I was more upset with myself than with Jack Burke, he said years later. His efforts led him directly into confrontation with a powerful force for the status quo: his own family. The explosion was blamed on union militants, and, Otis once said, I was raised to hate the unions. (He later mellowed on that topic, although he always opposed unionization at The Times.). The New York Times even published an editorial under the headline The Truth According to Otis Chandler.. Research genealogy for Otis Chandler of Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, as well as other members of the Chandler family, on Ancestry. [1] Big, blond and broad-shouldered, Chandler looked more like a Muscle Beach habitue-turned-movie star than a corporate entrepreneur on a journalistic mission. During his tenure it would expand to 34 foreign and domestic bureaus. If you will, its too complicated.. They didnt like the L.A. Times, he said in the 2005 interview. Otis, meanwhile, still had no idea what his mother and father had in mind for him. He died in May 1972 at age 47. The truth probably falls in the middle. When, by late September, it appeared that Brown might win as he ultimately did Times political editor Kyle Palmer, the papers lead reporter on the campaign, wrote a column acknowledging that the situation sounds a trifle grim for us Republicans.. They asked me a lot of questions and made me feel welcome again, Chandler said a few days later. Would I have wanted to stay, given what was happening at The Times and Times Mirror? Chandler asked a year after stepping down. Readers could be excused for thinking that only one political party existed in Southern California. Even Chandler said some of those long stories made the paper seem gray, somewhat dull at times. That was far from the only example of Chandlers reversal of long-held dogma at The Times. 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. Everyone wondered why, at so young an age, he would step away from something that he had had such an enormous impact in building, Louis D. Boccardi, former president and chief executive officer of Associated Press, said more than a decade later. 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 told me several times, and other people, that no Chandler would again be publisher of The Times, he added, and I thought that was a curious thing to say, especially since some of the Chandler children seemed perfectly suited to be publisher, at least as suited as Otis.. 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. The decision stunned the staff and outside observers, many of whom expected him to serve much longer. 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. 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. But when Williams, the editor, suggested that the paper look into the organization anyway, both Otis and Norman Chandler gave him the go-ahead. 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. Thats more than I ever heard from Mark Willes.. 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. Ultimately, he was able to do everything right-handed, he said, except serve hard in tennis.. Even when he was publisher, Chandler wasnt one of those workaholic bosses who could never let go. Chandler had long felt that Willes hadnt shown enough respect for him and what he had accomplished. 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. Staffing in Washington and Sacramento was expanded. Otis is someone whos very used to having his own way, and she impeded that.. Others argued that the negative attention that was focused on the paper, Willes and the rest of the Chandler family in the aftermath of Otis statement helped accelerate and crystallize the familys desire to sell The Times. He eventually recovered from serious head injuries. Goodwin J. Knight. By the time of graduation, he weighed 200 pounds. He told me, You created a great newspaper, Otis, and well make you proud,. Chandler said. 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. It is Marilyn Brant. Williams wrote a new one, warning that the Birchers extremism and smear tactics were subversive acts that could sow distrust and weaken the very strong case for conservatism. Chandler signed it and published it on Page 1. The Games took place in 1952. [1], Chandler was an enthusiastic athlete and thrill seeker, an image he actively cultivated. And in January 1964, they hired a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist away from the Denver Post. He once said that she had received and sought more recognition than she deserved for many changes at the paper, including his own rise, and that his father had long been underestimated. Chandler who learned to hunt when he was 10, shooting ducks with his father began big-game hunting a year after he became publisher, and for most of the rest of his life, he tried to go on at least one major hunting trip a year, in Botswana, Mongolia, Afghanistan and Ethiopia, among other places. When The Times consistently provided editorial support for various downtown redevelopment projects, civic activists were quick to say the projects would enhance the value of the Chandler familys real estate interests there. