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Newhouse is a publisher who has devoted himself less to the profession of journalism than to the buying of newspapers as business properties. Beginning with the Staten Island (N.Y.) Advance in 1922, he has spent 38 years and $50 million building an empire of 14 papers with a circulation totaling 2,000,000*- ranking second in importance in the U.S., ahead of the dwindling Hearst chain (down to 13 dailies from a high of 26) but behind Scripps-Howard...
Fighting Fire with Fire. In New Dorp, Staten Island, the opening of a new $285,000 firehouse was held up when the Building Department discovered that the structure did not comply with city fire-safety requirements...
...nature. Winter visitors to New York regularly include the bald eagle, who rides the ice floes down the Hudson as far as Dyckman Street. Muskrat houses can be found in the lower end of the Van Cortlandt swamp; the eastern cottontail is common in the fields and thickets of Staten Island; the northern brown snake inhabits Central Park...
Morgan's Bark. Clark, born on Staten Island, got into money finding at 16, when he persuaded a Brooklyn builder to give him an exclusive contract to obtain 5% mortgaging on 200 houses. With his $25,000 fee, he opened an office to hunt up more business. Learning that J. P. Morgan was paying 6% on some mortgaged loft buildings in lower Manhattan, Clark, 17, wrote Morgan that he could save him money by refinancing, was invited to Morgan's office. When he arrived, Morgan barked: "What s.o.b. sent for you?'' Replied Clark...
...that's regarded rather like being named Windsor in England." Will she take the baby-faced lad, or will she marry the devoted gentleman with vaults of gold? Sanders gracefully steps aside to allow her to come to her decision, but Tab leans forward again-in Central Park, Staten Island and Grand Central Station-and displays those bald eyeballs. Meekly Sophia once more obeys the scriptwriter. Tab takes possession, like a tot getting behind the wheel of a Thunderbird...