3/7 Sunday We attended Molly & Sam's 25th anniversary party today. There was turkey, tongue, knishes, Lilly's potato salad, cole slaw, a great big cake. Eugene Sylvia Isabel and Ronny Bickoff ran wild. The men played cards while the women chatted. Lost a chess game to Milt. Eugene stood on a chair and read the telegrams & cards.
Sounds like something I should remember, but I don't.
3/8 Eugene passed a hearing test in school. Sylvia played London Bridge in the yard with two kids. The hunger strikers were released on bail pending a hearing on a writ of habeas corpus. Ross Lockridge, author of the recent best seller "Raintree Country" committed suicide at 33.
3/9 Sylvia was delighted when I swung her doll in a swing alongside hers in the playground. Eugene often asks about something and when explained to says "I thought so". G. Eisler made a surprise appearance on the UN radio. The Supreme Court ruled religious teaching in public schools unconstitutional 8-1. Truman and MacArthur announced they will run if nominated. A Dem.-Rep. deal on the 8¢ fare broke down.
3/10 Eugene drew Baldwin's "Another Fairy Reader", "Tall Tale America" by Walter Blair - folk hero humor "Rogue Reynard" by A. Norton. Sylvia chose "The Little House" by V. L. Burton. I took Joyce G. along with us. She took three books and one for Norma. The House voted $200,000 for the UnAmerican Comm.
3/11 Jan Masaryk committed suicide at 61. Senator Taylor's bill to return European aid to the UN received only three votes. Last night we went to the P.T.A. meeting hearing an excellent talk on discipline and the child by Mrs. Romanoff. We decided to be less rigid with Sylvia's difficulties.
3/12 Sylvia when told that after Eugene's school lay Walton High School then Hunter College said "Then you get married". Eugene is still a sloppy eater. 25000 marched in support of Palestine in a left wing sponsored parade. Truman stated we are against Communists in any gov't in the world. He also denied a charge he had made anti semitic statements. The Jewish Agency was bombed in Palestine causing 100 casualties. Reggie Weir became the first Negro ever accepted in a U.S.L.T.A. tournament when he entered the National Indoors.
3/13 When Eugene refused to see-saw with Sylvia she asked a little seven year old girl who went on with her while her friend and Eugene fooled around the other see-saws. When Eugene did everything but sit on the see-saws the little girl guessed he was "nervous" about it. She also wished her "darn mother would take me to the zoo sometimes" but she feels three children gives her enough to do. Lillian was due to take the kids to the zoo this afternoon which she did. Wallace attacked Truman's demand for exclusion of Communists from all gov'ts as a bar to free elections. A G.O.P. bill to allow a fare raise was passed by the state legislature as O'Dwyer simultaneously stated the five cent fare would remain. The C.I.O. demanded all state and city councils follow national policy on Wallace and the E.R.P. At the zoo the kids got some small fish at 5¢ each to throw to the seals. Sylvia went on the pony ride - not Eugene.
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.
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