Jan. 8 Sunday We went to Mom's for lunch seeing the new television set. It is a 16 inch Dumont. Lil Harry & the kids were there in addition to Mr. Sandler. The kids put on their masquerade, even Peggy joining in. They also played hide and seek. ... Two score of patients were burned to death in the mental ward of Mercy Hospital in Davenport Iowa. Lillian again is suffering from a cold in her neck and chin. She uses cold compresses and vicks. 11 men made off with 2 1/2 million dollars in a robbery at Brinks of Boston. An informer turned them in six years later.
Interestingly, the two last sentences were added years after the rest; this is obvious because a} the ink used is clearly different from the entries around it, b) it's written in a margin at the top of a page, c) he mentions something that happens "six years later" and d) he put it in on the wrong day, as the robbery actually occurred on January 17.
Jan. 9 Chinese Nationalists shelled a U.S. merchant ship. There were no casualties.
Jan. 10 Eugene got six words wrong in a spelling test attributable to the new fountain pen I got him, which did not write. There is no ink in school these days. Due to a bumper crop of apples the kids get apples in school occasionally. 50 top police officials were transferred in a step believed to be be aimed at gambling in N.Y. City. Truman asked Congress to approve a $42,000,000,000 budget with a $5,000,000,000 deficit expected. $19 billion of the budget is to be for continuation of the cold war. Mayor O'Dwyer asked for legalization of sports betting under state control. Lawrence Ross, gov't witness in the Bridges case admitted many lies. 5 were killed in street fighting in Italy and another general strike is in the offing.
Jan. 11 Sylvia brought home another apple and again was not allowed to eat it after lunch bringing forth tears. 300 U.S. tanks are being shipped to the Chinese Nationalists in Formosa but we will not intervene militarily. The UN is seething with Russia's demand that Chang's delegates be expelled in favor of a Chinese Communist.
Jan. 12 Sylvia always gets the matzoth when soup is served. Czecho. ordered the J.D.C. to liquidate its business and get out. The Nat'l Civil Rights Mobilization sponsored by the N.A.A.C.P. has refused to accept left wing delegates.
Jan. 13 The piano man came and glued the music stand, got rid of the squeak in the pedal and the knock in several keys. Eugene got only 'grammar' wrong in a spelling test. Another doctor called Chambers a 'psycho'. A British submarine with 76 aboard was rammed and sunk with the fate of most still unknown. Russia revived the death penalty for traitors. Yesterdays 'Thirstday' saved 45,000,000 gallons of water. Lillian read "Mr. & Mrs. Cugat" - I.S. Rorick.
Jan. 14 We went to the Valentine, first searching for Sylvia and having a scare about her. She had taken a walk with little Joyce around the block and we searched about 20 minutes for her. We saw "Pinky" with Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters & William Lundigan. Also "Yes Sir, That's My Baby" with Charles Coburn & Gloria DeHaven. "Pinky" is another fine picture on the theme of Negro discrimination. 1500 delegates will assemble in Washington for Truman's Civil Rights program. Revised figures give 90 as the number of occupants of the rammed British "sub" Truculent with 15 rescued and the remainder given up as dead. Russia boycotted the U.N. again as Nationalist China delegate Tsiang was allowed to remain. Lillian read Taylor Caldwell's "The Arm and the Darkness.
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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