12/12 Sunday Played Eugene a chess game, he being out of practice as we don't play very often now. Then played anagrams with the kids, Sylvia looking for the few words she has learned - look, jump, Jane, Dick etc. Eugene heard "Gulliver's Travels" on "Tell It Again". The apartment looks beautiful after the painting. Sylvia's nose was stuffed today. At night she had 100.6. She got milk of magnesia, neo synephrin, privine and the vaporizer. Also sniffing in salt water and Vicks. The UnAmerican Comm. made public 12 State Dept. documents which Chambers claims that Alger Hiss and two other aides made available to him for transmission to Russia, ten years ago. Romania ousted English and American diplomats for spying, with reprisals in similar vein by us. Costa Rican Prov. Pres. Figueres, who reigns due to a recent revolution announced forces invaded his country from Nicaragua. Churchill asked for recognition of Israel and Spain. The National Comm. on Segregation in the Nation's Capitol released a report on shocking discrimination against Negroes. Ezzard Charles Ko'd Joe Baksi in the 11th to win a place as a leading contender for Louis' title.
12/13 Sylvia didn't go to school but stayed in bed all day. 14 Leftists were arbitrarily suspended by Curran in the N.M.U. "UnAmerican" Committeeman Nixon asked for tighter laws to cope with a "fifth column" as liberal Congressmen renewed efforts to reform or abolish the Committee. Hiss again denied giving away secrets, resigning from his leadership of the Carnegie Endowment for Int'l Peace. The UN endorsed the South Korean gov't of Dr. Rhee. Mother and Molly dropped over this P.M.
12/14 Sylvia is better today and walking around but didn't go to school. Eugene had a 3A Arithmetic test. The Supreme Court ruled that criminal suspects must get greater protection of their civil rights in several decisions. Robert Briffault is dead at 74.
12/15 Eugene will be in a play in his class. But he must learn to whistle. Sylvia still out of school. She is playing with the anagrams. Spy probers charged Russia got military secrets ten years ago. Chinese Communists are storming Peiping. Grace Hutchins denied she had questioned Chambers' lawyers in 1938 in a plot to kill him. New witnesses in the probe were a. Pigman, Phil Reno[,] Berle and and Isaac Don Levine.
12/16 Sylvia keeps coming in and asking what letters words start with. Eugene is part of a group which will recite Eugene Fields' "Jest Fer [sic] Christmas". Alger Hiss was indicted on two perjury counts for denying he ever gave Chambers documents for transmission to Russia. The C.I.O. ordered the Retail Wholesale and Dept Stores Union to transfer to the A.C.W. for lack of organizing. A filled "Garden" heard Wallace, Robeson, Dean of Canterbury, Gailmor, Hester, Sondergaard and a message from Ambassador Panyushkin on peace with Russia. Yesterday we had our first snowfall. Lillian read Shellabarger's "Prince of Foxes".
12/17 Eugene came home from school yesterday without his brief-case and didn't even know it. He had been playing with some kids. Lillian went out with him to look for it. They found the brief case near the corner opposite the school. It was open and the books outside. Missing were the pencil box and homework note book. A little girls helped them look for the things then said there was no use looking any further upon which the pencil box fell down from under her coat. The note book was not found. Sylvia returned to school today. She was delighted with a pair of mittens Lillian bought for her. The French blew up the Russian radio in Berlin but did not silence it. We have declared a coalition govt in China will continue to receive aid but not Chiang or the Communists. Pay check $157.45. 4 hours O.T.
I remember the story about the little girl, but I don't think I actually remember the incident.
12/18 Eugene drew "Peter Duck" by A. Ransome, "Stories of Norse Heroes" retold by Wilmot-Buxton, "Magyar Fairy Tales" by the Poganys and "The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle" by Hugh Lofting, a series in the tradition of L. A. Carrol. Sylvia drew "The Gay ABC" by Francoise "Farmers Boy" by L. Caldecott, "Wee Willow Whistle" by Kay Avery and "Children of the North Lights" by the D'Aulaires. 8hrs. O.T.
Regarding "Dr. Doolittle", I suppose "Lewis Carroll" is meant, but I'm not sure, because of the misspelling, and I see no reference to a middle initial.
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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