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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
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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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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120+ items: letters, memos, reports, charts and other material, much of it to or from the office of Otis Chandler in the period 1957 - 1971 and dealing with aspects of circulation. Correspondents include John Popham and Ray Marx. Split into two folders.
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120+ items: letters, memos, reports, charts and other material, much of it to or from the office of Otis Chandler in the period 1957 - 1971 and dealing with aspects of circulation. Correspondents include John Popham and Ray Marx. Split into two folders.
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Articles about Otis Chandler's son, Michael Otis Chandler. Most are about his racing and his marriages.
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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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