amends, claiming he had been misquoted, but the damage had been done. Williams was 21 years older than Chandler and often pulled in his reins. Word that Chandler was breaking his silence ricocheted through the newsroom. This coincided with the shift of the paper's editorial stance from overtly conservative to independent. [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. (1924 - 1972) Jump to: Bio graphy Family Photos Comments Obit uary. [4], He was not involved in negotiations by other members of the Chandler family to sell The Times to Tribune Company, a clear sign of how his influence had eroded. 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. 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. [1], On a 1964 safari in Mozambique, an elephant charged his party. Wall Street responded favorably. They never forgave her for her apparent role in Otis ascension over Philip. 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. 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. 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. Both Thomas and Johnson said he hated being chairman. 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. The stories described the Birchers extremist tactics and positions and, largely through their own words, depicted them as a threat to, rather than a defender of, the American way of life. 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