Opening Hours
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. 15 items - letters, memos and notes for preparation of the article, drafts of the article. Notable names and items include: Saturday Review (literary magazine) ; drafts and revisions of "Remembering Uppie" by Ed Ainsworth, an article that ran in Saturday Review in 1967 ; correspondence between Ainsworth and Norman Cousins, SR Editor and Alfred Balk, Feature Editor.
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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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A two page letter from Otis Chandler to his son Norman Brant Chandler, who was a the time attending school in Carpinteria at Cate School.
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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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Approx. 12 items. Subjects include: real estate coverage; carbon copy (no signature) of a 9/1963 letter to the editor about the "high-flying" Las Vegas lifestyle, and mentioning Frank Sinatra, the Mafia, Peter Lawford, JFK and "Bob" Kennedy, burglary at Norman Chandler's home, a Williams memo to Norman Chandler about Barry Goldwater and the gold standard, etc.
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Four sympathy letter sent to Otis Chandler upon the death of his father, Norman Chandler.
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