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...Polana. A former bank teller, Andrica began his curious career in 1926, when he convinced the Press that it was missing a bet by ignoring Cleveland's immigrant population (then 65%). Andrica proved his point. Roving and reporting the city's European enclaves-the Italian colony on Mayfield Road, the Slovenes along St. Clair Avenue-Andrica watched with satisfaction as the walls of suspicion crumbled between nationalities. By 1932, when Andrica proposed that Editor Louis B. Seltzer send him abroad to look for relatives of Cleveland's foreign-born, the editor was only too happy to comply...
...Scarsdale, N.Y., Nathaniel H. Leff '59, of Dunster House and Brookline, Stephen A. Lerner '59, of Lowell House and Chicago, III., Robert W. LeVine '59, of Winthrop House and Newton Center, Robert T. Lewit '59, of Adams House and Orange, N.J., Robert W. McCarley '59, of Kirkland House and Mayfield, Ky., Gerald L. Mackler '59, of Lowell House and West Hartford, Ct., Lee B. McTurnan '59, of Winthrop House and Bloomington, III., and Richard M. Moskowitz '59, of Eliot House and Clifton...
...LONG NIGHT, by Julian Mayfield (156 pp.; Vanguard; $3.50), puts a ten-year-old Negro boy through a Harlem wringer during one long night and shows him at dawn emotionally dry behind the ears. The kid's name is Frederick Brown, but he prefers to be called by his gang name: Steely. He is a 2nd lieutenant in the Junior Comanche Raiders, reads Superman comics and numbers Jackie Robinson among his heroes...
...steals a bicycle, planning to sell it, it is in turn stolen from him by a rival gang. When he decides to throw away the last of his father's carefully instilled ideals and roll a drunk, Steely's childish anguish reaches its pitch-and Author Mayfield reaches for the help of the long hand of coincidence. Up to that point. The Long Night is a simple, touching story that fuses the night world of Harlem and the frenzied world of a child's fear...
WILLIAM H. MAYFIELD...