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Chandler, Otis
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Chandler, Otis - Tape # 6
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2 items: 4-pp. Los Angeles Times "Conflict of interest policy guide," no date ; 10-pp. transcript of "Sixth taping with Otis Chandler," 8/6/1975. Subjects discussed include: Times Mirror expansion from the 1950s to the 1970s, antitrust issues involving print and broadcast news outlets being owned by the same entity (pp. 1 - 2) ; on getting out of Vietnam (pp. 5 - 6) ; Geotek scandal (pp. 8) ; security threats to Otis and his family (pp. 9 - 10).
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Chandler, Otis
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Approx. 30 items - memos, letters, speech transcripts. Notable names and items: material related to Otis Chandler profile on Cable News Network, 5/1985 ; material related to OC as guest on Michael Jackson radio show, 2/1981 ; Los Angeles Rotary (#5 Chapter) ; "Confidential" memo, 1/28/1972, Stickell to OC, with suggestions about how to woo the owners of another paper that may be going up for sale ; 10-pp. packet, under cover note with large, handwritten word "GULP," contains transcripts of remarks, 4/28/1977, at "The Morton Newspaper Forum," by Otis Chandler (Publisher), Robert D. Nelson (Vice Pres.) and Phillip Williams (Group VP, Newspapers & Television) ; 6-pp. report, 8/25/1959, "Observations discussed by Otis Chandler, E.A. Hartford and Vance Stickell... Advantages of Los Angeles Times - New York Times sales combination."
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Chronological File - December
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Approx. 70 items. Letters and memos. Subjects include: effort to cut down on long distance phone calls and phone calls in general; letter to U.S. Judge Irving Kaufman, on a K. editorial in the American Bar Assn. Journal on co-operation between those in the legal field and the news media; expenses of Travel Editor Jerry Hulse; more defense of Paul Conrad--"I'm not always in agreement with him, (but) his point of view is useful, and...stimulating"; letter to Newsday Specials canceling LAT use of Erma Bombeck's columns; letters of thanks to staffers marking their 5th LAT anniversaries;
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Chandler, Otis - by Ann Martin
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1 items: 28-pp. transcript of interview of Otis Chandler by ABC-TV newscaster Ann Martin, 10/26/1979. Based on header material, it is unclear whether the actual interview took place in 1978 or 1979. Notable names and subjects include: race car driving (pp. 2 - 5) ; "a working newspaper publisher" (pp. 6) ; Otis kids actor Jack Nicholson about "Chinatown," a film loosely based on the water and land dealings of Harrison Gray Otis and Harry Chandler, Otis' grandfather (pp. 8) ; Otis Chandler refers to Los Angeles Times' editorial policy as "militant centrist" (pp. 15) ; editing, layout and printing of the paper will soon be completely computerized (pp. 16) ; his big game hunting (pp. 17 - 19) ; his answer to critics of his paper and his policies (pp. 26 - 27).
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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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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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