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Newhouse (846 words) |
 | Newhouser was a schoolboy star in his hometown of Detroit, Michigan, signed by the hometown Detroit Tigers in 1939 at the age of 18. |
| Newhouser was 4-F due to a leaky heart valve; he attempted to join the service anyway but was turned down several times. |
| Newhouse is the namesake of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and the founder of the current empire of Advance Publications. |
| BookRags: Samuel Irving Newhouse Biography (934 words) |
| Born on May 24, 1895, in New York's Lower East Side, Samuel Irving (usually called S.I.) Newhouse followed a Horatio Alger pattern of rags-to-riches by combining remarkable drive, memory for figures, and talent for picking subordinates with a grass-roots sense of pleasing advertisers and the public. |
| Newhouse focused on raising profits, not on news content or editorials, with which he rarely interfered, in part to counter fears in the mid-sized, middle American cities whose papers were bought by this New York, Jewish outsider. |
| Newhouse's career was changing, shifting to a drive for national prominence and distinction. |
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