Word: chandler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After steering his newspaper into the ranks of the nation's best, Los Angeles Times Publisher Otis Chandler revved up for a different kind of contest: the Six Hours of Endurance race at Watkins Glen, N.Y. Making his professional track debut, Chandler, 50, drove his own Porsche Turbo 935. "I had done some amateur racing, but I had never gone toe to toe with the world's greatest drivers," says Chandler. "It was much more than I had bargained for." Even so, the press lord is now feeling like a king of the pit: "I guess I kind...
...midslather and led to his financial ruin was of little concern. Her ambition had already driven her to beard a haughty Alfred Stieglitz in his own studio-with his own camera. Other victims of Maude's lens included D.H. Lawrence, Eugene O'Neill, Ezra Pound, Raymond Chandler and Robert Frost, "the biggest son of a bitch I was ever to photograph." E.E. Cummings, T.S. Eliot and Thomas Mann get flattering portraits; and a dinner with Graham Greene is recalled in vivid detail and charming conversation...
...Hello, I Must Be Going: Groucho & His Friends, Chandler...
...Polaroid is now selling more cameras than before Kodak elbowed in. During 1975 Polaroid shipped 3.5 million cameras in the U.S., v. 4.5 million units last year, and plants are working three shifts to meet a large backlog of orders. As for Kodak last year, says President Colby H Chandler: "We sold more than 2 million Handles−all we could make." But much of the company's gain in instants was made at the expense of its conventional camera lines. One top Wall Street analyst reckons that instant sales jumped by 58% last year, while conventional camera sales...
...group's seeming misfit was the moody indoorsman Raymond Chandler, who told his host that he had learned how to build suspense by constructing his own characters on the framework of an Erle Stanley Gardner story. The Master was pleased; he never read anything but the competition and found them all, including Agatha Christie, inferior plotters. Yet he could be generous in praise of others' use of character and atmosphere...