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. Husband of Bettina Chandler Six weeks later, on the day that John Puerner of Tribune Co. took over as publisher of The Times, Chandler had dinner with Puerner and Jack Fuller, then-president of Tribune Publishing at their invitation. In 1960, he became publisher of the Los Angeles Times. Chandler was elated; many who knew him well and saw him after that race said they had rarely seen him happier. 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. I thought Otis was committed in the same way, she said. Despite the liberalization of The Times editorial page under Chandler, he remained moderate, even conservative, on many issues, feminism among them. [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. [1], His son, Mike Chandler, was a race-car driver in the CART Championship Car series. 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I wasnt satisfied Im that way whether Im out riding my bike or racing a car.. 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. 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. 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. That article deeply wounded some of the 160-odd descendants of Otis grandfather, family patriarch Harry Chandler. Wall Street responded favorably. 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. In 1995, after moving to another ranch in Oregon, he announced that hed found paradise. Chandlers primary role was to provide the impetus, framework and financial support for change, rather than dictating specifics. Were going to spend as much money as it takes to be the best newspaper in the country and I mean, specifically, [better than] the New York Times, Chandler said in remarks to the papers Washington Bureau in the mid-1960s. ADVERTISEMENT BY ANCESTRY.COM. Since mandatory retirement age for the publisher was then 65, that conveniently eliminated the 52-year-old Philip. You transformed the entire staff, he said, and the whole place had a totally different attitude.. [1] [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. But Thomas said it really didnt take much persuasion, because he really did want to go., Chandler himself said: I think some of the family members and some of the corporate people were hoping I would step aside although I dont recall that there was strong pressure.. He lifted weights three times a week in his home gym. In 1999 almost 20 years after he left the publishers office and with no official ties to the paper anymore its standing in the national journalistic firmament was still so important to him that he emerged from a largely self-imposed exile and issued a strong denunciation of top Times and Times Mirror executives. Once he started as a reporter, though, he began to feel different about a career at The Times. 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 always had the feeling that I wasnt welcome in the building when Mark was in charge that maybe theyd have a guard try to throw me out if I tried to come in. Lewy body disease is a brain disorder combining some of the most debilitating characteristics of Parkinsons and Alzheimers diseases. When Burke asked Chandler if hed like to invest in his company and introduce Burke to other potential investors among the publishers wealthy friends Chandler was happy to comply. 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. Prep Rally is devoted to the SoCal high school sports experience, bringing you scores, stories and a behind-the-scenes look at what makes prep sports so popular. Its too big, its too stuffy. MyHeritage Family Trees; FamilySearch Family Tree; WikiTree; Geni World Family Tree; California Deaths, 1940 - 1997; U.S. Social Security Death Index (SSDI) U.S . Nearly a decade after his divorce, he installed the best of his animals in dioramas amid the classic cars and motorcycles in his Oxnard museum. In 1977, Chandler brought Tom Johnson, publisher of the Dallas Times-Herald and a former aide to President Johnson (no relation), to Los Angeles as president of The Times and heir apparent for publisher. The collection also included dozens of vintage motorcycles, some of which were loaned to the Guggenheim Museum for its Art of the Motorcycle exhibit, which opened in 1998. More than 15,000 readers canceled their subscriptions, and Chandlers breach with some members of his family was widened still further. But he was hardly unaware of his familys powerful position. 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. Their son Harry concurred, although he also agreed with his mother that most of the familys leisure activities revolved around what Dad wanted to do camping, water skiing, cliff-jumping, surfing. Philip Chandler resigned from the Times Mirror board seven months later. They wanted to impeach Earl Warren, chief justice of the United States. 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. Norman Chandler, then near his 60th birthday, saw the logic in the change. 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.. For a time, when he was young, Chandler rode a bicycle several miles to and from the Polytechnic School in Pasadena. Chandler was raised to share his family's distaste for labor unions, a tradition that favored the family's financial interests. Brian Lamb, right, founder and CEO of C-Span, interviews Otis Chandler in 2001. Instead they always find new ways to spend money.. 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. Otis Chandler will go down as one of the most important figures in newspaper history, said Dean Baquet, editor of the Los Angeles Times. 