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7/27 Sunday In the morning to Walton then by cab to Woodlawn where I beat Waldman & Zinderman. Eugene played three people at chess and beat one. Pop was up. In the woods the berries were ready to ripen. We found six balloons there which delighted the kids no end. Read Edna Ferber's "Peculiar Treasure".
 
7/28 Eugene solved this puzzle [see scanned in page] in a short time. He cannot take any kind of physical punishment starting to scream and cowers as if he were being murdered. James V. Forrestal is the new Sec'y of Nat'l Defense. He helped rearm Germany. Remington Rand has settled for 8¢ per hour, and arbitration of the other 7¢. Truman's mother is dead at 94.

7/29 Beat Diembrava [?]. Eugene is devouring the comic books by the scores. Sylvia wouldn't take a shower with me because her bedroom slippers were so ragged it transpired. Sam over with a lovely little dress for Lillian that Molly picked up. Lillian took the kids to the Devoe Wading Pool. Another nitrate ship blew up - in Paris with hundreds of casualties. Joe Brodsky is dead at 57. [...]

That was Devoe Park, not far from where we lived. 

7/30 Eugene drew "The Spear of Ulysses" by A.B. Alessios, Maeterlinck's "Children's Life of the Bee", "Ol' Paul - The Mighty Logger" by Glen Rounds and Sylvia chose "Pelle's New Suit" by Elsa Beskow. Three Irgunists were executed by the British. 4500 Jewish Refugees deported to France before reaching Palestine will not leave their ship. Russia vetoed the U.S. proposal for a standing Balkan Commission to supervise the Greek border. In the afternoon we picked the first berries of the season at Woodlawn, then to Mom's for supper and farewell as Mom and Pop are going away to Feingold's. Lil Harry & Susan also had supper. At night to see "I Remember Mama" at the Windsor with Mady Christians. Trials and tribulations of a Norwegian family in San Fran.

This ("I Remember Mama") was apparently the play, not the movie, as the movie is dated 1948, and Mady Christians was in the play, not the movie; the Windsor did host live plays. 

7/31 Beat Eugene game of chess. Lil made the first jam of the season. Sylvia filled in a picture with crayon then played with her carriage and balloons. Dutch Ambassador Van Kleffens said the UN had no right to stop the Indonesian war as Indonesia was not a sovereign state. Traitor Douglas Chandler got a life sentence and $10,000 fine.

8/1 Beat Weckworth. The kids found a playing card, comb for a doll and a jack which they took home. Irgunists executed two British hostages, booby trapping them afterwards in a retaliatory measure. British troops ran amok in Tel Aviv killing five Jews. The Board of Estimate voted to submit the fare issue to the people in a referendum. Lillian took the kids to Woodlawn to pick berries.

8/2 In the morning to Woodlawn Walton. The kids played casino, Sylvia winning. A British armored car ran down Jews in a funeral procession for the pogrom victims. The UN called on the Netherlands and Indonesia to cease hostilities. The gov't is blocking much pro-Eisler evidence in his current trial.