11/14 Sunday We went to the Valentine to see "They Drive by Night" with Bogart, Raft, Lupino and Sheridan. Also "Angels With Dirty Faces" with Cagney, O'Brien, Bogart, Sheridan. Sylvia was in misery throughout. After the movies we took home delicatessen. Sylvia ate only the baked beans. No franks, potato salad, pastrami or salami.
11/15 Lillian bought bed-room slippers for Eugene $1.69. Eugene came home for lunch very hungry. Both kids clean their platters. Princess Elizabeth gave birth to a royal heir. Nobel prize winner Blackett agreed with Russia that the atom bomb would not decide a war. Nobel winner in Literature was T.S. Eliot.
11/16 Lillian picked up her mouton coat today. It is beautiful. Sylvia learned some of the music on her little golden records, She says 'Jekovzy' for Tchaikovsky. Eugene got the magic ring for which he had sent away. The T.W.U. voted to nullify the recent referendum on grounds of fraud and condemned Hogan's suspension.
I believe that was a "glow in the dark" ring, and I immediately went into the dark (a closet), with Silvia, I think, to see it glow).
11/17 Truman refused to agree to four power talks as long as long as the Soviet blockade continues. The dock strike caused truck and rail lay-offs. Minister Moch accused the Cominform of fomenting and financing strikes in France. The UN Security Council ordered Jews and Arabs to negotiate an armistice. Sophoulis formed a new gov't. More arrests continued in the drive against rent gougers in these days of housing shortages. Bobby R. came up to trade comics followed by Richard M.
11/18 Eugene appeared in a Thanksgiving play at school. Sylvia wants a turkey for thanksgiving. US Marines left for China and civilians were advised to leave as the situation grew more critical. The A.F.L. in convention set up on a permanent basis its "Labor League for Political Education". Residents of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper village voted 2-1 against a ban on Negroes, now in existence.
11/19 Sylvia complained to Lil that I took her across the narrow street but not across the wide, dangerous street. Israel will defy the UN and stay in the Negev. The Big Four agreed to cooperate with the UN to try find [sic] a solution to the Berlin crisis through a currency agreement. Green branded the WFTU a fifth column as Max Eastman said we were appeasing Russia and Huey Long's son spoke at the A.F.L. convention.
11/20 Lillian took the kids downtown. She got them shoes at Macy's. Sylvia - brown, size 13 1/2D $3.49 Eugene - brown size 3 1/2EE $6.44. She had measured my head size and got me a hat size 6 7/8 - $4. worth about $7. Eugene charged I always complain of his excessive reading of comics when he does something wrong, which is true. Lillian read Art Young's book. We both read Burton Rascoe's "Before I Forget". Kuomintang claimed a great victory at Suchow with 130,000 Communist casualties. Negro Robert Mallard was killed in Georgia by masked men.
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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