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 Married Harry Chandler . Chandler welcomed Tribune in part because he admired its management and strategy and in part because he thought its diverse holdings four newspapers, 22 television stations and an aggressive Internet presence would help stabilize The Times financial position in the new century. 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.. At the same time, he shifted the papers editorial page philosophy from the extreme right to slightly left of center. Like his father, who had also been kept on tight purse strings by his father, Otis often split the bill with his fiancee or let her pick up the tab when they dated. The Chandlers had no rival as the most powerful family in Southern California. The stock price tripled during his first three years at the company, and circulation grew modestly. To put together his galaxy of star reporters, Otis Chandler employed what in much of the newspaper business amounts to a secret weapon money.. As a weightlifter, Chandler finished third in the nation competing in the heavyweight division. 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. He also began to develop a love of speed and once had to do a stint in traffic school after getting a speeding ticket on his bicycle, he said. Since his first run for Congress in 1946, he had been championed by The Times as he successfully ran for U.S. Senate and then for the vice presidency on the Eisenhower ticket. Williams was 21 years older than Chandler and often pulled in his reins. But the series also served notice that The Times was in the process of becoming a different and much better newspaper. Missy and I had had a good marriage, but we just werent getting along anymore in the last 10 years. 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. 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. This coincided with the shift of the paper's editorial stance from overtly conservative to independent. Or did it, in some way, lead the region into change? 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. When he started buying vintage cars again several years later, he purchased another 1931 Duesenberg, this time for $1.2 million, en route to building another world-class collection. Their first child was a boy named Norman after Chandler's father. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. 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. [1], In 1966 Chandler received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College. I was strictly a tall, skinny blond kid from California.. 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. One of the first examples came in 1961, when The Times hired Jim Murray as a sports columnist. 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 was 78. Norman Chandler 1899-1973. Chandler was honored with a Lifetime of Achievement award. After graduating from Stanford, he tried to enroll in an Air Force training program. He also showed his father skills that went beyond the reportorial. 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. Also, the name of Otis Chandlers first wife was incorrectly given as Marilyn Brandt. Murray had helped create Sports Illustrated and was one of its stars. Expressions of condolence or remembrance can be sent to the Chandler family at chan@mfire.com. By the time he left the publishers office, it had increased tenfold during his tenure. He said to me many times that he hadnt wanted to come to the paper in the first place, but he felt an obligation to his family to do it, said Robert F. Erburu, who succeeded Chandler as Times Mirror chairman. He wrote a statement, dictated it to Bill Boyarsky, then city editor, and asked that it be read aloud to the newsroom staff. The outdoors is my second home, my chapel, my retreat, my great love in life.. Chandler had his own ways of blowing off such stress like getting behind the wheel of a turbocharged Porsche. Perelman once wrote that while traveling through the western United States by train, he asked a porter to bring him a newspaper and unfortunately, the poor man, hard of hearing, brought me the Los Angeles Times.. Sulzberger recalled decades later that he once walked into Chandlers office and found him hanging upside down in the doorway, like a bat. 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. 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. Research genealogy for Otis Chandler of Mingo, West Virginia, as well as other members of the Chandler family, on Ancestry. In college, he had sometimes worked summers at the paper, most often using his physical strength to move printing plates and other heavy items and equipment. Newspapers are a mature, non-growth industry, vulnerable to cyclical economic downturns and increases in the cost of newsprint, he said. [citation needed]. As it happened, the consultants also recommended that, to ensure stability, the new publisher be capable of holding the job at least 15 years. 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. Both refused. He had the papers support when he ran unsuccessfully for president in 1960. Heres a man who led a full life, said Otis Booth, his cousin and longtime hunting companion. When he went home after his time in the Air Force, though, he didnt envision journalism as his lifes work. 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. 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