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At work....going through sympathy letters sent to Otis Chandler, when his dad died. ~tear~

whos Otis?

biLzamo wrote:whos Otis?

He just died about a week ago. He was the last family member to run the Los Angeles Times. His dad, Norman, was a hottie.... There's a picture of him somewhere here in a hot dead guys thread that was started.

Otis Chandler
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Otis Chandler (November 23, 1927–February 27, 2006) was best known as the publisher of the Los Angeles Times between 1960 and 1980. His family had owned the newspaper since Harrison Gray Otis founded the company in 1882. He was the son of Norman Chandler, his predecessor as publisher, and Dorothy Buffum Chandler, a patron of the arts and a Regent of the University of California.

Chandler became publisher of the Los Angeles Times in 1960. After stinging criticisms of the quality of reporting at The Times, he quickly increased the budget of the paper allowing it to expand its coverage and the quality of the publication. This coincided with the shift of the paper from a 'conservative rag' to a progressive and outspoken reporter of the events of the day.

He is credited with the rise of the Times to one of the best newspapers in the U.S. David Halberstam wrote in his 1979 book The Powers That Be: "No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did." [1]

In 1980, he became chairman of Times Mirror Corporation and wound back his involvement in the running of the company. He handed control to people outside the family in the mid-1980s and became involved in other interests such as the Chandler Vintage Museum of Transportation, which he founded.

In the late 1990s, he became critical of a perceived decline in the Times. He was not involved in negotiations by other members of the Chandler family to the Tribune Company but welcomed the outcome.

He died of Lewy body disease at age 78.

And he might have knocked up The Black Dahlia and he might have hired Benny Segal to kill her.....

gidgetgoestohell wrote:And he might have knocked up The Black Dahlia and he might have hired Benny Segal to kill her.....

Yeah...but he still was a hottie. He aged VERY well....just like the great Moz is

My boss worked at a firm that represented Otis and his wife....

gidgetgoestohell wrote:My boss worked at a firm that represented Otis and his wife....

The first or the second wife?

Ahhh...shit...I dunno....it was a civil firm....not family law....