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4/25 Sunday We spent several hours in the playground. Isabel got into two quarrels on the big swings but hung on to hers doggedly. At home we all played "hide the hat". In the afternoon the kids went to the aqueduct with Lil & Ev. They got pops and a merry-go-round. At home we had an ice cream brick. Sylvia was rather hoarse today.

4/26 Sylvia sneezed and coughed this morning. In the park she amused a man giving her didy doll water and having her 'make'. Russia joined the UN Trusteeship Council after a year's boycott. Irgun attacked the port of Jaffa. Italian police fired on 20,000 left-wing demonstrators. Lillian read "101 Years Entertainment" (Great Detective Stories 1840-1941) edited by Ellery Queen

4/27 Sylvia in bed today with a stuffed nose. No temp. Eugene has a "Knox" Cap for $1. at Alexander's. 15 Negro leaders called to a conference by Forrestal were told by Army Sec'y Royall that segregation would stay and that it was not necessarily discriminatory. 10,000 per [pier?] workers struck. Sen. Ferguson called for prosecution of 64 top C.P. leaders. The UN voted to send an American British and French police force. The Arab states plan to invade Palestine with armies.

4/28 Sylvia walked around today. Her cold is in the coming out stage. Eugene still reads the comic books.

4/29 Sylvia will not stay put in her room drawing or playing a game, as a rule. She must be flitting around listening to everything we say, asking questions making a nuisance of herself. The British attacked Irgun forces at Jaffa. PM was sold to Crum and J Barnes. Fields retains a small interest. Many professors are being persecuted for supporting Wallace. J.W. Knudsen is dead at 69.

4/30 Took the kids to the park where I played some practice tennis with Milt Pikulin. Eugene found a squirrel's home on a branch of a tree. He also punched Sylvia for which he had to sit down for the rest of our stay in the park. Eugene tonight vomited twice. felt nauseous, had a temp of 102-101-104°. He complained of a pain in his neck. 

5/1 My 40th birthday Lillian called Dr. Holzman but Dr. Glassman came in his absence. He said it was inflammation of a gland, not the mumps. He prescribed an ice collar to his neck twenty minutes off and twenty on. Eugene's temp was below 100 all day. He seemed fine although we thought it might be the mumps when we heard Arnold P. had just gotten it. Mom Pop Sylvia and I went down to see the parade. We stood for four hours, mama being especially tired. Much fruit and vegetables were thrown at the marchers. At home, Lillian had made a birthday cake for me with five candles. For presents I got a shirt from the kids and bedroom slippers from Lillian. The kids made me birthday cards which follow [see scanned-in page]. Started 9 days vacation. 

  
Twelve Colombian C.P. leaders were released when no proof was found of their responsibility for recent riots. Jews and Arabs are in a bitter struggle for Jerusalem.