Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year, Cambridge's own form of United Nations--the Window Shop--will celebrate its tenth anniversary. At the site of Longfellow's Village Blacksmithe Shop displaced persons now make and sell everything from hand molded crockery to Viennese pastry. Customer's purchases help the employees and the Shop's assistance fund, which supplies money for scholarships to college students...
Almost 150 people, including students, ordinary citizens and new Americans work in the project, either full or part-time. When a group of professors' wives started the Window Shop in 1939, the first displaced persons were already entering the country. The non-profit enterprise opened in a room above the Oxford Grille on Church Street; there the early victims of the war could work and draw a small salary...
...Window Shop became successful and financially stable under the guidance of Mrs. Elsa War Mrs. Brandstorm-Ulich had come to this dent until her death last year. Once known as the "angel of Siberia" for her work among prisoners-of-war in Siberia during the first World War Mrs. Brandstorm-Ulich had come to this country when Hitler came to power. Business growth forced the Shop to move once again, this time to the present Brattle Street site...
...marble baby dimpling among the dried-up plants on the Manhattan art dealer's window sill was badly in need of a bath. But to Dr. Walter Heil, director of San Francisco's De Young Memorial Museum, his happy face and grimy little body had a familiar look. Andrea del Verrocchio,* Renaissance goldsmith, painter and sculptor, had carved some other youngsters very like...
...purchased for the royal family of Württemberg and moved from Florence to a palace near Stuttgart; there it remained till after World War I, when a Berlin dealer bought it, later brought it to the U.S., where it wound up in the Manhattan window...