Its not their kind of newspaper, he said. 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. Records may include photos, original documents, family history, relatives, specific dates, locations and full names. 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. Its true that in 1958 Norman Chandler had promoted Williams, a 27-year Times veteran, to the top editors job and had given him instructions to initiate a more aggressive and evenhanded approach to the news. 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. 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. 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. The youngest son, Michael, also worked in the papers production departments, ultimately taking early retirement in a companywide buyout. I loved being a reporter. Grandson of Harrison Gray Otis. While in college, he sometimes worked summers at the paper, most often moving printing plates and other heavy equipment. Regardless, Chandler welcomed the outcome, largely because of his dissatisfaction with the existing management of Times-Mirror. Chandler had long felt that Willes hadnt shown enough respect for him and what he had accomplished. He expected the very best of himself and of those around him.. Until shortly before his death in 1973, Chandlers father had helped insulate him from those protests. 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. . 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.. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. The Times, he would later say, was very much in his blood even then. [1], In 1998, at age 71, Chandler suffered minor head injuries when he spun out a Ferrari automobile on the road in Oxnard. Under Otis Chandler, The Times became a critically lauded newspaper. The GeoTek affair also damaged Chandler physically. Surprising though it may have been, that behavior the initial reluctance to question his successors; the cheerful acquiescence to the sale was very much in keeping with a lifelong pattern. 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. As recently as September, Chandler appeared fit, aside from a knee injury, and was lucid enough to sit for an interview and give a visitor a guided tour of his classic car and motorcycle museum in Oxnard. 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 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 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. Chandlers words hit like a bombshell, both in the Times newsroom and in the newspaper business nationwide. Respect and credibility for a newspaper is irreplaceable.. 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.. The Chandlers had no rival as the most powerful family in Southern California. During Willes brief tenure as publisher he relinquished the job to Kathryn Downing in 1999 so he could concentrate his energies on Times Mirror he did initiate a number of controversial strategies designed to increase Times circulation and advertising revenue. 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.. Not once did the article refer to Brown by name. John Thomas remembers meeting Chandler and not knowing who he was when Chandler took one of his Porsches to the auto dealership where Thomas worked as the parts manager in the late 1960s. Ruth Chandler 1897-1987. His mother rushed him to a second hospital, where a doctor she knew revived him with an adrenaline shot to the heart. Instead they always find new ways to spend money.. Word that Chandler was breaking his silence ricocheted through the newsroom. Born in Los Angeles on Nov. 23, 1927, Chandler was the only son of Norman Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler. Willes, he said in 1999, was basically undoing what I and my father and Franklin Murphy all did, dating back to 1958. Norman Chandler 1899-1973. Chandler had had earlier problems with his health, suffering from prostate cancer in 1989 and a 1998 heart attack. He told me, You created a great newspaper, Otis, and well make you proud,. Chandler said. Otis enthusiastically supported Michael's racing career until a near-fatal crash while qualifying at Indianapolis in 1984. 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. His two predecessors as chairman his father and Murphy had been invited to remain on the board, in a non-voting capacity, after their 70th birthdays, but Chandler was not extended a similar invitation, and he was clearly hurt by that. Not only did it not, as a rule, endorse Democrats for elective office; it didnt cover their campaigns. Chandler and his editor, Williams, lured reporters away from the Wall Street Journal, the New York Daily News, the Washington Star, BusinessWeek and U.S. News & World Report. FOR THE RECORD:In an earlier version of this article, the date of the Helsinki Olympic Games was incorrectly given as 1948. Missy and I had had a good marriage, but we just werent getting along anymore in the last 10 years. 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. 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. In 1995, at age 68, he crashed his motorcycle into a tractor while in New Zealand. 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. 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 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. 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. He saw them both as restraints on his freedom. Chandler insisted that he wasnt giving up the journalistic chase or losing his competitive edge, simply assuming a larger corporate responsibility. 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. 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. On it, neatly typed, was a seven-year executive training program, scheduled to begin that Sunday night. According to official documents, he wrote and telephoned a number of such people, including Evelle Younger, the former state attorney general and Los Angeles County district attorney. 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. The corporate air was a little too rarified for him, said Swayze, his secretary. "I was raised to hate the unions," Chandler said. He was the fourth and final member of the Chandler family to hold the paper's top position. The Hearst paper was subsequently hit by a devastating strike and ceased publication in 1989. He was the fourth and final member of the Chandler family to hold the paper's top position. I must confess, he said, I am getting darn tired of defending myself as a hunting person.. Chandler was no typical rookie. During his tenure it would expand to 34 foreign and domestic bureaus. But Otis had certainly been aware of the family pressure. Otis Ashmore Chandler (1891 - 1956) For all his seeming calm and control throughout his life, he had suffered from sporadic bouts of insomnia and intestinal pain diagnosed as a spastic colon ever since he became publisher. Chandler later insisted that he hadnt meant to demean blacks and Latinos, but the remark haunted him and the paper for many years. This was a flagrant violation of the independence of the editorial department, and it placed the credibility of the paper in jeopardy. . They owned vast landholdings and used their influence with elected officials and the business elite to shape the regions development. By the time he enrolled at Stanford University in 1946, he weighed about 200 pounds. 