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Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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8 items: Collection of transcripts of interviews with Dorothy Buffum Chandler. Some of these transcripts have been trimmed at the left and have been stapled illogically with missing pages, etc. The only identifying material at top of first sheet - pp. 15 - is "15 (#1)."
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Typed and annotated transcript of James Bassett's interview with Dorothy Buffum Chandler on July 19, 1973. Photocopy of the same transcript with some of the same handwritten notation. Typed and annotated transcript of James Bassett's interview with Dorothy Buffum Chandler on January 30, 1974.
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1 item: 18-pp. transcript of Dorothy B. Chandler interview (by Marshall Berges), 8/21/1979. Much of this interview deals with influences on Otis and Camilla ("Mia") when they were growing up.
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Approx. 10 items: 1-pp. bio info, 7/10/1947, on Mrs. Charles Abel (Fern) Buffum, mother of Dorothy Buffum Chandler; 6-pp. article copy, Orange County Illustrated, 10/1967, "The exciting story of Buffum's"; assorted news clips on members of the Buffum family and on the Buffum department store chain, 1935 - 1968.
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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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Files on Dorothy Buffum Chandler (1901-1997), philanthropist and wife of Norman Chandler, third publisher of the Times. Date range is 1921-1997.
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