At the time of her death in 1997, she had eight grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. 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. Chandlers wife, Bettina, was with him. (1924 - 1972) Jump to: Bio graphy Family Photos Comments Obit uary. Doctors said his right arm, yanked from its socket by the impact, would be virtually useless for the rest of his life. The GeoTek affair also damaged Chandler physically. 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 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. Some critics felt that his zeal for national recognition led The Times to underemphasize local news, particularly about minority communities. Toward that end, he initiated a more aggressive marketing program, expanded the papers geographic reach and started the Orange County edition to serve the burgeoning population there the first such satellite plant for any metropolitan daily in the country. 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. Collection Title: Chandler Family History Collection Digitized by California Audiovisual Preservation Project. Nevertheless, the increasingly liberal stand on most major issues angered many in the Chandler family. Nothing but my kids is more important to me than the Los Angeles Times, he said in 1999. Chandler said the move would help allay the concerns of readers who, mindful of the papers partisan history, find it hard to believe that this newspapers editorial page endorsements really dont affect the news columns.. 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. 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. But he said he wished people realized that if hed been left totally on his own, he might have done something different, so why did they question it when he finally decided he would do something different., Although Chandler often likened himself to the eagle that serves as the symbol of The Times I like to soar, to get above the minutiae and the crowds he insisted that as long as he was publisher, I was living the life I wanted to live. Unlike his father, however, he had not insisted that his children follow him into leadership positions at The Times. Despite the liberalization of The Times editorial page under Chandler, he remained moderate, even conservative, on many issues, feminism among them. He wrote a statement, dictated it to Bill Boyarsky, then city editor, and asked that it be read aloud to the newsroom staff. 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. Watkins Glen was to be one of the most enjoyable experiences of Chandlers life. His son was perfectly willing, indeed eager, to do and spend whatever was necessary to achieve journalistic respectability. Otis enthusiastically supported Michael's racing career until a near-fatal crash while qualifying at Indianapolis in 1984. His first year, he increased it 45%. Not only did it champion GOP candidates, its editors helped select them. 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By his strength and by his judgment of good journalists, he was of unique importance in the history of the Los Angeles Times.. He said he didnt regret the 40 years he spent here. In a cover story on Chandler in 1967, Newsweek said, In the six years since his father made him publisher of The Times, Chandler has staged one of the most remarkable palace revolutions in U.S. journalism. [2] At Stanford he was a successful shot putter. Having been rebuffed by Willes in a spring 1999 inquiry about buying Times Mirror, Tribune executives went around him several months later and dealt directly with Chandler family members and their representatives. 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. Most historians credit Otis mother Buff to her friends and family with persuading her husband to make their son his successor. 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. I thought Otis was committed in the same way, she said. Emma Marian Otis 1866-1952. 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. The New York Times even published an editorial under the headline The Truth According to Otis Chandler.. login . Big, blond and broad-shouldered, Chandler looked more like a Muscle Beach habitue-turned-movie star than a corporate entrepreneur on a journalistic mission. I like living on the edge, he said in a 1999 interview, five months after his 71st birthday and two weeks after he suffered minor head injuries when he spun out in one of his Ferraris near the vintage-car and wildlife museum he owned in Oxnard. 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. [1] Later, Chandler said his motivation to invest in The Times' quality could be attributed, at least in part, to his desire to combat the East Coast opinion that, "The Times was regarded as a bad newspaper from a hick town". Critics also thought his position at the top of the citys power structure prevented The Times from aggressively investigating that establishment. 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.. Williams was 21 years older than Chandler and often pulled in his reins. For the first time in five years, I felt like I wasnt a leper. 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.. 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. Although Chandler had been opposed to Sen. Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential race, he had deferred to his father and reluctantly agreed to run an editorial before the Republican convention pledging The Times traditional support to whomever the party chose as its nominee and that turned out to be Goldwater. The Times, on his watch, consistently editorialized in favor of gun control, but Chandler himself was a strong advocate of the right to bear arms. The youngest son, Michael, also worked in the papers production departments, ultimately taking early retirement in a companywide buyout. Chandler acknowledged that it was a difficult time for newspapers, but he disagreed vigorously with Willes approach. A year later, he moved again. It was a watershed experience, he said. Otis . 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. 'It was three outside members of the [Times Mirror] board who persuaded him to do it [1], Times editorial page editor Anthony Day observed that Chandler "had been raised to be a prince". [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. In the midst of a horseback riding lesson, he was thrown hard to the ground. 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. That was far from the only example of Chandlers reversal of long-held dogma at The Times. 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.. Chandler continued to meet regularly with Puerner and John Carroll, who became editor of The Times shortly after the Tribune purchased the paper and remained in that position until last summer. In 1960, he became publisher of the Los Angeles Times. 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. 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. Going with newspapers only is a flawed strategy, a dangerous philosophy that puts The Times at risk. Instead they always find new ways to spend money.. 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