Everything about Norman Chandler totally explained
Norman Chandler (
September 14,
1899 -
October 20,
1973, both
Los Angeles,
California) was the publisher of the
Los Angeles Times from
1945 to
1960, and largely responsible for the success of the newspaper.
Chandler attended
Stanford, where he was a member of
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. After graduation, Chandler started working at the newspaper as a secretary to his father,
Harry Chandler, who had been its publisher since
1917. Norman Chandler became general manager in
1936, president in
1941 and at his father’s death in
1944, the third editor of the newspaper.
The
Times prospered under Chandler, and gained regional, as well as national, prominence. In
1947 it became the largest-circulation newspaper in Los Angeles, and in
1961 the Sunday paper had a circulation of more than one million. Chandler retired as publisher in 1960, leaving the job to his son
Otis Chandler, but remained as chairman of the board from 1961-
1968.
His wife,
Dorothy Buffum Chandler, led Los Angeles' cultural revitalization in the 50's and 60's, first with the restoration of the
Hollywood Bowl, then with the construction of the downtown Music Center (the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion, The Mark Taper Forum and the Ahmanson Theater).
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