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...second wife, and three years later married him a week after his divorce. During their twelve-year marriage the pair embarked upon a style of high living to which even he had been previously unaccustomed. Together they created a $30 million, 140-acre homestead in Princeton, N.J., called Jasna Polana after Leo Tolstoy's Russian estate, though what Tolstoy would have thought of its air-conditioned doghouse is hard to say. Even before the bequest that may make her one of the world's wealthiest women, she cut a swath through auction houses, and recently spent a staggering $4.8 million...
Sidewalk in Mala 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...
...departure, the Press prints a coupon inviting readers to send in the name and address of the uncle, the cousin or the grandmother they want Andrica to talk to. The response runs into the thousands, and Andrica always finds plenty of people to visit. On a trip to Mala Polana, Czechoslovakia, Andrica heard about a villager who possessed the only concrete sidewalk in town, discovered an ex-Clevelander. Andrica seems in no danger of exhausting his material: in a single Yugoslavian province, Voivodina, live some 3,500 farmers and villagers with Cleveland connections...
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