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Description: Approx. 40 items: articles about Dorothy Chandler from LAT, Journal, Fortune, Los Angeles (magazine), Westways, New West, People and other publications; 8-pp. booklet, "Humanitarian Award (presentation banquet) - Dorothy Buffum Chandler," for Variety Clubs International Annual Convention, 5/31/1974; complete issue, The Barker (Variety Clubs International.), 2/1974, pp. 4, "Humanitarian Award to Mrs. Chandler," handwritten note from Editor Charles Gnaegy inside mag ; complete issue, PSA - the California Magazine, 6/1974, segment of cover story, pp. 60, on Dorothy Buffum Chandler; complete issue, Westways, 2/1975, pp. 18, "Soul of the [Music] Center - ...Dorothy Chandler...did her city proud." Split into two folders.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1970 - 1979
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
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Manuscripts

Approx. 40 items: articles about Dorothy Chandler from LAT, Journal, Fortune, Los Angeles (magazine), Westways, New West, People and other publications; 8-pp. booklet, "Humanitarian Award (presentation banquet) - Dorothy Buffum Chandler," for Variety Clubs International Annual Convention, 5/31/1974; complete issue, The Barker (Variety Clubs International.), 2/1974, pp. 4, "Humanitarian Award to Mrs. Chandler," handwritten note from Editor Charles Gnaegy inside mag ; complete issue, PSA - the California Magazine, 6/1974, segment of cover story, pp. 60, on Dorothy Buffum Chandler; complete issue, Westways, 2/1975, pp. 18, "Soul of the [Music] Center - ...Dorothy Chandler...did her city proud." Split into two folders.

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Miscellaneous

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Approx. 75 items: assorted memos, charts, press releases, reports, photographs, etc. (most material is duplicated in other files), related to Dorothy B. Chandler; 3 copies of the "Humanitarian Award" booklet, for "Dorothy Buffum Chandler, Variety Clubs Int'l., 47th Annual Convention," 5/31/1974; "Humanitarian Award Presentation Banquet" booklets for award winners Welthy Honsinger Fisher (1971), Danny Kaye (1972), and Billy Butlin.

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Chandler, Norman - Tape # 2

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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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Chandler, Dorothy Buffum - Tapes #1 and 2

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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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Articles

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LAT article copy, 7/13/1997, "Will power ...Dorothy Buffum Chandler...had the audacity to..."

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Articles

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Approx. 18 items. among the major articles are: tear sheet, Los Angeles (magazine), 11/1980, "The Music Center takes off its white gloves"; 2 tear sheets of article, "W" (magazine), 9/9/1983, "Buff Chandler...the right person at the right time"; complete copy, L.A. Edition (Greater Los Angeles Visitors & Convention Bureau), Fall/Winter 1984; "Spotlight - Dorothy Buffum Chandler"; related notes, letters, etc. (1980 - 1986)

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