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"Otis and His Times," Richard Connelly Miller (1 of 2)
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"Otis and His Times," Richard Connelly Miller (2 of 2)
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Photocopy of 545-pp. manuscript, Otis and His Times: The career of Harrison Gray Otis of Los Angeles, by Richard Connelly Miller, submitted to the University of California, Graduate Division. Split into two folders.
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Connelly, Dolly
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Two items comprising of five pages pertaining to Dolly Connelly.
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Connelly, Olga
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Three items comprising of eleven pages pertaining to Olga Connelly.
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Chandler, Otis - Appointment as Times Publisher (1 of 2)
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Approx. 100 items: letters of congratulations to Norman Chandler on his retirement and the naming of Otis Chandler as Los Angeles Times publisher. Notable names among the writers - Walter Annenberg, Frank Capra, Warren Dorn, Donald W. Douglas, Sr., John Ferraro, J. Edgar Hoover, and more. (Split into two folders.) J. Edgar Hoover letter removed from Autograph File and returned to Norman Chandler papers.
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Otis Chandler (1 of 2)
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Approx. 50 items: correspondence and other materials related to LAT Publisher (& Chairman) Otis Chandler. Included are speech transcripts, news clips, analysis of what other sources have written about Otis Chandler. Complete text of Mr. Chandler's speech before the Arizona Newspapers Association, 1/21/1977. Also "Memories of Otis," essays written for an OC testimonial by Jack Smith and Jim Murray. Split into two folders.
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Chandler, Norman - Tape # 1
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2 items: 19-pp. typed and annotated transcript of "Tape # 1 - James Bassett/Norman Chandler, Transcribed 12/4/1972" and photocopy of the annotated transcript. Subjects include: Nick Williams becomes Editor (pp. 2) ; Norman Chandler's memories of Harrison Gray Otis (pp.4 - 6) ; Norman Chandler meets Dorothy Buffum at Stanford, they married in 1922, Norman Chandler did not graduate - "I wasn't enthusiastic about college" ; Dorothy Buffum Chandler comments that in the 1920s, Los Angeles Times did not mean as much to her and Norman Chandler as it did later, it was just a job (pp. 12) ; In the early 1940s, Norman Chandler began to be motivated to run the paper (Harry Chandler died in 1944, pp. 14) ; the recall of Mayor Frank Shaw, "he was a bad egg and we went overboard in supporting him...which I think was a mistake" (14 - 15) ; politics - Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan (pp. 16) ; Otis Chandler named publisher (pp. 17) ; Bassett asks Dorothy Buffum Chandler if, in the late 1950s, she felt Los Angeles Times needed to "shift more to the middle of the road? - she answered "Very much so."
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