10/9 Sylvia's Birthday The Yanks won the 4th 6-4. The Dodgers made a 4 run rally in the 6th knocking out Lopat. The Yanks Ko'd Newcomb. We had a birthday party for Sylvia. Present were Mom & pop, Tante Blume & Uncle Abe, Ann & Mac, Lil & Harry, Sam & Molly & Evelyn. Children were Sylvia, Eugene, Barbara & Richard Seth who slept throughout, Susan & Peggy, who made a pig of herself just as Susan used to, Isabel. Lewis Wasserberger & Arlene Drucker came up for the children's party. We had a lovely dinner with potted chicken & meat balls and a nice birthday cake. Eugene worked on a jig saw puzzle he got today for about two hours After the kids played a "western" game with guns etc. Mom, Pop, Uncle Abe, Sam, Molly & I played poker - 5 &10¢. Sylvia got some beautiful gifts including blouses, dresses, bathrobe etc. She wore a beautiful blue rayon faille dress which Lillian had made for her.
10/10 Sylvia also got a pen and pencil set and a "Mickey Mouse" Watch which she is crazy about. She marvels that it is still running. We gave Sylvia an accordion and Eugene a Tru View [sic] stereoscope. French Unions are beginning to strike in the devaluation crisis. Yanks won the World Series 4 games to 1 by winning yesterday 10-6.
10/11 Sylvia knows why you can't fall off the earth no matter where you stand. "Gravity". The U.N. was told by Manuilsky that Spellman had financed Mindszenty in 1947 to overthrow the Hungarian regime. Austrian elections gave the People's Party 77 seats. Socialists 67 seats. League of Independent Voters (Nazi) 16 seats. C.P. 5 seats. The Farm Equipment Workers Union continued to defy the C.I.O.'s order to merge with the U.A.W. by voting to merge with the U.E. Most of the Chinese Embassy staff in Paris came out for the Chinese Communists. A heat record of 88° for Oct 10 was set yesterday. Lillian read Hans Habe's "Walk in the Darkness", DeVoto's "Mountain Time". We both read Ojike's "I have two Countries".
10/12 A Sylvia 2A poem. "How Birds Sleep". "When jolly sun has gone to bed, and stars begin to peep, then all the little birdies know that it is time to sleep. They fly up to the tallest tree and there they hang on tight. And stick their heads beneath their wings and sleep throughout the night". An October heat record was broken with 85°. Russia asked a UN census of all Atom bombs. Wilhelm Pieck became president of the new East German Republic. Milk went down 1-2 cents.
10/13 Sylvia is anxious about a television set. Wide arrests are being made in Czechoslovakia aimed at the middle class it is reported. The Senate rejected Leland Olds 53-18.
10/14 A move to censor or ban left wing books in Scarsdale public schools has been initiated but is being fought by equally wealthy natives.
10/15 Sylvia drew "Wee Gillis" by Munro Leaf, "Barkis" by C.T. Newberry, "Lovina" by K. Milhous, and "Raven the Rascal" by H. Weissenborn. Eugene drew "Stories of the Gods & Heroes" by Sally Benson, "Freddys Cousin Weedly" by W.R. Brooks, "Tales of the Persian Genii" by Olcott & Pogany and "Secret Water" by Ransome. The Federal Court jury found the 11 Communist defendants guilty of conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the gov't after seven hours of deliberation. To rub it in, Judge Medina then sentenced defence lawyers to jail terms for willful contempt. Sacher & Gladstein - 6 months. Isserman and Crockett - 4 months, McCabe 30 days. The defendants were Stachel, Gil Green, Gates, Davis, Winston, Winter, Hall, Potash, Thompson & Williamson & Dennis. Dennis who acted as his own counsel also received 6 months for contempt. Clergymen were made Civil Servants under a new law passed in Czech.
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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