9/28 Sunday Beat Gross. After lunch we went down to Grand Central Station to see Mollie off to Hot Springs. Sam & Becky B. there, also Shirley, Milton & Sam. Took some pictures. Later Milton & Shirley and we stopped at the W. 42 st. ping-pong and chess parlor. We played some ping-pong and Eugene picked up a chess game with someone who recommended lessons for him as a promising player. Eugene also played two games in the park and two games with me at night.
Don't know "Sam & Becky B."
9/29 Eugene drew "Sir Archibald" by Wolo, "Miss Hickory" by C. S. Bailey "Twenty Little Pets" by Ditmars and Sylvia chose "The Cock The Mouse and the Little Red Hen", retold by F. Lefevre. 16 were sentenced to death in Albania for plotting in complicity with the U.S. & England against the gov't. The C.I.O. will test the constitutionality of various state anti-labor laws. The Georgia C.I.O. with several Negro delegates participating heard Gov. Thompson attacked along with Herman Talmadge.
9/30 The kids played in the playground. Sylvia went on everything but Eugene doesn't go on the children's swings or see-saw. He is listening to the World Series now, his first baseball interest. Tito has invited six prominent Americans to visit Yugoslavia. There is a report that we will equip two Chinese divisions to fight the Communists.
10/1 Eugene and I have a nickel bet on each series game. He has the Yanks against the Dodgers. He is on the Honor Roll in school with no marks against him. Sylvia went on small and large swings in the playground today. Wallace attacked our sponsorship of Argentina for the Security Council. Curran at the N.M.U. Convention called for an all-out red hunt. Cuban authorities headed off a revolutionary force sailing against Dominican dictator Trujillo and arrested 800. Read "Look Homeward, Angel" that beautifully written book groping for the answers to the why, how and where of our existence. Safeway stores on strike.
I remember the bet well. Dad suggested it (to get me interested in baseball, as I later found out) and I remember him saying that he would give me "the better team" - the Yankees. I remember that we traded one nickel back and forth, so that, in later years, I realized that it was the 1947 Words Series.
10/2 Beat Levy. Sylvia just interpreted some of her drawings for us. We are fighting Ukraine's position on the Security Council as a representative of the Slav states preferring Czechoslovakia who we might be able to split. Lever Bros. president Chas. Luckman, head of Truman's Citizens Food Comm. has asked the country to waste less food. Lillian read "So Little Time" by J. P. Marquand. Childs on strike.
10/3 Got the new steam iron at mom's which Harry got for us. Its a steamomatic selling for $19 now which we got for $11.88. Sylvia and Susan played ring a-round a rosie, Susan falling down so energetically she banged her head. The British have intercepted two more refugee ships off Palestine. Milk is now 21¢.
10/4 Downtown where I got a suit with two pair of pants size 36, brown cheviot $24.95 at B[?]utton clothes 95 - 5 ave. We have freed a half million Nazis. Spaak defended the Greek gov't at the UN. The I.L.A. first to comply with the slave law has been served with an injunction under it in a sympathy strike.
My father started a "diary" in 1945 (more accurately, a journal, covering both family and current events), and I'm going to see if this is a decent way to publish it. Since I'm doing it as a blog, to get to the beginning of the journal, you have to go to the beginning of the blog.
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Friday, January 11, 2013
9/21-9/27/47
9/21 Sunday Sylvia took a bath. After finishing Lillian put a towel around her head and told her to wait. When she came back, Sylvia had gone out of the bath and was drying herself of which she is very proud. Lillian went to the cemetery in the morning. After lunch we went to the zoo. I took the kids to the children's zoo as Lillian had taken them when they went to the zoo Tuesday. We punished Eugene when he manhandled Sylvia again. At home Lillian helped Eugene find birds that migrate in the Book of Knowledge for the comm. on birds of which he is the leader. Harry Carey is dead at 68.
Interesting that I'm writing this now, as Harry Carey Jr. just died a couple of weeks ago.
9/22 Lillian went down-town in the morning to get some "Ds" [?]. The rain postponed the sale of produce by farmers at the Federal Building she had intended to attend. She brought home some meat at a great saving however at a downtown market. In the afternoon we played some chess and cards. The Auto Union has opened its own groceries. Albany has banned "Deep Are The Roots".
I don't know what Mom went downtown to get.
9/23 Beat Mary Keller. The kids climbed the bars in the playground and Sylvia climbed into the swing and swung herself standing. Played a little chess at home. Lillian made roast leg of lamb, cookies, raisin cake and pickled herring. C.I.O. leaders at the N.Y. hearing of the price probe called it a fraud. Yugoslavs entered Trieste territory recently awarded it amid great disorder.
