Manuscripts

Executives and Directors

Description: Approx. 25 items: LAT article copies, 1940 - 1971, detailing promotions, elections and hirings of executives. Among the prominent names: Otis Chandler, Norman Chandler, Dorothy B. Chandler; Otis Booth, Jr., Walter Annenberg, Harold Brown (Caltech).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1940 - 1971
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Board of Directors - Booth, Mabel Otis

Manuscripts

1 item: LAT clip, 3/25/1955, "Mrs. Franklin Booth, Gen. Otis daughter, dies." Mabel Otis Booth had been a director of The Times from 1917 until her death.

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Other Collections - Mildred Renstrom Collection

Manuscripts

One oversize scrapbook containing many clippings, photographs, and inserts compiled by Mildred Renstrom of the Classified department. Items regarding Harry Chandler, Mrs. Marian Otis Chandler, Norman Chandler, and Mrs. Dorothy B. Chandler are followed by a significant amount of material chronicling staff events and happenings at the LAT, primarily in the Classified department.

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Chandler, Otis - Appointment as Times Publisher (2 of 2)

Manuscripts

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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Chandler, Otis - Appointment as Times Publisher (1 of 2)

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Sales and Marketing Executives Association Dinner

Manuscripts

Speech entitled "The Challenge of Publishing" given by Otis Chandler at the Sales and Marketing Executives Association meeting on September 5, 1962. Also in this folder is the Sales and Marketing Executives Association of Los Angeles' September 1962 bulletin, which is announcing Otis Chandler's upcoming appearance.

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Chandler, Norman - Tape # 2

Manuscripts

1 item: 25-pp. typed and annotated transcript of interview with Norman Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler, 12/13/1972 and photocopy of the annotated transcript. Subjects include: on Harry Chandler, Norman Chandler says, "he liked (people) and he had a soft heart," Dorothy Buffum Chandler said of him, "He was not a generous man to his family, nor to people close to him" (pp. 1 - 2) ; Dorothy Buffum Chandler says that Harry Chandler upheld rigid discipline for Norman Chandler but that Harrison Chandler and Philip "were not in any way disciplined" (pp. 3) ; Harry Chandler's personality quirks (pp.-4) ; more on Harry Chandler personality (pp.-5) ; Harry Chandler's political views (pp.-7) ; DC offers that Harry Chandler would talk of business and politics but never anything philosophical (pp. 7) ; on how Norman Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler lived "very economically...scratch(ing) to make ends meet" (pp. 10) ; William Randolph Hearst (pp. 11 - 12) ; Harry Chandler's travel across USA in 1880s (pp. 17 - 18) ; Los Angeles Times was "the first newspaper in the country to set up a personnel department" (pp. 22) ; Harry Chandler and Norman Chandler on running for public office (pp. 24 - 25).

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