10/5 Sunday Beat Kolker. Eugene went to the first session of Sunday school. 1 1/2 hours every Sunday $1. a month. Sam over for dinner as Molly is away. We have offered to drop charges against the Balkan countries re Greece if they will agree to a border Commission. Split chess games with Eugene as he sprung a surprise mate after I won his queen. Lillian read Budd Schulberg's "The Harder They Fall" expose of the boxing racket. Also "Independent People" by Haldor Laxness. She is doing the cuffs and sleeves on my new suit.
10/6 Eugene drew "Big Music" - 20 tales for children chosen by M. N. Bleecker Stevenson's "A Childs Garden of Verses" with colored illustrations "Their Weight in Wildcats" Tales of the Frontier and Sylvia took a book of nursery rhymes. Eugene gave Sylvia a swollen lip this morning and was punished in return. Communists of Yugo. Hungary, Italy, France, Romania, USSR, Czechs., Bulgaria and Poland formed a bureau to oppose American-British imperialism.
The following Worlds Series box score (game played on 10/3) was pasted in on this page, with the handwritten info below it in red. I believe this was the first occurrence of red ink, which Dad continued to use for notable events.
Sensational game where Cookie Lavagetto pinch hitter with two out in the last half of the ninth gets first Dodger hit to win ball game
10/7 Discovered in park from a class mate's mother that Eugene has been known as the smartest boy in his class every term. The army is propagandizing for an early attack on Russia before it gets stronger. The N.M.U. rejected a proposal to hold a secret referendum to decide what groups are interfering in the union. The Yanks won a sensational World Series from the "Dodgers" four games to three. Truman and his advisers made a nation-wide radio talk asking for meatless Tuesdays and egg and poultry-less Thursdays to feed starving Europe Nothing has been done to curb high prices and excessive profits however.
My guess is that Dad just continued with the red ink after the "World Series" without really meaning to give that info such importance.
10/8 Sylvia would like a present if it's 'cheap'. Eugene made Arnold P's nose bleed causing quite a rumpus. The State Dep't has announced a new "thought control" program. The NLRB voted 4-1 to quash the provisions of the Taft Hartley bill requiring the top officials of the CIO & A.F.L. to sign non-communist affidavits. This latter had been the interpretation of the Board's chief counsel Robert Denham.
10/9 Sylvia's fifth birthday. Her outstanding characteristics are lovableness and stubbornness and shyness. She is very fast in repartee. Mama and Lil & Susan came over for lunch. They brought slips, blouse, socks and Sylvia got a basket weaving set from Arline D. and box of candy from Mrs. Kreisler. We had a nice Cushman birthday cake. Sylvia recited "The Lilac Tree". Eugene sang Burl Ives songs and Susan recited 'Jack and Jill'. Eugene came home with a pen from the Junior Audubon Society in which he had enrolled. The UN rode rough shod over the Slavic bloc voting a Balkan Commission overwhelmingly. The State Dep't charged the new C.P. bureau aims to prevent European recovery. AFL Counsel Padway died of a stroke at 56. Lillian read Ed McSorley's "Our Own Kind" and saw "The Macomber Affair" with Gregory Peck & Joan Bennett. Also "The Corpse Came C.O.D."
10/10 Sylvia had a party for her dolls today. Split with Al Levitt. Eugene hits all the kids around here. Rent Director Creedon approved a 5% increase for Louisville Ky, Truman concurring. The Soviet bloc will boycott the new border commission. Gen'l Mark Clark warned of war against Russia at the A.F.L. convention. Police brutality has at last shocked City Hall.
10/11 I am now in 3A. I belong to the Junior Audubon Society. Eugene played some chess with little Freddy in the park. Chile expelled two Yugoslav diplomats on charges of subversive Communist activities causing a break in relations. An Arab Army is mobilizing on Palestine borders "to protect it from Zionism".
That was my printing in red, scanned in below.
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