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Publisher Who Couldn't Get Enough Competition

Otis Chandler, born into the biggest names in Southern California, made them bigger. His family’s authority—as owners of the Los Angeles Times and of swaths of the region’s land—was such that one author said “it would take in the East a combination of the Rockefellers and the Sulzbergers to match their power and influence.” In 1960, Chandler, then only 32, became publisher of his family’s newspaper and transformed it from a partisan rag into one of journalism’s brightest stars.

Chandler died at his home in Ojai, Calif., on February 27 of a degenerative illness called Lewy body disease. He was 78.

Born in Los Angeles, he was the only son of Norman Chandler, ’22, and Dorothy Buffum Chandler, ’22. His great-grandfather Gen. Harrison Otis had bought the Times in 1886, and he and his descendants had used it and their landholdings to influence politics and shape the burgeoning region. However, Norman Chandler didn’t believe in pampering his son, and Otis grew up doing his share of work on the family’s 10-acre ranch.

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Marian Otis Chandler

American businesswoman (1866–1952)

Marian Otis Chandler
Chandler's grave at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles
Born	Marian Otis (1866-07-01)July 1, 1866 Marietta, Ohio, U.S.
Died	August 9, 1952(1952-08-09) (aged 86) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Spouse	Harry Chandler (m. 1894-1944, his death)
Children	6, including Norman Chandler, and 2 stepchildren
Parent(s)	Harrison Gray Otis Eliza Ann Wetherby
Relatives	Dorothy Buffum Chandler (daughter-in-law) Otis Chandler (grandson) Mike Chandler (great-grandson)

Marian Otis Chandler (July 1, 1866 – August 9, 1952) was the secretary and a director of the Times-Mirror Company, which published the Los Angeles Times.

Biography

She was born as Emma Marian Otis July 1, 1866, in Marietta, Ohio,^[1] to Harrison Gray Otis (publisher) and Eliza Ann Wetherby. Marian had three sisters, Mabel, Lilian, and Esther (who died in infancy),{^[2]} and a brother, Harrison Gray (who died in infancy).{^[2]}

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Otis Chandler: A Lion of Journalism

A Man of Many Passions Transformed The Times

Had Otis Chandler never worked a single day, his would have been a memorable life. An Olympic-caliber athlete, a champion weightlifter, an accomplished race car driver, big game hunter, surfer, cyclist, antique car and motorcycle collector, Chandler, who died Monday at 78, was a man whose avocations alone were the stuff of legend.

But Chandler did work, and in a remarkable 20-year span as publisher of the Los Angeles Times -- from 1960 to 1980 -- he reshaped this newspaper to an extent that has few, if any, parallels in the history of American journalism.

“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,” David Halberstam wrote in “The Powers That Be,” his 1979 book about the news media.

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FOR THE RECORD

In Tuesday’s Section A, a caption that ran with the obituary of Otis Chandler identified a photo as having been taken in 1959, a year before he was named publis