Chandler, Norman (Death of) - Notes

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  Chandler, Norman (Death of) - Incoming Sympathy Letters with Responses

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  Letters and the responses to letters sent to Otis Chandler upon the death of his father, Norman Chandler.

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  Chandler, Norman

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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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  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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  Chandler, Norman (Death of) - Incoming Sympathy Letters - A

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  Eleven sympathy letters sent to Otis Chandler upon the death of his father, Norman Chandler.

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  Chandler, Dorothy

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  Seven pieces of correspondence written by Otis Chandler to his mother, Dorothy Chandler. One of the letters is a photocopy. Three are memos to his mother, one with a letter attached which was address to Mrs. Norman Chandler. Also in this folder is a letter from C.C. Moseley to Mr. and Mrs. Norman Chandler regarding the John Birch Society. There is a handwritten note on the letter by Dorothy Chandler.

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  Chandler, Norman (Death of) - Incoming Sympathy Letters - Z

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  Two sympathy letters sent to Otis Chandler upon the death of his father, Norman Chandler.

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