Manuscripts

Progress Reports to Otis Chandler

Description: 3 items: 4-pp. report, 5/15/1973, "Progress on Times history project ," gives details of who had been interviewed to that point, what materials had been gathered, planning, etc. ; 5-pp. report, 6/11/1974, "Progress of The Project," gives new (longer) estimate of four years to complete the book, lists the types of material being used - clips, books, magazine articles, letters, annual reports, Among Ourselves (in-house newsletter), speeches, etc. ; 23-pp. manuscript, n.d., titled "HGO, HC and the San Fernando Valley - Owens Aqueduct Dispute, 1900 - 1913."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1973 - 1974
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Chandler, Otis

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items - memos, letters, speech transcripts. Notable names and items: material related to Otis Chandler profile on Cable News Network, 5/1985 ; material related to OC as guest on Michael Jackson radio show, 2/1981 ; Los Angeles Rotary (#5 Chapter) ; "Confidential" memo, 1/28/1972, Stickell to OC, with suggestions about how to woo the owners of another paper that may be going up for sale ; 10-pp. packet, under cover note with large, handwritten word "GULP," contains transcripts of remarks, 4/28/1977, at "The Morton Newspaper Forum," by Otis Chandler (Publisher), Robert D. Nelson (Vice Pres.) and Phillip Williams (Group VP, Newspapers & Television) ; 6-pp. report, 8/25/1959, "Observations discussed by Otis Chandler, E.A. Hartford and Vance Stickell... Advantages of Los Angeles Times - New York Times sales combination."

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Salaries

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3 items: memo, 5/31/1930, to FXP (Frank X. Pfaffinger) and HED (H.E. Downing) from HC (Harry Chandler) asking them to investigate to see "if we are not overloaded [with employees] in certain places where there has been a loss of business..." ; 3-pp. financial report (poss. a response to HC above) "Comparative record of payrolls..."

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Progress Report

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"Progress Report - Los Angeles Times Press Project September 1, 1980" Report on Orange County Plant expansion.

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Bound reports

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items. Materials include: 8-plus pp. report, "Guide and procedures for the administration of executive base salaries - The Times-Mirror Company," (8/1958) - several shorter reports had been left inside the same folder; multi-page report, with inserts, "Production Changes, 1961," - several shorter reports had been left inside the same folder; approx. 70-pp. report, "Volume II - Determination of manning requirements, Los Angeles Times Color Press," 7/18/1967, one memo, 7/19/1967, about this report was filed inside the folder.

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Otis Chandler

Manuscripts

Approx. 35 items: correspondence between Otis Chandler and business associates (Nick Williams, William F. Thomas, etc. Includes two copies of a 5-pp. "Harry and Marian Otis Chandler Family" (a list of names), 3-pp. "Otis Chandler Biographical Information" from 12/1971.

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Chandler, Otis - Tape # 5

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1 item: 15-pp. transcript of "Fifth taping with Otis Chandler," 8/5/1975. Subjects include: production, circulation, advertising issues (pp. 1 - 2) ; innovations in electronic transmission processes (pp. 4) ; automation and computerization (pp. 5) ; "sending the paper out of town" and circulation areas within California - S. Francisco, Fresno, Modesto, etc. (pp. 6 - 7) ; Los Angeles Times and continuing antipathy to labor in 1970s ; Otis Chandler relationships with various politicians and his thought about them (pp. 11 - 12) ; Otis Chandler thoughts on Sam Yorty, "a small-town buffoon, right out of the movies" (pp. 14).

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