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...Norman Chandlers of Los Angeles this week join a rather select club. In the more than 2,100 issues of TIME, only 16 men and their wives have, until now, been separate cover subjects. With Buff Chandler's appearance this week, some seven years after her husband (July 15, 1957), they become the 17th...
Both Norman and Buff Chandler were painted from life by Henry Koerner, who saw Buff as "a goddess hovering over the city" of Los Angeles. He posed her with a model of the new Los Angeles Music Center, used a rich blue cloth to hang in for the city's sky, and added his impressionistic view of Los Angeles at night from the window of his hotel room. When the portrait was nearly complete, Mr. Chandler took a look and found it a good likeness of Mrs. Chandler. Then, possibly thinking also of his own portrait, he told...
Among the couples in the select TIME cover club, Norman and Buff Chandler are unique in the area of subject matter they represent. Norman Chandler was the subject of a story that turned around the part his Los Angeles Times played in the development of the city, while Mrs. Chandler is the central figure in a Modern Living story because of her great success as a leader in the cause of culture. She is eloquent on the subject. She told her story to Los Angeles Bureau Chief Marshall Berges in a series of conversations, ranging over four days, that...
...Buff found that she averaged five visits to each major donor ($25,000 or more). She is especially sensitive to the easy disparagement that with her husband's name and the Times on her side, it is simple to get people to knuckle under. She admits that in many instances the Chandler name has been a help. But she insists that often her connection with the Times has had just the opposite effect. "Out of an hour's appointment with a man," she says, "I may spend 45 or 50 minutes answering questions about things in the Times...
...spectacular success of the Music Center has spread Buff Chandler's fame as a fund raiser across the land. Recently she was asked for her formula by three representatives of the seven-building, $45.5 million John F. Kennedy Civic, Educational and Cultural Center for Nassau County, L.I., also designed by Welton Becket, which will begin to rise late next year...