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8/25 Sunday Went to Woodlawn again. Beat Charlton. We picked berries again for almost two hours. When Sylvia says "really and truly" we could eat her up. Yesterday Eugene left the pail with paddles and balls in the bus. Sylvia was hoping we'd get the same bus again so we'd find the pail.

8/26 Lillian's birthday. She got candy from Sylvia, bedroom slippers from Eugene and perfume from me. All with appropriate poems. Lil and Susan and Mom over for lunch. Lil brought a slip and Mom a blouse. Eugene got a shirt and Sylvia a polo shirt. After lunch we went to the park where Susan and Sylvia went on the swings and Eugene on the sliding pond. We also took pictures. Pop left for Northampton Mass. where he will work at Smith College. The Greek army has been purged of all anti-royalists. At night we went to the Ascot seeing "A Royal Scandal" with T. Bankhead and "The Seventh Veil" with James Mason and Ann Todd. Sylvia wet again. It must be the cool nights. Lost to Mencher.

8/27 Lost to Durst. We went downtown to Export Shoe and got canvass shoes for my work $1.50. Walking shoes for Lil $4. Black shoes for Eugene size 1 $3.50 and and brown for Sylvia size 11 1/2 $3.50. Sylvia told Eugene he could take a book outside because it was "gran-new". Australian delegate Beasley has attacked Russia's "lying and bullying". Talbert and Mulloy defeated McNeil and Guernsey in 5 sets for the Nat'l doubles. Lillian read Van Paasen's "Earth Could Be Fair"and I read Thais by Anatol France. The British have rounded up all 94 males in a Palestine village, searching for terrorists.

8/28 We went to Woodlawn this afternoon where I played with Lillian and we picked berries. The vines are too prickly for Sylvia so she gets an occasional berry but she likes Lillian to pour hers into the cup. Whenever we go up we take sandwiches, milk and cake and have supper there. At night we went out but instead of a movie we walked our feet off rode on street cars and subway and had some snack. We are sending our fleet to Greece just before the plebiscite. Gen Semenov and seven other czarists are on trial for plotting with Japan and other countries to overthrow the Soviet regime.

8/29 The Misses Brough and Osborne won their fifth successive Nat'l doubles title over Mrs. M. A. Prentiss and Mrs. P. C. Todd in straight sets. Today we went to visit the Statue of Liberty. We rode up on an elevator and then started to walk the twelve flights of stairs. Two thirds of the way up Sylvia accepted Lillian's hint that they start down. Sylvia thought she'd get too tired. Eugene was very anxious to walk to the top and we both made it easily. Then we walked all the way to the bottom. We bought a box of pop-corn from which Sylvia extracted fists-full at every opportunity. At night Mike over for a visit. Sec'y of Agriculture Anderson has allowed boosts of 15% on beef and 8% on Pork. The first meeting of the Security Council at the new Lake Success L.I. headquarters saw discussion over eight new applicants to the UN. Britain favors Eire, Portugal and Transjordan and the Soviet bloc supports Albania and Outer Mongolia. Afghanistan Iceland and Sweden are approved unanimously. Admiral Halsey says "we go where we damn please". Peonage is being investigated in Georgia and cops' link with gambling and vice graft in N.Y. City. The arbitrator recommended 18 1/2¢ for M. U. workers.

I remember that Statue of Liberty visit, and walking all the way down, vaguely. The Security Council meeting is interesting to me, as their location was a large conference room at what was (or became) Sperry Gyroscope Company (lots of later names), and I was in that conference room many times; it had pictures of the Security Council meetings. 

8/30 We went downtown today finding the Empire State Bld'g ascent too expensive so we had ice cream, bought some knick knacks for the kids and had a bus ride home. Eugene is very handsome and Sylvia is getting beautiful by general agreement. After I scolded her today she said "If you ever say that again, I won't go to sleep when I'm in bed". She said we found something on the floor of the ground in the sidewalk of the street. An escaped Negro has named a dozen of a lynch mob who murdered his companion. Sentences of 18 Jewish extremists have been commuted to "life" in Palestine. Afghanistan Iceland and Sweden have been accepted by the UN; the other five countries vetoed. Commander Kilian of the Lichfield Camp where American soldiers were tortured by American officers and guards has been let off with a $500 fine and a reprimand. Lillian sits tonight. Yesterday Eugene drew "Overall Boys in Switzerland" by E. O. Grover, "Make Way for Ducklings" by R. McCloskey and "How The Leopard Got His Spots" by Kipling.

I have a vague memory of the disappointment at not going up in the ESB. 

8/31 Woodlawn again and berries again. Beat Ianisievitch [?] and Fischer. Sylvia accomplished nothing but a lost cup in berry picking. We took along a pair of beginners roller skates and toy egg beater Bobby Rosenberg had given Sylvia today and left both at the park. The French S.P. repudiated Blum, voting for cooperation with the C.P. by more than 2-1. Many have been killed in pre-plebiscite riots in Greece. England has barred a Security Council hearing on Ukrainian charges against Greece. Molotov charged American interference in Greece. Terrorism reigns there against anti-monarchists. England has many troops there. Sweden has rejected a U.S. protest against her loan to Russia.