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. The conservative movement that would lead to Barry Goldwaters presidential candidacy in 1964 and to Ronald Reagans subsequent rise was in its nascence. [2] At Stanford he was a successful shot putter. Otis said he wanted a more assertive, more liberal editorial page, Day said. 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. [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. 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. 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 was also so disenchanted with the management of Times Mirror by then that, to the dismay of many, he not only didnt fight or even criticize the sale but instead embraced it as a very positive move a perfect fit a win-win situation.. He surfed. During Chandlers 20 years as publisher and five subsequent years as editor in chief and chairman of the board of The Times then-parent company, Times Mirror the paper won nine Pulitzer Prizes and expanded from two to 34 foreign and domestic bureaus. Research genealogy for Otis Chandler of Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, as well as other members of the Chandler family, on Ancestry. He worked out daily, lifting weights in a gym he had built at The Times and improvising when he was traveling. 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. At the same time, he shifted the papers editorial page philosophy from the extreme right to slightly left of center. 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. 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.. 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. Chandler had long felt that Willes hadnt shown enough respect for him and what he had accomplished. Despite that, Chandler did not envision journalism as a career during his youth; instead, he often said he would like to become a doctor. Instead they always find new ways to spend money.. Wall Street responded favorably. 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. 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. [1], Chandler was raised on a 10-acre (40,000m2) citrus ranch in Sierra Madre owned by his parents. Periodically, Chandler rented the now-defunct Riverside Raceway for a day so he, Thomas and their friends could race their cars. 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. Sure, like any business executive, there were times when I would like to have been away from it all, free of responsibilities. Within four years, Time magazine and others were routinely mentioning The Times as one of the three or four best newspapers in the country. 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. 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. 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.. 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Times into a leading paper", "Otis Chandler, Publisher Who Transformed Los Angeles Times, Dies at 78", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Otis_Chandler&oldid=1112344101, Stanford Cardinal men's track and field athletes, Pages using infobox person with multiple spouses, Pages using infobox person with multiple parents, Articles with unsourced statements from March 2017, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 25 September 2022, at 21:57. Chandler himself invested more than $200,000 of his personal funds. 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. He was 78. When Burke was accused of fraud, Chandler too became a target of civil legal proceedings. For the first time in five years, I felt like I wasnt a leper. Chandler is survived by his wife; sons Harry of Los Angeles and Michael of Bend, Ore; daughters Cathleen Eckhardt of Soquel, Calif., and Carolyn Chandler of Santa Barbara; sister Camilla Chandler Frost of Los Angeles; and 15 grandchildren. [1], In 1966 Chandler received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College. By the time of graduation, he weighed 200 pounds. He was featured on the cover of sporting magazines like Road & Track, Strength and Health, and Safari Club. [1], Chandler enrolled at his parents' alma mater, Stanford University, in 1946. With Otis gone, the heat shield was gone, Johnson said. The agreement made sense financially for The Times, but it proved to be a boon in another way as well. The shift on the editorial page came as the region itself, once dependably Republican, was becoming less conservative. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Otis Chandler. After the series was published, Otis asked for an editorial criticizing the Birchers. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. Arthur O. Sulzberger, who was then publisher of the New York Times, said that although he initially shared his colleagues surprise and disappointment when Chandler left, I later realized that I shouldnt have been so surprised. 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. He also complained that the papers editor and publisher never try to come up with new ways to cut the deficit. 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. 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. Although Halberstam would later say, No single family dominates any other region of this country as the Chandlers have dominated California, Otis had a far-from-pampered upbringing and was never a man who could be described as effete. 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. 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. 