9/24 To mother's after lunch where we had supper and met Lilly U. Eugene beat pop a game and they combined to beat me. The kids got a package from Carla, including a hat and sweater for Sylvia, large 'didey' doll and books. "Freedom Train" carrying democratic American documents is exhibiting throughout the country. It is sponsored however by Wall St. bankers and neglected labor entirely. Bulgarian Petkov was hanged as a traitor despite the frenzied protests of England and the U.S.
Don't know who Lilly U. was, or Carla.
9/25 Eugene is "Superman" and Sylvia is "Wander-Woman" [sic - intended!]. They take trips to the sun and can't be killed. Took Sylvia shopping for a birthday present. After turning down two doll cradles because they weren't up to specifications she decided in favor of a doll's swing. Hans Eisler was grilled by the UNAmericans. It was revealed that many interceded for his entry here including Mrs. Roosevelt. Truman called a bi-party parley on rising prices. At the N.Y. probe a professor called for the end of the 40 hr. week amid an uproar. Left wing officers at the U.E. convention were re-elected by larger margins than ever. At night we saw "State of the Union" with Conrad Nagle [sic] at the Windsor. Light comedy on a mild political theme with the liberal Republican wing triumphing satisfyingly. Lillian is brewing a cold.
9/26 Beat Ed Wolfe. Lillian's cold is out in full force. Her nose, as usual, is badly stuffed. Her temp ranged to 101°. She went to bed about 5 P.M. The kids skated about in the park then did card tricks at home. Truman urged the people to eat less to feed Europe.
9/27 Lillian's cold was better today. She was out of bed most of the day although still uncomfortable. Tied with Sheib and beat Zinderman. Eugene skated all day, Sylvia trailing him on foot. At night the kids sold us hammers and pointers Eugene made of his tinker toy set for $1. apiece. England made its usual evasive statement on Palestine at the UN.
Interesting that I'm writing this now, as Harry Carey Jr. just died a couple of weeks ago.
9/22 Lillian went down-town in the morning to get some "Ds" [?]. The rain postponed the sale of produce by farmers at the Federal Building she had intended to attend. She brought home some meat at a great saving however at a downtown market. In the afternoon we played some chess and cards. The Auto Union has opened its own groceries. Albany has banned "Deep Are The Roots".
I don't know what Mom went downtown to get.
9/23 Beat Mary Keller. The kids climbed the bars in the playground and Sylvia climbed into the swing and swung herself standing. Played a little chess at home. Lillian made roast leg of lamb, cookies, raisin cake and pickled herring. C.I.O. leaders at the N.Y. hearing of the price probe called it a fraud. Yugoslavs entered Trieste territory recently awarded it amid great disorder.
9/24 To mother's after lunch where we had supper and met Lilly U. Eugene beat pop a game and they combined to beat me. The kids got a package from Carla, including a hat and sweater for Sylvia, large 'didey' doll and books. "Freedom Train" carrying democratic American documents is exhibiting throughout the country. It is sponsored however by Wall St. bankers and neglected labor entirely. Bulgarian Petkov was hanged as a traitor despite the frenzied protests of England and the U.S.
Don't know who Lilly U. was, or Carla.
9/25 Eugene is "Superman" and Sylvia is "Wander-Woman" [sic - intended!]. They take trips to the sun and can't be killed. Took Sylvia shopping for a birthday present. After turning down two doll cradles because they weren't up to specifications she decided in favor of a doll's swing. Hans Eisler was grilled by the UNAmericans. It was revealed that many interceded for his entry here including Mrs. Roosevelt. Truman called a bi-party parley on rising prices. At the N.Y. probe a professor called for the end of the 40 hr. week amid an uproar. Left wing officers at the U.E. convention were re-elected by larger margins than ever. At night we saw "State of the Union" with Conrad Nagle [sic] at the Windsor. Light comedy on a mild political theme with the liberal Republican wing triumphing satisfyingly. Lillian is brewing a cold.
9/26 Beat Ed Wolfe. Lillian's cold is out in full force. Her nose, as usual, is badly stuffed. Her temp ranged to 101°. She went to bed about 5 P.M. The kids skated about in the park then did card tricks at home. Truman urged the people to eat less to feed Europe.
9/27 Lillian's cold was better today. She was out of bed most of the day although still uncomfortable. Tied with Sheib and beat Zinderman. Eugene skated all day, Sylvia trailing him on foot. At night the kids sold us hammers and pointers Eugene made of his tinker toy set for $1. apiece. England made its usual evasive statement on Palestine at the UN.
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