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Jan 22 Sunday We had a party for Eugene's tenth birthday. Mom & Pop, the Beckers, B Edelstein, Lil & Susan (Harry home with the ailing Peggy) the Sam & Mike Modelson's, Milt Shirley & Seth Ian. Isabel & Evelyn came last night and stayed over. Eugene got $10 in cash, pants, two shirts, [?] pairs of pyjamas, polo shirt, games, books. Sylvia got a dress, two polo shirts, and a game. We had a beautiful home made birthday cake trimmed by Evelyn, potato salad, chicken salad, cranberry sauce, soda. Eugene, Sylvia and Isabel who is playing for a year gave piano selections. We finished with our usual poker game.

"B Edelstein" is either really "A (Abe) Edelstein" or "B (Blume) Edelstein", Abe's wife. The first error seems slightly more likely to me than his not writing out Blume, if she attended alone. 

Also, I just noticed that Dad stopped putting periods after the month; looking back, it was that way for most of the year. I will NOT go back and fix previous entries. 

Jan 23 Two right wing German groups merged to form a militant Nationalist party which sang "Deutschland Ueber Alles" at its oranizational meeting. Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury in an ominous jury verdict. A permanent Citizens Metal Health Council was formed by 600 delegates in N.Y.C. Miners 2-1 refused to end their walkout. Alan Hale is dead at 57 and C. E. Hughes Jr at 60.

Jan 24 Eugene played "Drifting" on the piano at school. President Truman and Speaker Rayburn have knifed the F.E.P.C.  measure in the "House". With the bill certain of passing it was sidetracked in favor of another piece of business. Bulgarian Premier Kolarov is dead at 72. Acheson re-affirmed his faith in Hiss, bringing many demands for his removal.

Jan 25 Sylvia will not wash her hands satisfactorily. The Rules Committee kept the F.E.P.C. measure bottled up by a 5-5 tie on sending the bill to the "House". The C.I.O. charged 11,000,000 slaves were being worked to death in Siberian slave camps. Guerillas attacked the new Indonesian Republic.

Jan 26 Lil Eugene and Sylvia got their second 'flu' injections. Sylvia made a face for the first time. She had asked Lil why I didn't get any and Lil told her I didn't need it. 85000 Chrysler workers struck for a suitable pension plan. Alger Hiss wass sentenced to five years in prison for perjury. Murray lifted the California C.I.O. charter for following the party line. Joe Maxim won the World's Light-heavyweight title from Freddy Mills in London by K.O'ing him in ten rounds. 

Jan 27 Eugene loses fountain pens after pen. He also lost his dental slip. Several shipowners have appeared to testify as to Bridges' good character at his trial. The Western powers protested against Russia's resumption of interference with truck traffic between Berlin and West Germany. All January temperature records were broken when the mercury rose to 70°. Wallace again appeared before the UnAmerican Comm. to deny he had favored uranium or atomic shipments to Russia during the war. Jessie Owen [sic] has won the A.P. poll as the greatest track athlete of the last fifty years. Jim Thorpe won the football honors. Greatest sport upset was called the 1914 Braves victory of the N.L. pennant after being in last place on July 11.

Jan 28 We went to the "Fordham" to see ""Blue Lagoon" a picture in technicolor of a boy and girl cast away on a South Sea island for ten years. They grow up and have a baby before being rescued. Also "The Inspector General" with zany Danny Kaye. We took home some chow mein and Sylvia had some also. Manufacture of the H-bomb is up to Truman alone he declared. Carol Ann Paight who shot her pain ridden, cancer doomed father to end his misery went on trial with a plea of temporary insanity.