4/10-4/16/49

4/10 Sunday Yesterday Sylvia drew "Ring O'Roses" (Nursery Rhymes) "Ming & Mehitabel" [sic] by Helen Sewell "Ola & Blakken" by D'Aulaire and "The Little Igloo" by L & J Beim. Eugene drew "Wakaima and the Clay Man" - African folk tales by Kalibola & Davis, "Dr. Doolittle's Caravan" by Lofting, "Old Tales Told Again" by  W. De La Mare and "Coot Club" by A. Ransome. Lil was supposed to go up [to] the country to look for a place with the Gallins' but Mayer Beckoff suddenly died and she went to the funeral. I took the kids over to Lil's to give Susan her birthday present - pyjamas. There we saw Peggy eating her lunch looking adorably healthy. She bent her head from side to side and dribbled her mush with gusto. Then we went up to Mom's. The kids drew - then we had supper. Canadian Sam Carr received 6 years for allegedly getting a passport for a Soviet agent. City College students voted 2700-1800 to strike for the dismissal of Knickerbocker and Davis. Jackie Robinson played in the first mixed baseball game in Georgia.

4/11 Eugene's report card showed A's, S's and 95 in spelling and arithmetic. The only criticism was that he erases on comp. and spelling papers. Chinese Communist armies attacked Nanking defences pending the gov'ts acceptance of surrender terms. Three year old Kathy Fiscus whose fate was the concern of the whole country since she fell down an abandoned well was finally extricated dead. She fell in Friday and rescuers had worked continually until today.

4/12 Eugene was fighting with a kid again. When he refused to sign a peace pact the kid choked him. Many Nazis were convicted of helping to exterminate the Jews, atrocities against Allied prisoners of war and aggressive warfare. About twenty City College strikers were arrested in a "riot" at the school.

4/13 Sylvia went to Carol Lamphear's birthday party. Eugene's hat was lost in the fracas yesterday. The UN voted 30-7 to debate the Mindszenty and Bulgarian trials as violations of human rights. The "House" passed the $5,380,000,000 E.R.P. bill 354-48. Lil & the kids had supper at Molly's.

4/14 Eugene is in bed again with a sore throat and slight temp. Sylvia worked on a book all day today of stories about children. A Mrs Jones wakes up one morning and feels she is going to have a baby. This is her obsession. Former party members continued to testify in the trial of the '12'. The main charge they bring out is that when the party was reconstituted in 1945 it aimed to carry out the Marxist-Leninist line of class struggle and violent revolution. An earthquake in the Pacific Northwest cost eight dead and $10,000,000 damage. 500 City College strikers picketed O'Dwyer in their struggle against discrimination. The I.L.W.U. in convention supported Bridges against Murray in the bitter intra C.I.O. struggle. The convention refused to accept the C.I.O.'s withdrawal from the W.F.T.U. Wallace Beery is dead at 64. 

4/15 Lillian called me home from work tonight. She had been feeling badly all day. When she finally took her temp. it was 103°. Dr. Holzman came and said it was a very bad throat. He prescribed sulfa every four hours throughout the first night. An icebag to prevent gland infection. Gargling with Bodell's [sic] followed by a throat swab with 10° [sic] argyrol. Plenty of fluids, ...  Lil's temp fell to 101.5 at 10:30 P.M. The UN assembly urged a voluntary curb on the veto 43-6.

 4/16 Lil's throat began to hurt more this morning. She had a bad night with little sleep. She felt better as the day progressed. Her temp was under 101°. Eugene got dressed and played around the house with Sylvia. The weather was too bad for outdoors. Sadie dropped in. She is here with the family.