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. After the guide missed his shot and fled, Chandler shot the elephant when it was only 10 yards away, preventing himself and his wife from being trampled. To grasp the breadth of the changes, it is necessary to understand what The Times had been. Critics also thought his position at the top of the citys power structure prevented The Times from aggressively investigating that establishment. He wanted the paper to take what he called more balls out positions, and he wanted us to change our position and editorialize against the war in Vietnam.. He told me, You created a great newspaper, Otis, and well make you proud,. Chandler said. Those included an increase in the amount of news the paper printed, the adoption of a new statement of principles and ethical guidelines, and the publication of an investigation into how and why the Staples deal had occurred. They asked me a lot of questions and made me feel welcome again, Chandler said a few days later. The decision stunned the staff and outside observers, many of whom expected him to serve much longer. 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.. In 1948 the Chandler family had started a second newspaper, an afternoon tabloid called the Los Angeles Mirror, and as part of his training program, Otis worked there too. . Going with newspapers only is a flawed strategy, a dangerous philosophy that puts The Times at risk. At the age of 8, Chandler was thrown to the ground during a horseback riding lesson. I never had him second-guess me, ever, said William F. Thomas, The Times editor from 1971 to 1989. 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]. 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.. They resented my position at the L.A. Times and felt there were a lot of things I could have done differently.. 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. Although the decision stunned her, friends said they had long seen the breakup coming. But in 1989, two months after Laventhol replaced Johnson as publisher, Day was removed. By 1962, Palmer was gone and the gubernatorial race between Brown and Richard Nixon was covered primarily by two new reporters: Richard Bergholz, who had come from the Mirror, and Carl Greenberg, from Hearsts Los Angeles Examiner. Norman Chandler 1899-1973. In October 1999, The Times published a special issue of its Sunday magazine devoted entirely to Staples Center, the sports arena and entertainment venue then about to open in downtown Los Angeles. 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.. . Since mandatory retirement age for the publisher was then 65, that conveniently eliminated the 52-year-old Philip. He died in 2002. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Such special issues were financial windfalls for the Times, generating a record $2 million in ad revenue. 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. About the same time, McKinsey & Co., a management consulting firm, was conducting another of its periodic studies for The Times, and it too recommended dividing the responsibilities of publisher and chairman. Despite the liberalization of The Times editorial page under Chandler, he remained moderate, even conservative, on many issues, feminism among them. In 1986, Chandler surrendered the titles of chairman and editor in chief, although he remained on the board and took on the largely ceremonial role of chairman of the companys executive committee. For the first time in his life, he found his personal integrity seriously questioned. He missed the day-to-day challenge and the interaction with the editors and with the news. After graduating from Stanford, he tried to enroll in an Air Force training program. Even Chandler said some of those long stories made the paper seem gray, somewhat dull at times. He was particularly resentful of Willes frequent promise to reinvent the newspaper and Willes and Downings unwillingness to consult him. It was a watershed experience, he said. As a student he competed in basketball, soccer, the high jump, running and weightlifting. Nixon, by all accounts, was stunned by the turnabout. Otis Chandler was born on July 4, 1919. They owned vast landholdings and used their influence with elected officials and the business elite to shape the regions development. When Chandler took the job, the paper had only two outside offices. 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. The New York Times even published an editorial under the headline The Truth According to Otis Chandler.. Not once did the article refer to Brown by name. He hunted. They saw the sinister hand of communism behind such government initiatives as fluoridation of the water supply and integration of the schools. I thought Otis was committed in the same way, she said. Until shortly before his death in 1973, Chandlers father had helped insulate him from those protests. His mother rushed him to a second hospital, where a doctor she knew revived him with an adrenaline shot to the heart. More than merely a newspaper with a conservative editorial policy, it was an openly partisan mouthpiece for the conservative wing of the Republican Party. At 6-foot 3-inches (190cm) tall, after bulking-up to and 220 pounds he won the Pacific Coast Conference title and finished second in the nation during his senior year with a toss of 57 feet (17m), 63/47 of an inch while serving as his team's captain. There is something about him that suggests if Otis Chandler hadnt existed, Ernest Hemingway would have created him, the Christian Science Monitor said in 1980. Son of Norman Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler Norman Chandler, then near his 60th birthday, saw the logic in the change. We wouldnt be working here if it werent for him.. Because he had five children and heavy corporate responsibilities, his wife tried to dissuade him from this favored leisure time activity. My trips gave me a balance, a perspective, he said. He was the fourth and final member of the Chandler family to hold the paper's top position. Chandler made improvement of the paper's quality a top priority, succeeding in raising the product's reputation, as well as its profit margins. It was clear to me that it meant a lot to him and that he didnt want to feel shut out.. 