Chandler had his own ways of blowing off such stress like getting behind the wheel of a turbocharged Porsche. 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. Such special issues were financial windfalls for the Times, generating a record $2 million in ad revenue. 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. For most of the first 80 years of its existence, the paper was such a journalistic laughingstock that humorist S.J. He had married his college sweetheart, Marilyn Brant having proposed to her on his 23rd birthday on the seventh hole of the Pebble Beach golf course and they had a baby boy (Norman, after Otis father) but no plans and no substantial income. I never understood how he could just opt out like that., But Chandler, asked often about his decision to leave, said: I gave 40 years of my life to The Times and Times Mirror. I wasnt satisfied Im that way whether Im out riding my bike or racing a car.. 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. But by then, he had so little real power and so little influence with the members of his family who controlled the paper that when they decided four months later to sell Times Mirror to Tribune Co. of Chicago, he said he hadnt even known about the negotiations until he heard rumors, nothing more, two days before the deal was consummated. He lifted weights three times a week in his home gym. Soon there was talk of Otis becoming publisher of the Mirror when he finished his training program most likely as one of the final steps before he became publisher of The Times. [1], Chandler enrolled at his parents' alma mater, Stanford University, in 1946. 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. Nothing but my kids is more important to me than the Los Angeles Times, he said in 1999. 1. Thats when I decided this was the business for me.. 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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 Almost 20 years after their divorce, the happily remarried Marilyn Brant DeYoung said she didnt think shed been competitive with Chandler, except on the tennis court, where I did get upset when he beat me. She said they had a wonderful marriage, and he was an involved father, especially when he was younger, before he was publisher.. Willes, he said in 1999, was basically undoing what I and my father and Franklin Murphy all did, dating back to 1958. 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. By the time Thomas became editor in 1971, many of the major changes had been made, resistance had greatly diminished and Chandler was stepping back to take a broader view. There was widespread speculation after he gave up his corporate titles that he had been gently nudged aside by long-disgruntled family members. I was strictly a tall, skinny blond kid from California.. Southern California was considered a cultural backwater, and despite his familys vast wealth and power, Chandler felt like a hick. I must confess, he said, I am getting darn tired of defending myself as a hunting person.. 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. Murray had helped create Sports Illustrated and was one of its stars. Heres a man who led a full life, said Otis Booth, his cousin and longtime hunting companion. He was the fourth and final member of the Chandler family to hold the paper's top position. In 1960, he became publisher of the Los Angeles Times. He lost part of the big toe on his left foot, saw another toe severely damaged and the rest of the foot became largely numb. On it, neatly typed, was a seven-year executive training program, scheduled to begin that Sunday night. Thirty years later, he could still recall receiving a message from a fellow surfer one morning in the late 1960s telling him that waves were cresting at 12 to 15 feet off Dana Point the largest Southern California surf of my lifetime, he said. 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. (Little) Chandler. 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.. After graduating from Stanford, he tried to enroll in an Air Force training program. Sierra Canyon proves to be too much for Taft in Division I regional basketball opener, High school soccer: Southern California Regional results and updated pairings, High school basketball: Southern California and Northern California Regional results and updated pairings, Clippers still seeking right roster combination as they fall to Timberwolves. He also showed his father skills that went beyond the reportorial. He always has to have a project. The GeoTek affair also damaged Chandler physically. Not long after, he left his wife, and three years later a year after he moved out of the Times publishers office he and Whitaker, 12 years his junior, were married. He said he didnt regret the 40 years he spent here. 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. When I asked what he did, he just said, I work at The Times,. Thomas recalled. He surfed. 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. 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?.. The next evening, a Friday, his father grinning like a Cheshire cat, Chandler would always remember handed him a sheet of paper. Norman Chandler, then near his 60th birthday, saw the logic in the change. At the same time, he shifted the papers editorial page philosophy from the extreme right to slightly left of center. The city editor, who had been hired during Chandlers heyday as publisher, said he felt an obligation to carry out his former boss wishes. They never forgave her for her apparent role in Otis ascension over Philip. The 1962 gubernatorial campaign was another. 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. One of the first examples came in 1961, when The Times hired Jim Murray as a sports columnist. The disease is known for its fast progression. 