Word: stoyan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THIS IS MY COUNTRY - Stoyan Christowe-Carrick & Evans...
...best-known autobiographies of U. S. immigrants-Edward Bok's autobiography, Michael Pupin's From Immigrant to Inventor, Louis Adamic's Laughing in the Jungle and My America-have been written by immigrants from the smallest countries: Holland, Serbia, Yugoslavia. With publication last week of Stoyan Christowe's autobiography, this unexplored coincidence still held good. Son of a Bulgarian village sage, stocky, fierce-looking, congenial Author Christowe, now 40, is known as a contributor to the defunct, highbrow Dial, author of two well-received books, Heroes and Assassirts, an account of Macedonian terrorists, and Mara...
Fired by returned immigrants' tales of electric lights, elevators and other such wonders of "Amerikanska tzivilizatzia," little Stoyan pestered his father for passage money, got it by going on strike. He was then 13 years old. His guardian for the trip was a returning naturalized U. S. citizen. In St. Louis, Stoyan lived with an uncle, in an apartment where six countrymen, haggard with overwork and economizing, slept in shifts. They worked in the railroad shop, made $1.50 a day, saved most of it. In a shoe factory Stoyan got $7 a week; room was 50? a month, board...
When his uncle died, Stoyan went to Montana as water boy to a railroad construction gang. He and a friend made the 1,500-mile trip in dilapidated boxcars outfitted as bunkhouses, which whipped over the tracks like a snake, threatening momentarily to fall to pieces. But the Balkan occupants had no qualms at all. If the Chewtobaccos, the big bosses, said they were safe, they must be safe. Their faith in democracy was often demonstrated just as literally. Because a giant worker heard that workers were equal with the rich, he carried a mattress, white sheets, wore silk pajamas...
...MARA - Stoyan Christowe - Crowell ($2). Story of a youthful Macedonian terrorist in the gory fight against Turkish oppression before 1912; a first novel, done with folktale simplicity, by the author of Heroes and Assassins...