Manuscripts

Street, Suzanne

Description: 3 items: letter, 10/11/1962, to Norman Chandler from Suzanne Street ; memo, 10/25/1962, to Norman Chandler from Marvin Reimer of Los Angeles Times (Personnel? Legal?) ; letter, 11/2/1962, from Norman Chandler to Suzanne Street. All correspondence deals with a request for Times' financial help for Street, whose sister, Opal Street wrote a column for Los Angeles Times for a decade, circa 1920. Pfaffinger Foundation had already provided some aid but Norman Chandler and Reimer determined that nothing more would be forthcoming from Los Angeles Times.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1962
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)

Chandler, Norman

Manuscripts

Three items. Three memos from Otis Chandler to Norman Chandler and a memo from Otis Chandler to Norman Chandler, Mrs. Norman Chandler [Dorothy Chandler], Philip Chandler, L.D. Hotchkiss, Omar F. Johnson, Hugh A. Lewis, R. F. Mark, Edward J. Reap, Marvin Reimer, Fred Selzer, and Nick Williams. One of the memos has to do with Sam Yorty and includes a copy of a letter that Yorty sent to Norman Chandler.

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Lewis, Jerry

Manuscripts

1 item: letter, 2/16/1959, from Jerry Lewis to Norman Chandler thanking him for Los Angeles Times cooperation on the muscular dystrophy issue. Letter removed from Autograph File and returned to Norman Chandler papers.

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Times Mirror Company Executive Conference

Manuscripts

"A copy of a speech entitled "The Los Angeles Times and the Newspaper Industry" given by Otis Chandler at the Times Mirror Company Executive Conference on Wednesday, May 11, 1966. Other items in this folder include are a memo from Otis Chandler to Nick Williams regarding the conference; two list of attendees to the Annual Meeting and the Executive Conference, one is two pages, includes titles and has handwritten notes on the backside; an itinerary for the Executive Conference for May 11, 1966; a four page memo from Paul Bertness to Mrs. Norman Chandler regarding his comments on the Annual Meeting and the Executive Conference; an itinerary for both days of the conference; a newspaper clipping from the Wall Street Journal about the meeting; half a sheet of paper regarding the details about transportation to the meeting; and two page yellow pad pages with hand written notes, also attached to these pages is a piece of paper also with handwritten notes on it. "

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Chandler, Otis - Tapes # 13 - 14

Manuscripts

1 item. 60-pp. transcript of Marshall Berges' taped interview with Otis Chandler, 12/6/1979. Subjects include: avoiding the draft in 1945 ; starting at Los Angeles Times after World War II ; working in the composing room ; Olympic trials for shot put and discus ; U.S. Air Force ; Los Angeles Times apprenticeships - pressroom, composing room, carpenter shop, etc. ; Otis' family budget was limited by his low wages 1953 - 1958 ; working as a reporter for Los Angeles Times and The Mirror ; closing down of The Mirror (1962) ; working with Nick Williams ; (on working with his uncle, Philip Chandler) "a nice person...(but) he wasn't very bright" ; Norman Chandler's decision to tap Otis as publisher over Philip Chandler.

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Bowron, Fletcher

Manuscripts

3 items: a 1951 letter from Mayor Fletcher Bowron to Norman Chandler ; clipping from Los Angeles Times dated one week before previous letter ; 1957 letter from attorney James C. Sheppard to Norman Chandler.

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Correspondence

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items: 10-pp. "Civic Auditorium memorandum, 12/9/1957, from Ed Ainsworth to Mrs. Chandler, on "creation of an Auditorium - Music Center facility..."; telegram, 10/31/1958, from Marion Davies to Mr. & Mrs. Norman Chandler congratulating them for editorial on gubernatorial campaign; letter, 12/2/1958, from Dorothy Chandler to Davies, thanking her; series of 7 letters, 1962 - 1963, between Thomas M. Storke (1876 - 1971), Santa Barbara News-Press Publisher, and Dorothy Chandler, headed "Strictly private and confidential"; copy of letter, 6/18/1968, from John Anson Ford to Dr. [Franklin] Murphy on working with Dorothy Chandler and other members of the family; article copy, Among Ourselves, 7/1968, "Death takes Ed Ainsworth, Timesman for 43 years"; transcribed version of a handwritten, 2-pp. letter from Nick Williams to "Mrs. C" at the time of his retirement and after his wife's death, 1/25/1973; 1-pp. Times Mirror bio on Mrs. Chandler; related items, including private letters, cards and notes, many with revealing marginalia. 3 items: glossy reproduction of page from Los Angeles Sunday Times, 9/11/1921, photos & captions for "Shakespeare Revival - 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' " stapled to letter, 1/4/1960, to "Mrs. Norman Chandler," from Lenore Greenfield on the photostat (mentioned above) advertising the Hollywood Bowl production of Shakespeare's comedy; 3-pp. letter from "DBC" to "Miss Lawson," 2/27,1961, on the subject of "factors that restrict women's place in management." Times Mirror Management Bulletin, 1/14/1976, to "Management Personnel," opens "One February 1, 1976, Dorothy B. Chandler is retiring from Times Mirror..."

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