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...Such a nice family," decided Staten Island neighbors soon after Dr. and Mrs. Melvin Nimer summer-rented the red brick and grey shingle house at 242 Vanderbilt Avenue. Not that neighbors saw Dr. Nimer much; he was busy as a new resident in surgery at the massive (800-bed) U.S. Public Health Service Hospital three blocks away, overlooking lower New York Harbor. But vivacious Loujean Nimer, like her husband 31 years old, was friendly. So were crew-cut Melvin Jr., 8, toddling Gregory, 2, and even five-month-old Jennifer, born shortly before the Nimers came east from Phoenix. Such...
...University of Utah. Loujean helped out their budget by working as a secretary, did her housework nights while Melvin studied and first baby Melvin Jr. slept. After Melvin graduated, the family moved to Seattle where he interned in the Public Health Service Hospital, then to Phoenix, finally to Staten Island for his promising $5,700-a-year surgical post. In Staten Island the Nimers made the first payment on a new five-room, $18,000 ranch house, excitedly got ready for the big move this week...
...Most notable of such ancient bargains: the 5-mile ferry ride between Manhattan and Staten Island, still...
...just 27 when he bought the Staten Island Advance for $98,000 in 1922. Since then, short (5 ft. 3 in.), stocky Samuel Irving Newhouse, 63, the son of a Russian immigrant, has strung together an empire of 13 newspapers. Among them: the Newark Star-Ledger, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Portland Oregonian, Birmingham News, Syracuse Herald-Journal and Post-Standard. The prosperous Newhouse chain is surpassed in heft and wealth only by Scripps-Howard (21 papers) and Hearst...
...centers about a down-and-out teacher (played by Mason) with a craving for the adventure and glamour of show biz; his wife (portrayed by Mason's wife Pamela), who wants him to settle down in "the little white house" and security of a teaching position on Staten Island; and their shockingly precocious nine-year-old daughter (winningly played by the Masons' own daughter Portland...