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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
A sympathy letter from Otis Chandler to Mrs. Guilford Babcock III [Gwen Garland] regarding the death of her mother, Helen Garland.
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1 item: 56-pp. transcript of ABC-tv program featuring the comments of John Babcock, Otis Chandler, Ben Bagdikian, David Halberstam, Carey McWilliams, Bill Robertson, Jack Tatum, Eldon Finley, Ralph Nader, Pat Brown, John Pastier and Marshall Berges. Subjects include: Bagdikian's view that newspapers owned by big conglomerates tend to write news based on the wishes of the conglomerate -- Otis Chandler refuted that as far as Times Mirror went, indicating that the writers and editors are free to report as they see fit ; Halberstam gives his impressions of Otis--"by Chandler standards a liberal... I think he wants to do the right thing" ; Halberstam on Harrison Gray Otis, founder of what became the Times Mirror empire - "He was a bellicose man...combative, aggressive...rather fight than make a profit" ; Los Angeles Times boosterism : Los Angeles Times vs. the unions ; Halberstam on Harry Chandler - "an economic tycoon (who) wanted power" ; how Harrison Gray Otis and later Harry Chandler amassed the money and power that carried forward the Times Mirror "empire" ; Owens River aqueduct ; real estate dealings ; Tejon Ranch ; Otis C. on extended Chandler stockholders - "They're very unhappy with me sometimes" ; Halberstam on Dorothy Chandler - "considered the radical liberal within the (extended Chandler) family" ; development of Downtown and the Music Center ; objectivity of Los Angeles Times.
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Two pieces of correspondence between George Gallup and Otis Chandler, which includes a copy of confidential report entitled "National Survey of Newspaper Readers, dated July 1976.
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1 item: ring-bound book, approx. 70-pp., self-published by a relative of Marian Otis Chandler, titled "The Ancestry of Marian Otis Chandler."
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Three letters of correspondence between John Babcock, Executive Producer of Special Projects at KABC-TV, and Otis Chandler, regarding the series on the Times entitled Life and Times of Citizen Chandler.
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