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9/1 Sunday Had dinner at mother's with Tante Rose there. Lil and Harry bought a '36 Nash. At night we saw "Cluny Brown" with Jennifer Jones and Charles Boyer - Cute. and "Somewhere In The Night" with John Hodiak an unsolved mystery - fairly good. Truckers of the Teamsters Union struck when operators turned down the Mayor's proposals for adequate raises. Controls on fruits and vegetables have been raised by Anderson. 14 of 15 Germans in the American zone have been freed the last one is accused of espionage with Russia exonerated of any complicity. Dorothy Head beat Dot Bundy in a "Nat'l" upset.

9/2 To Woodlawn and berries. Beat Mavis [?] -------. Sylvia is Eugene's echo and shadow. Repeats everything he says. When they're down together, she sticks to him like a leech. In the park she likes me to turn her head over heels. Eugene is using the tennis racket on the grass. Lillian "sat" tonight. Amid terror and repression Greece voted for the Monarchy in a "plebiscite". Brazil in an economic crisis saw riots with Communists arrested including a deputy who was released after general protest. In the Philippines, the "Huks" and a militant labor organization have been outlawed. Hotel dance bands and musicians have struck for raises. Budge Patty beat Yvon Petra in a "Nationals" upset. We found the roller skates at Woodlawn. Sylvia wet again last night. Moriz Rosenthal is dead at 83.

Can't really read the first name of the person he beat, and he apparently didn't know the last name. 

9/3 More riots in Bombay caused 300 casualties as Nehru's interim gov't took office in India.

9/4 Beat Levy. Eugene vomited last night but is all right. Yugoslavia charged new border violations as US planes continued to make flights apparently photographing Yugo secret defences [sic]. Herschel V Johnson is our present delegate to the Security Council. Bottvinik won the Chess Masters tourney. Euwe 2nd.

Maybe he was reading some British report about the "defences"?

9/5 Beat Levy. Sadie and the kids over. Stock market is nose diving. Manuilsky proved British intervention in Greece. At Lake Success A.F.L. seamen are now on strike. At the Tenn. Negro trial Judge Ingram denied the right to quiz prospective jurors on race prejudice. Sylvia wet again. Eugene complained of stomach aches the last two nights.

9/6 Eugene organized a parade in the house with Sylvia then in the yard with Betty-Ann and Bobby also. In "Nationals" upsets P.C. Todd beat Louise Brough in straight sets and Bob Falkenburg beat Billy Talbert in five sets. The Ambassador to Argentina George Messersmith is under fire for alleged speeches there talking of the inevitability of war with Russia. Doris Hart upset M. Osborne in the "Nationals".

Betty-Ann was the daughter of the "super" of our building.

9/7 Sylvia is very anxious to see the dressing room in the Concourse Tennis courts which Eugene told her about. Tom Brown upset Frankie Parker in five sets. Split with Sheib. Yugoslavia has downed a Greek spying plane. Byrnes has made a speech calling for early German self-rule and a united Germany. 2500 ships are tied up by the AFL Seamen's strike against a cutback in wages. A meat famine is in the offing with thousands of meat workers are [sic] laid off as meat controls are returning. Gabriel Gonzales Videla, C.P. and progressive candidate for the Chilean presidency has a margin of 50,000 votes over his nearest competitor and is expected to be seated by Congress. Jesus Pinero first native born Governor took office in Puerto Rico. The trucking strike has tied up the whole Atlantic seaboard.

I don't remember "Concourse Tennis courts".