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. He was featured on the cover of sporting magazines like Road & Track, Strength and Health, and Safari Club. 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. As a student he competed in basketball, soccer, the high jump, running and weightlifting. ADVERTISEMENT BY ANCESTRY.COM. 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. 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. At 71, he resumed playing tennis. Shaw, The Times longtime media critic, filed a draft of this obituary before his death Aug. 1. He said it was good for his back.. 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. But he never interfered with an editorial decision, Thomas said, never tried to tell me how a story should be written or edited or played, or how a page should look.. Since mandatory retirement age for the publisher was then 65, that conveniently eliminated the 52-year-old Philip. 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. Watkins Glen was to be one of the most enjoyable experiences of Chandlers life. It was clear to me that it meant a lot to him and that he didnt want to feel shut out.. 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. Constance Chandler 1896-1962. 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. The two men introduced themselves as J.T. and Oats (Chandlers longtime family nickname), struck up a conversation about motorcycles and soon began dirt-biking together. 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. Ruth Chandler 1897-1987. [citation needed]. Among them: the mate of the musk ox that nearly killed him in 1990. 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. Chandler was honored with a Lifetime of Achievement award. Brian Lamb, right, founder and CEO of C-Span, interviews Otis Chandler in 2001. 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. 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 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. 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. 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. We wouldnt be working here if it werent for him.. Until shortly before his death in 1973, Chandlers father had helped insulate him from those protests. 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.. 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. He gradually worked his way through every department at the paper: production, circulation, the mailroom, mechanical, advertising, the newsroom. I think he fears that he would die if he werent building something.. Because he had five children and heavy corporate responsibilities, his wife tried to dissuade him from this favored leisure time activity. Unbeknown to the reporters and editors who worked on that project and to the entire editorial staff of The Times the paper had agreed to share the profits from the issue with Staples Center as part of a complicated arrangement by which The Times became a founding partner of the arena. [1], "Oats" was Chandler's nickname within the family. 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. The Times, he would later say, was very much in his blood even then. "I was raised to hate the unions," Chandler said. More than 15,000 readers canceled their subscriptions, and Chandlers breach with some members of his family was widened still further. After leaving the Air Force in 1953, he had little direction for his career. He was convinced that he had taken The Times about as far as he could, and he wanted more challenges and more freedom. He was 70 then, mandatory retirement age for members of the board of directors. Emma Marian Otis 1866-1952. Typically, Chandler would offer gentle advice, Carroll said, but never try to dictate what the new management should do with the paper. By the time of graduation, he weighed 200 pounds. Newspapers are a mature, non-growth industry, vulnerable to cyclical economic downturns and increases in the cost of newsprint, he said. 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. The truth probably falls in the middle. 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. In Los Angeles, while working in the fruit fields, he started a small delivery company that . 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. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. 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. Like his father before him, he thought he should concentrate on companywide responsibilities, by succeeding Franklin D. Murphy as chairman of the Times Mirror board. 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. He put in long hours, but he managed to have dinner with his family most nights, even if it meant doing more work at home after dinner. 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. For a time, when he was young, Chandler rode a bicycle several miles to and from the Polytechnic School in Pasadena. 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. [1] Instead, he spent 1951 to 1953 in the Air Force's ground service, as a co-captain of the track team and supervisor of athletics and drama at Camp Stoneman in Pittsburg, California. [1][2], After graduation, Chandler tried to enroll in an Air Force training program, but was turned down because he was too large to fit in the cockpit of a jet. But he was never specific, and the word publisher was never mentioned.. His son was perfectly willing, indeed eager, to do and spend whatever was necessary to achieve journalistic respectability. He died in May 1972 at age 47. Lewy body disease is a brain disorder combining some of the most debilitating characteristics of Parkinsons and Alzheimers diseases. 