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4/17 Sunday Lil's temp was under 100° today. Her neck muscles or glands were stiff today. She was in bed most of the time. Eugene heard Huck Finn on the "University Theatre of the Air" which he enjoyed very much. When I do the 'diagramless' with Eugene, Sylvia is right there putting in every word we put in on her diagram. Mom and Pop came over. We both read Katherine Cornell's Autobiography. Lillian read Sholem Aleichem's Short Stories & "A House Divided" - B.A. [sic] Wells [?]

4/18 Lillian was much better today. She was in bed part of the time. Sylvia insisted I play Casino with her tonight and beat me 6-5, Columbia scientists have isolated a virus, which they believe to be the cause of cancer, in research with mice. Home from work. 

4/19 Lillian was up and around today. At the trial in Greece of the murder of American newspaperman George Polk, Gregory Stochto-Poulos charged Communists trapped him into playing a part in the murder. Sen Mundt asked that no Americans be allowed to participate in the Paris "World Peace Conference".

4/20 It's Easter week. The kids played with the blocks this morning. Sylvia cried when Eugene wouldn't share the canoe and she couldn't find her jeep. Another ex-red, W. O. Nowell, Collaborator of G L K Smith testified party members were ordered to make charts of defence plants in 1939. Nanking rejected Communist peace ultimatum. Rabbi Wise is dead at 75. City College students called off their strike, since their protest against discrimination had been publicized.

4/21 Lil and the kids went over to Lillian's today. There they also saw Blume and Anne & Ida. The Rev John Howard Melish' ouster as church rector was upheld by the Bkly'n Supreme Court. A new hormone has been discovered which gives relief in rheumatoid arthritis. Joliet-Curie opened the Paris "World Congress of Peace" with an attack against American imperialism. Americans who participated included Rogge, Fast & Robeson. A subsidiary Congress was held in Prague for overflow delegates and those who had failed to get visas. An Anti-Communist Congress is being organized by Hook. Chinese Communists shelled several British boats on the Yangtze. The latter returned fire and many were killed and injured on both sides. Thousands of Chines Communist troops crossed the Yangtze after the gov't failed to agree to an ultimatum.

4/22 Eugene went to the Dellwood Dairy at Yonkers where he saw milk bottles being capped. The tour was through the school. The kids played here with Betty-Ann and Norma. John Garris Metropolitan Opera tenor was slain on a southern tour. G. Stachtopoulus got "life" in the Polk killing. Two communists received death sentences in absentia. Sec'y of the Army Royall resigned.

4/23 We went to the "Paradise" to see "Three Godfathers" with John Wayne, Pedro Armendariz and Harry Carey Jr. Sylvia had some interest in seeing the baby which is entrusted to the three cowboys. Also "Act of Violence" with Van Heflin & Robert Ryan. Truman called for a national compulsory Medical aid plan. At the trial of the '12' more former 'party' members and undercover agents testified the Communists here planned to synchronize revolutionary action with a Russian invasion through Alaska. Nanking was evacuated by the Chinese gov't. The last of the Nazi war crimes trials resulted in prison sentences for two score with two acquitted. Sentences averaged about seven years apiece.