11/28-12/4/48

11/28 Sunday Played a chess game with Eugene after which he joined Sylvia in playing with the jeep, boat and pieces. Sylvia has the sniffles.

11/29 Sylvia didn't go to school today. I took Eugene to the Grand after school where we saw "In Old Los Angeles" and "A Date With Judy" with Robert Stack, Jane Powell, Eliz. Taylor and Wallace Beery. Then Lillian went to the Valentine to see "Johnny Belinda" with Jane Wyman & Lew Ayres and "Embraceable You". Bus fares went up to seven cents with a combined ride still 12¢. Chinese Communists encircled Suchow. Executives of Phi Kappa Psi upheld the suspension of the Amherst chapter for pledging a Negro.

11/30 Eugene was among those chosen to take an intelligence test. Sylvia returned to school. She intends to bring her wish-bone there. The pier and truck strikes ended. Russia accepted the UN plan for solution of the Berlin crisis. This entails mediation by a neutral commission.

12/1 Sylvia is delighted with her first brief case. Eugene is doing his 300 piece jig saw day by day. Several lawyers were arrested in a divorce racket raid. Communists set up their own Berlin regime to rival the Western supported one. England conceded the Negev to Israel. The opening operat opera at the "Met", "Otello" was televised on Monday for the first time. 

12/2 The gov't is desperately preparing to defend Nanking from the oncoming 'Reds'. Mme Chiang arrived in Wash. on her unofficial mission to ask aid. Left wingers heckled Berlin meetings in the U.S. sector resulting in violence.

12/3 We got an O.P.A. order reducing our rent 15% which finally brought the painter to our house this morning after three years, the legal limit now. Sylvia thought the kitchen was beautiful when she came home for lunch. She also "snitched" on Eugene, against his protests, that boys threw his hat across the street and another time a boy hit him and knocked his glasses off. The Bernadotte Plan was finally killed by the UN's
Polit Comm. A milk war temporarily brought prices down to 12 1/2¢ in B'klyn. Chinese Communists took Suchow. Stan Musial won the N.L. M.V.P. award.

12/4 The spy scare starts again with microfilm found concealed in a pumpkin on Whittaker Chambers farm containing secret material from State Dept. files. Three thousand Chinese refugees were feared dead in an explosion on ship [sic] outside Shanghai.