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. During his tenure it would expand to 34 foreign and domestic bureaus. He remained an avid reader of the paper. He continued to ride motorcycles. I thought Otis was committed in the same way, she said. login . Chandler said there was no simple answer: The region was changing, the demographic was changing, the type of paper was changing, he said. But Otis had certainly been aware of the family pressure. 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. He entered a six-hour endurance race in Watkins Glen, N.Y., teamed with John Thomas, his motorcycle buddy and Porsche mechanic, who had long raced cars himself. But he was hardly unaware of his familys powerful position. Geni requires JavaScript! Records may include photos, original documents, family history, relatives, specific dates, locations and full names. 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. 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. His efforts led him directly into confrontation with a powerful force for the status quo: his own family. There was an air of anticipation as the elder Chandler stepped to the microphone and said, after a bit of reminiscing, I hereby appoint, effective as of this moment, Otis Chandler as publisher of The Times., He recalled almost four decades later having had no inkling what my dad was going to say until an hour before the luncheon. He was particularly resentful of Willes frequent promise to reinvent the newspaper and Willes and Downings unwillingness to consult him. His remarks were reported in publications from coast to coast. That article deeply wounded some of the 160-odd descendants of Otis grandfather, family patriarch Harry Chandler. I loved being a reporter. I said he was a great man who made this paper what it was, Boyarsky would say later. 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. For the first time in his life, he found his personal integrity seriously questioned. He was airlifted to a hospital. Otis Ashmore Chandler (1891 - 1956) 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. Although all three of his sons worked at the paper for varying periods, none ascended into the top executive ranks. But in 1972, he suffered his most damaging blow and it was, to a significant extent, self-inflicted. [1], Times editorial page editor Anthony Day observed that Chandler "had been raised to be a prince". The youngest son, Michael, also worked in the papers production departments, ultimately taking early retirement in a companywide buyout. 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. Column: 15 minutes of fame flies by. To put together his galaxy of star reporters, Otis Chandler employed what in much of the newspaper business amounts to a secret weapon money.. 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. That was far from the only example of Chandlers reversal of long-held dogma at The Times. Of all the political figures to benefit from The Times partisanship over the years, none had been more favored, or more successful, than Nixon. There were so many changes going on, and I think if we hadnt kept up with the flow, The Times wouldnt have continued to do well financially Im glad we did what we did.. Otis Chandler will go down as one of the most important figures in newspaper history, said Dean Baquet, editor of the Los Angeles Times. Find records of Otis Chandler Birth records Marriage records Divorce records . Doctors said his right arm, yanked from its socket by the impact, would be virtually useless for the rest of his life. 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). But results were slow in coming, and many top-level executives left. When I came, recalled Day, the former editorial page editor, I thought [Otis] was going to build a progressive newspaper dynasty like the Washington Post or the New York Times. The shift on the editorial page came as the region itself, once dependably Republican, was becoming less conservative. [1], His son, Mike Chandler, was a race-car driver in the CART Championship Car series. His Stanford roommate, Norman Nourse, suggested that he try the shotput throwing a 16-pound iron ball. Chandler told his wife he wanted a divorce while the two were on vacation in Montana in 1978. Goodwin J. Knight. He was rejected anyway; his shoulders and hips were still too big to fit into the cockpit of a jet. Many at The Times hoped that in the aftermath of that re-emergence, Chandler would use his moral authority to help reverse what he and they saw as the declining fortunes of the paper. Despite the liberalization of The Times editorial page under Chandler, he remained moderate, even conservative, on many issues, feminism among them. 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. 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. Brother of Camilla Chandler, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis_Chandler. But the Mirror continued to falter, and his parents decided they didnt want his first command to be that of a sinking ship. The agreement made sense financially for The Times, but it proved to be a boon in another way as well. [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. 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. It wasnt as much fun.. Thats more than I ever heard from Mark Willes.. Otis Family Trees, Crests, Genealogy, DNA, More add your favorite Website (s) to this page! [1], Chandler visited The Times frequently as a child, sliding down chutes that were used to drop papers to delivery trucks. 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. 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. 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