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. By the time he left the publishers office, it had increased tenfold during his tenure. I apologized to my wife and my children and my mother and father and everyone on the board and all my department heads.. He was, in general, something of a loner, a trait he traced partly to spending my young years on that ranch in Sierra Madre, a little remote, rather than on a neighborhood street with a lot of kids. Asked repeatedly in one interview to name his best childhood friends, he came up blank. Sure enough, both Thomas and Johnson said that after Chandler left, they were pressured by the sixth floor, where Times Mirror corporate offices were, to fire Day, whom Erburu and many in the family and on the board regarded as too liberal. Otis enthusiastically supported Michael's racing career until a near-fatal crash while qualifying at Indianapolis in 1984. 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. 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. Otis Chandler will go down as one of the most important figures in newspaper history, said Dean Baquet, editor of the Los Angeles Times. He thought they had committed transgressions that jeopardized the reputation and credibility he had worked so diligently to establish. Willes, he said in 1999, was basically undoing what I and my father and Franklin Murphy all did, dating back to 1958. The statement was a stinging and unprecedented rebuke of Willes and Downing. 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 won many distinguished awards in his years at The Times: honorary degrees and plaques and certificates from various universities and other prestigious institutions, including a lifetime achievement award from the Annenberg School for Communication at USC a few months before the sale of Times Mirror. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. The two married in 1922, and had two children, Camilla and Otis, both born in 1927. 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. 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. In October 1957, continuing his climb into the executive ranks, Chandler was named special assistant to his father. Among them: the mate of the musk ox that nearly killed him in 1990. [1], His son, Mike Chandler, was a race-car driver in the CART Championship Car series. Chandler always denied any conflict of interest, and he invariably emerged from these controversies with his reputation for personal integrity intact. 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. The stock price tripled during his first three years at the company, and circulation grew modestly. 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. My style was to do the job and push the boundaries, and once Otis realized I knew what I was doing, he let me do it, Thomas said. He quickly increased the budget of the paper, allowing it to expand its coverage. 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. In Los Angeles, while working in the fruit fields, he started a small delivery company that . It was a sign that you now have a boss who believes in good, tough journalism, who wants to produce the best paper in the country and wholl support you in your efforts and make it possible to achieve that, he said. 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. 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?.. 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.. Its not their kind of newspaper, he said. Mrs. Chandler later achieved fame on her own by raising almost $20 million to finance the creation of the Music Center, a step that went a long way toward erasing the hick town image that Otis had long resented, and she was always keenly interested in the papers coverage of culture and society. 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. In the next three years, The Times changed as perhaps no other American newspaper has ever done in such a short time. Despite the enormous difference in their socioeconomic status, the two remained close friends for more than 30 years. When Chandler left the publishers office and again when he left the chairmans job, his former colleagues worried that without him, they would no longer be immune to corporate and outside pressures. 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. But he was never specific, and the word publisher was never mentioned.. The GeoTek affair also damaged Chandler physically. The truth probably falls in the middle. Otis and Williams perhaps the ablest newspaper editor of his generation, in Halberstams words became a formidable team. Landsberg did additional reporting and rewriting of the text. Southern California was considered a cultural backwater, and despite his familys vast wealth and power, Chandler felt like a hick. [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. He died in May 1972 at age 47. It wasnt as much fun.. On the fringes of that movement and especially active in Southern California was an ultra-right-wing organization known as the John Birch Society. [1], "Oats" was Chandler's nickname within the family. 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. 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