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Otis Chandler, the family's last great newspaperman, is sitting across the table from me inside his Vintage Museum of Transportation and Wildlife in Oxnard. It's an astonishing mélange of antique automobiles and motorcycles, jumbled together with huge stuffed trophy kills from Chandler's peripatetic hunting expeditions.
Jul 21, 2012 · Goodreads CEO & founder Otis Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler Editor & Chief run a social reading site that offers book reviews and a place to discover new books to read, based in part by what your ...
Mar 7, 2006 · Otis Chandler had always compared himself to the eagle that is The Times’ symbol, saying that he wanted to soar. Harry said he watched the birds “rising up, gliding around and around, higher ...
Otis Chandler - California Press Foundation
Feb 27, 2006 · Otis Chandler, who transformed his family's Los Angeles Times from a provincial, conservative paper into a respected national media voice, died Monday. He was 78.
1927 – 2006. Otis Chandler was an athlete, a weightlifter, race-car driver, big-game hunter, surfer, antique automobile collector and cyclist; and not the least of those accomplishments was his 20-year tenure as publisher of the Los Angeles Times. From 1960 to 1980 he helped to reshape and improve the paper so quickly, on a scale so grand ...
Title supplied by cataloger.Otis Chandler (1927-2006) was the only son of Norman Chandler, publisher of The Times, and Dorothy Buffum Chandler, patron of the arts and a passionate fund-raiser who helped transform Los Angeles into a major cultural center. Despite his family's wealth his parents did not spoil him with gifts, but instead insisted he work in the 10-acre citrus ranch they owned in ...
