7/25-7/31

7/25 Sunday All the kids attended Arthur's 7th birthday party. Sylvia won a bubble water set. Eugene won a yo-yo in a "Simple Simon Says" contest. Later Eugene had another fight with Glenn and had an emotional upset. This was due to the fact that he doesn't want to fight this way - hands behind backs and bumping each other with bodies - but doesn't want to back out.

7/26 Eugene and I went berry picking and got lost in the woods where we wandered for an hour before we came out on the road a mile from our house. Later Abe Friedman called for us and Ev & Isabel taking us to his bungalow at Swan Lake for supper.

Between this entry and the next, he pasted in a baseball box score, scanned in below; the reason is left as an exercise to the reader. Hint - see the number he circled. Interestingly, the game was actually a week earlier; July 18.  

7/27 Sylvia has been very changeable in her moods. She is generally very uncertain in the morning then begins to warm up and plays about without our supervision. At night Lillian and I walked up to the Capitol Mansion Hotel. It is frequented by elderly Jewish people.

7/28 Sylvia made a big scene as Lillian went to Liberty to shop this morning. However after she was diverted she was O.K. Truman asked an end to inflation at the special session of Congress. He asked action on wages and prices, civil rights, housing, rent control, minimum wages and D.P. Quotas. The Greek gov't offensive was stalled and the general replaced. New French Premier Andre Marie was installed. Christian Dem. labor leaders were expelled from the Italian Labor Fed. on the issue of the gen'l strike following the Togliatti shooting. Susan Glaspell is dead at 66 and Joe Tinker at 68. An explosion in a Farben plant in Germany killed 300.

7/29 I played around with about ten of the children in the place. Eugene later during our shower told me much about "Superman". When I asked him whether he thought Superman was real he said "of course not".

7/30 Eugene's legs and arms are full of bruises covered with band aids. He has learned to bat pretty well. The Senate is filibustering the Anti Poll Tax bill.

7/31 Eugene hit the tough youngster of the place Arthur who fell squaling. Sylvia asked me to say a. b. c. then she finished "Pull up your pants and let me see". Who taught her this? Arthur.

This is the last dated entry in Book III. The next entry will be the "Index" to Book III.