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Mitzie Epstein was just 19 when she quit fashion-design school in 1924, gave up her chance for a career and married Samuel Irving Newhouse, the hustling, 28-year-old publisher of the Staten Island (N.Y.) daily Advance. Last month, when Sam Newhouse went looking for the proper gift for their 35th wedding anniversary, he had a good basis to go on-Mitzie, a delicate wisp of a woman (5 ft., 76 Ibs.) who likes to wear originals by Dior and Givenchy, still has a high interest in high fashion. Last week Sam came home with just the right present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Present for Mitzie | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...When the judge got control of the floundering Bayonne (N.J.) Times, he gave Newhouse a try at running the show. Within a year Newhouse had whipped the Times into the black ("I guess I was a pretty brash kid"). In 1922 he drummed up $98,000 and bought the Staten Island Advance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Present for Mitzie | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...Staten Island, New York

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 16, 1959 | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

JACQUELINE BLAIR HEARTH Staten Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...father of an Irish family on Staten Island carried home a beer bucket. His son Tom, 9, tried to sneak a quick swig, soon collapsed, unconscious. The bucket held scalding, near-boiling chowder, and the burn closed young Tom's gullet with scar tissue. Not a particle of food or a drop of liquid could pass through it into his stomach. So surgeons cut into his abdomen, made a hole in his stomach where they attached it to the muscle wall. For the rest of his life, Tom had to feed himself by chewing his food and spitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tom's Stoma & Stomach | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

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