8/10-8/16/47

8/10 Sunday The kids played cards today for quite some time before a fight broke it up. Eugene has been copying a U.S. map in color for a couple of days. After lunch we went to the "Marble Hill" to see the English picture "Great Expectations". Whatever it contains is quite faithful to the book. Sylvia was fidgety but Eugene was very interested in it and also the other picture The Web with Ella Raines and Vincent Price & Edmond J. O'Brien.

I think I remember seeing "Great Expectations"; maybe I just remember talking about having seen it. Don't remember "The Web".

8/11 I clash repeatedly with Sylvia as she infuriates me with her stubborn resistance to reasonable requests. She also squeals at the slightest contact with Eugene. Bill Odom set a new world record of 73 hrs. 5 mi. 11 sec. in a round the world solo flight flying a Reynolds Bombshell. 

8/12 Beat Levy while the kids picked shells of large red nuts. Jinnah has been named the first head of the Muslim state of Pakistan. Pakistan separates from Hindu India Aug. 16. American seamen were jailed in Greece. Bklyn Trust Co. strikers had their strike headquarters smashed while police idled. Lillian took the kids to Devoe wading pool.

8/13 The kids get $18000 from a burglar they killed. Eugene has a gun which is also a sword and a bat. He also has a small gun which he uses for killing. Took the kids to Walton where Eugene showed improvement until he decided it was too hot. It will probably be 95° today. Ray Carlucci, a former labor spy is chief Army policeman in Britain. We threatened to by-pass the UN in Greece "to fight the Communist plot there". The C.I.O. demanded a special session of Congress on run away prices. Dan Tobin and R J Thomas spoke of a third party. Protestant ministers visiting Yugoslavia asserted there was freedom of worship there. Lillian took the kids to Devoe Wading Pool.

8/14 Split with Weckworth in 90+ heat. In the afternoon to pick berries with Eugene, he being enthusiastic although complaining of the heat in his sweat shirt and heavy pants. Later we all had a picnic supper in Woodlawn. UNSCOP delegates were appalled at D.P. camps conditions. The unanimous opinion is that almost all Jews want to go to Woodlawn Palestine. Egypt asked UN to oust British troops. Jew-Arab clashes occurred in Tel-Aviv. Pearl Bergoff is dead at 62. We saw "The Glass Menagerie" at the Windsor.

That crossing out was amusing. 

8/15 Split chess games with Eugene in the park. Then he played checkers in the playground while Sylvia went on all the swings sliding ponds & seesaws. Taught the kids "pisha-paysha". The drive against "bookies" has resulted in police shakeups and demotions. Nehru leads the Hindu "Indian Union". Terror continues in Dominica under Trujillo. In Paraguay, a revolutionary Army battles Morinigo. A Negro "Legion" post was ousted for inviting Robeson to sing.

8/16 To Walton for some tennis then the Strong St. playground. Eugene will not go on the seesaws. The kids played cards again. Sylvia is intrigued by "stealing bundles" Russia charged Greek terror against its Embassy employees. Arab Jewish fighting continued. The Soviet atom plan was rejected 10-0 by the UN Atomic Comm. Eisler was convicted of making false statements in applying for an exit permit. Actors Equity won an agreement from N.Y. Theatre [sic] owners to keep plays out of Washington until Jim Crow is eliminated there. It will go into effect Aug. '48. Mike Quin is dead at 44. Free Pakistan and Hindu India tools [?] were instituted.