10/13-10/19/46

10/13 Sunday We visited the Arons today. Had a lovely dinner including duck and ice cream and huckleberries for desert [sic]. The kids did the meal full justice tho' Helen didn't eat much. Sylvia kept plodding along. Eugene had two plates of soup, asked for more desert [sic] and insisted on his milk immediately. Joe played Eugene a game blind-fold. Helen and Sylvia played nicely of course Eugene joining them later. Holding the wishbone, Sylvia wished she lived there. The kids loved the B.M.T. ride because the train went in and out of tunnels. Henry Wallace will edit the "New Republic". Lillian sat tonight. She read Elliot Roosevelt's "As He Saw It".

10/14 Sylvia has been getting Copperin B [?] pills in her milk for some time. She has a tendency to get blisters in her mouth due to the absence of some food, it seems. Eugene is learning "a new kind of addition", he says. This is the adding of two groups of numbers each having two figures. The French approved the new constitution endorsed by the C.P. SP & MRP by a million and a quarter votes.

10/15 The kids like to fill a jeep with little lock blocks making believe these are people. Some are babies - Susan for instance which they imitate by talking like a baby. Sylvia is worried about an apartment when she grows up - as if she knew about the housing shortage. She says there can't be any empty houses when she grows up. She wants to marry Eugene when she grows up but will settle for mommy, daddy, the doll - anyone. At night we saw "Portrait of a Woman" - French with Francoise Rosay and "Hymn of the Nations" with Toscanini. German elections - French zone. C.D. one million S.D. half million D.P.P 180,000 C.P. 150,000 - all approx. Progressives are finding difficulty in getting visas. Timone has been "cleared" by an investigating commission for his B. of Ed position. Pres. Truman in his Monday radio speech announced the end of all meat controls accusing the Republican Party of sabotage but yielding to it in effect. Beat Levy. Played some chess with Eugene.

10/16 TODAY WHEN WE WERE READING MISS CURRY HAD TO READ SOMETHING AND I TOOK HER PLACE. [my printing again - see scanned-in page] The first day of decontrol saw a little more meat but higher prices. The Paris peace parley ended with the Anglo American bloc opposing the Soviet bloc as against the original Big Four leadership. Ten Nazis were hung as Goering cheated the gallows at the last minute by taking poison. The "supermen" took their medicine badly. In a stirring seventh game of a great series, the "Cards" beat the favored Red Sox Harry Brecheen winning his third game when called for service in the 8th inning. York starred for the "Sox". Slaughter for the "Cards". The Conference of Progressives asked for the end of atom bomb manufacturing. Sylvia says "I pledge allegiance" after a fashion. She is playing with Bobby Rosenberg right now.

10/17 Sylvia is in bed with a slight cold. The Pope has excommunicated all Yugoslavs concerned with the prosecution of Archbishop Stepinac. Slavic waiters and musicians coming here are being asked to register as foreign agents. Beat Mencher. Eugene went to synagogue with Gloria and Vivian for a "Simchas Torah" party.

10/18 Lillian went downtown for a dress and came back with cookies - scarce. Food is at an all time high. Raisins - 27¢ box Coffee - 45¢ lb. Bread 15¢ Milk 20¢ Meat 85¢ lb. Eggs 83¢ Butter 93¢

10/19 Sylvia better so we all went downtown to Seidman's 202 Canal St. where I bought a top coat - $30, We bought a little bird book for Eugene. When he looked for it at home later, Sylvia's doll Eleanor was reading it in her carriage. Played Eugene some chess. We have accused Tito of killing American citizens in prison camps. These are persons of German ancestry who collaborated during the war and now claim American citizenship. Many who can prove their claim have already been given exit visas. Budenz and the World Telegram claim that Gerhard Eisler is really Hans Berger and is the Moscow agent who transmits orders to the U.S.C.P. At night we went to the I.W.O. affair.