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10/3 Sunday Rosh Hashonah We walked to Mother's house, having lunch there. On the way we passed a leashed goat near Clinton H.S. When we mentioned that goats will eat anything Eugene remarked that Sylvia was looking back as if afraid that the goat was following her. She admitted it was true. Lilly and the kids there, Peggy looking more grown up. She sleeps through the night! Played chess with Pop. Eugene played downstairs. We gave Mom an apron and Pop a tie. Lilly got some stockings as a belated birthday gift, while we gave Lil $10. as a belated gift for Peggy. We stopped in at Sam & Molly's on the way home. Read Dr. Dunbar's Psychosomatic Medicine. Lillian read Barbara Giles "Gentle Bush".

I definitely remember the goat; we didn't usually encounter goats in the Bronx, even back then.

10/4 We had lunch at Molly's. then movies at the Windsor - two old pictures. "The Fighting 69th" with Cagney, O'brien and Brent and "Valley of the Giants" with Charles Bickford, Claire Trevor  [spaces left]                 Eugene loved them but Sylvia nagged after a while. Russia offered to resume foreign minister meetings and also agreed to have intern'l inspection simultaneously with destruction of atom bombs. A naval revolt was put down in Peru. Farley and Sen Gurney in Spain started a campaign for re-establishment of all relationships with Franco.

Apparently he wanted to put another name of the stars of "Valley of the Giants", but didn't. 

10/5 At lunch Sylvia complained to Lil "You always give me the less, you're like a gypper to me". Eugene at the same meal lost the tooth which had been bothering him so. The Western powers rejected a Big Four parley and went ahead with plans to bring the Berlin crisis up before the UN. 300,000 French coal miners struck. Shipbuilders Local I seceded from the Intern'l Union on grounds that the union had become a catch-all raiding so many other unions that shipbuilders had become a minority. The first play off game in A.L. history follows. 

The box score was actually pasted in in the middle of the next entry; here it is:

10/6 Sylvia learned I's and O's in school and got a star for writing them nicely. Eugene got the materials for the class aquarium in school. City workers struck in France. Russia announced it will not participate in the 'UN' discussion of the Berlin crisis. Teachers Union leader Wallach was discharged for refusing to answer questions before a Congressional Comm. C.C.N.Y. students won the right to transfer from Knickerbocker's class.

10/7 Each kid in Sylvia's class has her own coloring book. Eugene drew "The Blue Junk" by P. Holton "The Picts and the Martyrs" by A. Ransome. Baldwin's "Sampo" (Kalevala). Also a book on the Congo for school. Sylvia drew "Karl's Wooden Horse" by Lois Donaldson, "Quito Express" by L. Bemelmans, "Honk the Moose" by Phil Stong and "Pierre Pidgeon" by Lee Kingman.

Army Sec'y Royall's aides asked clemency for 17 more Nazis. Savannah cops broke up a C.I.O. meeting where members refused to be segregated.

Not sure why he left a line blank. 

10/8 Today Sylvia had her birthday party in school in conjunction with little "Sherry" whose birthday was yesterday. Lillian went to school for a meeting of 1st year children's mothers. The Nat'l Lawyers Guild and A.C.L.U. appeared in court to blast the constitutionality of the indictments against C.P. leaders. Former U.A.W. leader Carl Bolton was arrested in the Reuther shooting. 42 Seamen of the S.I.U. were arrested while picketing for the I.L.G.W.U. in the racketeering probe.

10/9 Sylvia's Birthday THIS IS SYLVIA. I HAD A BIRTHDAY PARTY IN SCHOOL.[Silvia's printing, see scanned-in page]. We gave Sylvia a set of unbreakable Little Golden records and ball bearing skates on which she skated very well this morning. We also got her a birthday cake which we started at lunch with Sylvia blowing out the candles. Oppenheim Collins strikers were fined $20000 for picketing in spite of an injunction.