Word: simkhovitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch ("Mrs. Sim"), 84, famed Manhattan social worker, agitator for public housing, woman suffrage, federal aid to education, kindergartens; in Greenwich House, the famous settlement she founded 50 years ago. With her Russian-born husband, Columbia Professor Vladimir Simkhovitch, she started out by collecting $3,000 on Manhattan streets, moved into a drafty tenement on Jones Street, then one of the city's sleaziest. Soon she was giving parties for her polyglot neighbors, gradually began giving them milk, baby and dental clinics, a diet kitchen, cooking lessons, public baths, music lessons, a children's theater...
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