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Frost, Camilla Chandler

Description: 1 item: 21-pp. transcript of interview with Camilla Chandler Frost, 1/21/1980. Subjects include: her childhood and youth in Sierra Madre ; her interest in athletics and horseback riding ; acquaintance with the Herbert Hoover, Jr. family ; her memories of attending Polytechnic School in Pasadena and Anoakia in Arcadia ; her memories of the types of chores she and her brother Otis were expected to take care of around the home and property ; she attends Wellesley College (p. 12 - 13) ; expectations people had of her because she was "a Chandler" ; circa 1940s - "You didn't have rebellious youth as we've had in later eras....You were expected to do certain things and you did them" ; more.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1980
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,

Chandler, Norman - Tape # 1

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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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Otis Chandler (1 of 2)

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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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Otis Chandler (2 of 2)

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Miller, Freddie

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1 item: 31-pp. transcript of interview with "Freddie" Miller, long-time administrative aide to Otis Chandler . Notable names and subjects include: her childhood and youth (pp. 2 - 8) ; she started at LAT in 1960 when Otis Chandler became publisher ; feedback from the John Birch Society series was one of her first big assignments - draft replies for Otis Chandler (pp. 14 - 15) ; her recollections of the day Norman Chandler died and she aided the family (pp. 19) ; daily activities (pp. 20 - 23) ; OC elected to Board of Associated Press (pp. 29 - 30).

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Chandler, Harrison

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Two pieces of correspondence between Otis Chandler and Harrison Chandler. Items include a response letter from Otis Chandler to Harrison Chandler's note. Harrison Chandler's note had five photocopies of Sam Yorty articles from other newspapers and Sam Yorty's calling card attached.

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Chandler, Norman - Tape # 4

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3 items: typed copy of 15-pp. transcript of interview (by Bassett) with Norman Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler, 4/18/1973, ditto copy, and photocopy of the annotated transcript. Both copies have some edits and notations. Subjects include: "the very bitter mayorality contest of 1953" in which Rep. Norris Poulson defeated Mayor Fletcher Bowron (pp. 1 - 2) ; on supporting 1952 Republican candidates for President - Dorothy Buffum Chandler wanted Norman Chandler to switch to Eisenhower, she told him "we can't have any (sex) until you change your mind" (pp. 2) ; evolution of editorial policies under Hotchkiss, then Nick Williams (pp. 7) ; Otis Chandler takes over as publisher (pp. 7 - 8) ; keeping Los Angeles Times employees satisfied in view of labor agitation to unionize (pp. 12) ; Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year Awards (pp. 13).

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Frost, Camilla Chandler

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