Word: schoenhofs
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...book that spends months travelling from India or Austria collects a lot of dust, and since Schoenhof's bookstore is full of foreign volumes, the air is thick and musty. In the labyrinthine passageways Mr. Paul Mueller and his ten assistants scurry around the great piles; people pop out at you from nowhere, and if you're looking for a book in anything but English you'll get what you want, even if letters have to go out to China. The firm's buying and selling with the whole world seems to have imparted a secret-service atmosphere...
...worked in his father's university bookstore. After eight months spent at Buchenwald, he came to American on the strength of an American passport, and worked for a while as a butler in New York. Arriving in Cambridge, he persuaded Tutin, the bookseller, to buy the failing Schoenhof's and has run it ever since as a part-owner...
...Schoenhof's Foreign Books Inc. donated $5.00 to the drive and the Fanny Farmer Candy Co. contributed a large shipment of candy...
William L. Tutin, Inc., Massachusetts Avenue booksellers, have acquired the business of Schoenhof Book Co. which will be removed to the Tutin quarters in Cambridge and operated under the firm name of Schoenhof's beginning today...
...oldest establishments in the U. S. dealing exclusively in books in foreign languages, the firm was established in 1857 by Carl Schoenhof, a German immigrant...