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]. Chandler changed The Times so dramatically and became so identified with the paper that when he left the publishers office at age 52, and again when he relinquished his corporate titles five years later, employees at The Times and Chandlers peers throughout the industry were both stunned and puzzled. Otis and Williams perhaps the ablest newspaper editor of his generation, in Halberstams words became a formidable team. He built a newspaper that was as great as the city it covers. Overnight, copies of an old photo of Chandler were pinned and taped by the dozens to pillars and walls and bulletin boards throughout the newsroom, where some still remain. Contact Information The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, CA 91108, Phone: (626) 405-2191; Email: reference@huntington.org, www.huntington.org Access-restricted-item true Addeddate [1], Chandler first attended the Polytechnic School in Pasadena, often making his commute by bicycle. He had the papers support when he ran unsuccessfully for president in 1960. He wrote a statement, dictated it to Bill Boyarsky, then city editor, and asked that it be read aloud to the newsroom staff. 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. Norman, the eldest, went through an executive training program and rose to be composing superintendent a position overseeing much of the physical production of the paper before leaving in 1989, when he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. 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 attended Stanford, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Sigma Rho chapter). Some critics felt that his zeal for national recognition led The Times to underemphasize local news, particularly about minority communities. He hunted. That was far from the only example of Chandlers reversal of long-held dogma at The Times. Under Chandlers direction, The Times scrambled to hire the best of the reporters and editors from the two defunct papers and to get rid of its own deadwood. Once he started as a reporter, though, he began to feel different about a career at The Times. 1 child. Within four years, Time magazine and others were routinely mentioning The Times as one of the three or four best newspapers in the country. Chandlers grandfather and father followed Gen. Otis in the publishers chair. Geni requires JavaScript! 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. For most of the first 80 years of its existence, the paper was such a journalistic laughingstock that humorist S.J. Even Chandler said some of those long stories made the paper seem gray, somewhat dull at times. But by 1962, The Times had become a different institution. When Burke was accused of fraud, Chandler too became a target of civil legal proceedings. The agreement made sense financially for The Times, but it proved to be a boon in another way as well. Chandlers primary role was to provide the impetus, framework and financial support for change, rather than dictating specifics. Going with newspapers only is a flawed strategy, a dangerous philosophy that puts The Times at risk. I was more upset with myself than with Jack Burke, he said years later. 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. Murphy was scheduled to retire soon, and Otis was determined to give up the publishers job in 1980, when he would have been publisher for 20 years four years longer than my father, he often pointed out to those disappointed by his departure. Son of Norman Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler You transformed the entire staff, he said, and the whole place had a totally different attitude.. Within a few years, The Times had a 2-1 lead over the Herald Examiner in advertising revenue, which provides about 80% of the income for most newspapers. Despite his family's wealth, Chandler's father insisted that he perform field labor and did not spoil him with gifts. 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. 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. 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. The Birchers argued that presidents Eisenhower, Truman and Franklin Roosevelt were either Communists or Communist dupes. Otis Chandler will go down as one of the most important figures in newspaper history, said Dean Baquet, editor of the Los Angeles Times. Nobody had ever heard of the Chandlers, he said later. Some close to the family and the paper suggest that it might have been Mrs. Chandler who asked the board members to pressure her husband to step aside as publisher so he could devote his full attention to his chairmanship of the parent Times Mirror company, which was about to embark on a major diversification program. By the time he left the publishers office, it had increased tenfold during his tenure. 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. Other key members of the Chandler family wanted Philip to succeed Norman, wrote Marshall Berges in his 1984 book, The Life and Times of Los Angeles. But Norman regarded Philip as something of a lightweight, not entirely competent to take an aggressive leadership role at The Times.. When he went home after his time in the Air Force, though, he didnt envision journalism as his lifes work. He worked out daily, lifting weights in a gym he had built at The Times and improvising when he was traveling. Big, blond and broad-shouldered, Chandler looked more like a Muscle Beach habitue-turned-movie star than a corporate entrepreneur on a journalistic mission. Like his father, he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Sigma Rho chapter). 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. [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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Their first child was a boy named Norman after Chandler's father. And it became clear over the years that he did not have any such intention. His first year, he increased it 45%. 'It was three outside members of the [Times Mirror] board who persuaded him to do it 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. 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. Not only did it champion GOP candidates, its editors helped select them. 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. (1924 - 1972) Jump to: Bio graphy Family Photos Comments Obit uary. 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. He was skinny all right 6 feet 1, 155 pounds but he played varsity soccer and basketball, high-jumped and ran the mile, and his successes gave him an identity. [2] At Stanford he was a successful shot putter. As much as Chandler remained interested in The Times, he immensely enjoyed his retirement years. 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. 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. 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. 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. Landsberg did additional reporting and rewriting of the text. Chandler retired as publisher in 1980 at the age of 52 to become chairman of Times Mirror, reducing his involvement in the day-to-day operations of the company. To grasp the breadth of the changes, it is necessary to understand what The Times had been. I dont know but I didnt have that choice.. But he was never specific, and the word publisher was never mentioned.. 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. 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.. 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. A year later, he moved again. I started work right away, on the graveyard shift, midnight to 8 in the morning. He was a pressroom apprentice, at $48 a week, the equivalent of $356 in todays dollars. 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. 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