Word: andrica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stranger Here Myself. An immigrant (from Radna, Rumania), short, bustling, bespectacled Theodore Andrica (rhymes with Eureka), 45, knows the immigrant's nostalgia for the old country. Broke when he landed in the U.S. in 1921, he worked as an orderly in a Buffalo hospital, was ordained a Russian Orthodox priest in Erie, Pa., changed from cleric to bank clerk, drifted to Cleveland...
...generally took a bootleg murder to get "foreigners' " names in Cleveland's big dailies in those days. The city's 36 nationality groups lived together as hostile neighbors. One day in 1926, Andrica called on Editor Louis B. Seltzer of the Scripps-Howard Press. He brandished a batch of scribbled items, registered a heavily accented complaint...
...week. Soon, in a homely, rough-cut column called "Around the World in Cleveland," new and jawbreaking names began to appear in the Press. Known in the office either as the "Hunky" or "broken-English" editor, to whom every mustached office visitor was automatically referred, Andrica worked tirelessly to promote giant dance festivals and international exhibits (one drew 150,000 people), organized a Council for American Unity to break down the barriers between neighbors. The competition decided it had been missing...
Native's Return. In 1932 Andrica talked his boss into a bolder experiment. He began annual pilgrimages along the highways and footpaths of Europe, covering the continent as an editor of a country weekly covers his community, with plenty of names of plain people. Every fall when he came home, hundreds of thousands of Clevelanders went to hear him and see his movies of their relatives in the old country...
Last summer, after a five-year wartime lapse, Theodore Andrica went overseas in a war correspondent's uniform. It was his ninth trip, and this time he penetrated deeper into the Balkan byways than any U.S. correspondent since...