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10/10 Sunday We had the family over for dinner. Mom and Pop Lil Harry and the kids, Blume & Abe, Anne & Mac, Molly & Sam. Peggy was adorable and didn't cry at all. Eugene played with Susan, holding her up with a gun. Sylvia and Barbara played together. We had spaghetti and meat balls which Lil made deliciously. Sylvia got a plastic set of glasses from Molly, plaid skirt from Mom, pyjamas and socks from Lil, dress from Anne & Blouse from Blume. We played some cards after eating.

10/11 Sylvia got two stars on her paper where she wrote cat beautifully. Eugene saw the whole process of getting milk to the consumer in a technicolor picture in school. After school we went to the Lido seeing Walt Disney's "Melody Time" and "The Return of the Bad Men" with Randolph Scott. Sylvia showed some interest but reverted to nagging later. When Randolph Scott was dropped as if shot in one scene, she asked if he was making believe, something that fooled the rest of us. Lillian went to see Sadie in the evening. She had come in from Syracuse with the kids. Truman gave up a reported move to send Chief Justice Vinson to Moscow for direct negotiations. 1500 violations in Harlem houses were found by a group of 50 volunteer investigators sponsored by the A.L.P. and tenants organizations. The greatest baseball crowd ever 86,288 saw the Boston Braves win their 2nd game out of five with the Indians. Lillian read Pearl Buck's "Pavilion of Women".

10/12 Columbus Day Came home early as it was Yom Kippur eve. We went window shopping in Fordham where Sylvia asked if there were any holidays after "Young skipper". The kids romped noisily annoying Lil. Wallace charged the new Western powers Axis to be worse than the last one. Two liberal Democrats were ousted from the Arizona State Legislature in a frame-up. The Indians beat the Braves 4-2 to win the World Series. Gene Bearden was the pitching star. Sadie dropped in with the three children. Robert crawled all over the floor. Arline played with Sylvia while Eugene and Fredi paired off.

10/13 This is Eugene. I am in the 4th grade. I am making a sewing box as a surprise for mother. U.S. delegate Austin lashed Russia in the bitterest attack yet while Vyshinsky promised to submit info. on Russia's military strength simultaneously with an agreement to abolish the atom bomb and reduce armaments by one third within a year. Santo was ordered deported but will appeal. Lillian took the kids to the Windsor to see Sabu in "Elephant Boy" and "The Mark of Zorro".

10/14 Sylvia told me about the baby elephant squirting water on the mother. In Denver C.P. leaders are being jailed without trial or bail until they inform on their comrades. 

10/15 Sadie over with Fredi and Arline before going home. Later Lil took the kids to Molly to say goodbye as she is leaving for Hot Springs Sunday. Wallace asked the people to demand US - USSR negotiations. City C.I.O. officials were probed in Wash. D.C. by a C.I.O. investigating comm. on the charges of disloyalty and disruption. Fist fights broke out during the probe. Probers were Pat McGrath, Quill, Wolchok, Faber, Thomas Naughton Froesch, Buckmaster, Wagner. City C.I.O. reps were Schweidin, Guinier, Young, Mills, Durkin Burt. [not sure of every name]. The Arab League of Nat'l Liberation merged with the Israel C.P. Lillian went to a meeting called by the dentist's wife and became class mother.

10/16 The kids went to the dentist. Eugene had xrays of two teeth but Sylvia wouldn't take one. They didn't need any work. The bill was $8.for two cleanings and the xray. They were supposed to start fluorin [sic] treatments this morning but the schools announced they will do it soon. 3500 picketed the C.P. leaders trial. It was postponed to Nov. 1. Lillian read Howard Fast's "Conceived In Liberty".