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3/2 Sunday Sam went home this morning. He needs an xray. Molly is due back today. Mom & pop over for dinner. Pop beat Eugene two chess games. Eugene was rather "fresh" today. Both kids ate with us and did very well. Dr. Soong has resigned the Chinese premiership, Chiang replacing him. Gus Lesnevitch, L.H. champ  Ko'd Billy Fox in the 10th round. Fox, 21 year old sensation had 43 Ko's in 43 fights. Martial law has been declared in Palestine after an explosion in the British Officers Club in Jerusalem and other blasts killed and wounded scores.

3/3 The explosion contagion continued with two in Chicago. Eugene is very sensitive about the way he is spoken to and is apt to become tearful when severely addressed. Sylvia appears to have lost the habit of putting things in her mouth. L. W. Douglas is our ambassador to England.

3/4 [...] Eugene had some arithmetic marked "very poor please sign and do over". Al P. dropped in on the way home from the hospital. Truman is in Mexico in hemispheric solidarity.

3/5 Eugene got a brief case to replace his broken school bag. Sylvia now wants five children. The Anglo-French 50 year treaty has been signed. While I went in the kitchen for a few minutes, Sylvia characteristically rushed over and wrote these letters [see scanned in page]. The first strike in the Cotton Exchange occurred. The bill to outlaw discrimination in education is opposed by a group of Catholic churchmen. They object to the bill's assertion that education is a function of the state. Current song hit: "Open the Door, Richard". Play - "Another Part of the Forest" L. Hellman. Novel - "Lydia Bailey" by K. Roberts. Movie - "The Best Years of their [sic] Lives". Molly just came in after her Florida trip with plenty of freckles.

3/6 Eugene drew"The Secret of the Ancient Oak" by Wolo "And To Think [sic] I Saw it on Mulberry St." by Dr. Seuss "Cowboy Tommy's Roundup" by S. Tousey and American Folk and Fairy Tales by Rachel Field. This Purim afternoon we visited Rochel & David having home made "homentaschen". Mayer came home later and Sandra dropped in. Eugene was rather wild and Sylvia influenced by him, they not having much to do. The UnAmerican Committee is being defied again this time by Leon Josephson. Gromyko again assailed the U.S. atomic plan. Eric Johnson [sic - Johnston] asked for employers rights to fire "Communists" without restraint. At night to see "Journey into Fear" with Orson Welles J. Cotton & D. Del Rio rather fantastic story of international intrigue. Also "The Woman in the Window" unusual mystery with Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett. 

Now I am surprised. I completely remember "And To Think [That] I Saw it on Mulberry St.", and I know it was Dr. Seuss, but I always thought that this was before Theodore Geisel took that name! (A little research showed that I was off by two decades). I remember Sylvia and I pretending that University Ave. was Mulberry St. 

3/7 Eugene recently has played chess with two little neighbors Richard M. and Joyce G. both beginners. The kids skated this morning. In a race, Eugene lost the first heat when he fell but won the next two. The Supreme Court struck a great blow against labor by upholding the federal injunction against the mine workers union. The decision exempts gov't workers from the safeguards of the Norris-LaGuardia act, the gov't having seized the pits at the time of the strike. The fine against the union was cut to $700,000. Justices Murphy and Rutledge were the only dissenters. Buffalo teachers returned to work having won 3 - $600 raises.

3/8 Played with the kids using the B of K work book. Sylvia objected to cutting it up.