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Locals remember former L.A. Times publisher Chandler who passed away
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From left to right, Otis Chandler, his wife, Bettina Chandler, Rob Philippe, Penny Lovely, Miles F. Porter IV, Mary E. Staby, Trevor Philippe (seated), author Clive Cussler and Barbara Cussler pose for a photograph in the early 1990s in Rob Philippe's restored antique narrow-gauge railcar on Frisco's Main Street. Chandler died Monday at the age of 78.
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BY NICOLE FORMOSA
summit daily news
February 28, 2006
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SUMMIT COUNTY — Otis Chandler, the publisher of the Los Angeles Times during the 1960s and ’70s known for turning a conservative publication into one of the nation’s most distinguished and influential newspapers, died Monday.
Chandler had been suffering from a degenerative brain disorder known as Lewy body disease. He was 78.
Chandler had maintained a second home in Summit County since the 1980s, most recently in Keystone.
His Summit County friends remember him as an avid outdoorsman and passionate collector of rare and antique motorcycles and cars.
Local Eddie O’Brien met Chandler in the 1980s because they lived on the same street in Keystone and shared a hobby in collecting old cars and motorcycles.
Chandler spent most of his time here in the summer, O’Brien said, and the two would often ride motorcycles together, when Chandler wasn’t on his road bike or hunting.
“This is one man that lived life to the fullest. I have never known anyone who did so much. Ever. Whether it was in business, sports or historical collecting,” O’Brien said.
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