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Mar 5 Sunday I took the kids to St. James where they fed peanuts to the pigeons. Sylvia would not let them eat from her hand although she wanted to. At home we all played some word games. I beat Eugene two close chess games, one yesterday and one today. Mom and Pop were here yesterday bringing a shirt for me and a new cookie jar.

Mar 6 Lil went to Dr Holzman about herself and took Eugene. Lillian has an inflamed ear. Dr Holzman told her to syringe it with salt water and then put some glycerine in. Eugene has a post nasal drip and must get argyrol packs again also some Alkalon to spray into his nose. This causes him to gag. 

Don't know what "Alkalon" spray was, but the writing seems clear. 

Mar 7 Dr Sanders took the stand to assert that Mrs. Borroto was dead when he injected air into her veins. "Something snapped in me" he said in a deposition full of "I don't knows", "I can't explains". A transit strike in France for a cost of living bonus was incomplete but fairly effective. Edgar Lee Masters is dead at 87, Albert Lebrun at 78. Lou Lehr died at --.   

Mar 8 Sylvia keeps drawing pictures in color of her sch class-mates - Paula K, Sandy I, Sherry F., Sally P, Peggy T etc. A young man discharged from an institution as recovered from insanity ran amok with a bread knife, killing four and wounding several others. 15 were killed as a plane crashed into a house in Minneapolis. Judy Coplon and Val. A Gubitchev were found guilty of conspiring to commit espionage but acquitted of transmitting secret documents to unauthorized persons. 

Looks like Dad started to write "schoolmates" and then changed it.  

Mar 9 Lil's cold flared up again last night. Her nose became very stuffed. She went to bed early with the vaporizer on. Sylvia asked for some paper to write a book report. She wrote two sentences on Cinderella. Mama fell and hurt her hip. She must lie perfectly still for several days. It may be a fracture. Rogge as a delegate of the World Congress of Partisans of Peace addressed the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in an unprecedented plea for free speech for the dissenters from the majority view in Russia. He presented proposals for outlawing of atomic weapons, reduction of standing military establishments and called for a compromise between the Baruch and Vishinsky plans. Michael Shipkov Bulgarian employee of our legation there received 15 years after confessing to espionage. The State Supreme Court upheld the Constitutionality of the Feinberg Law. Several Curranites were acquitted of attacks on opponent meetings but three were convicted in hearings before magistrate Surpless. 

Mar 10 Lillian called Dr Holzman yesterday. He told her to use neosynephrine and pyrobenzamine talbets. Today she used some of Eugene's left over penicillin after calling the doctor's office. Sylvia was slow in dressing again and stayed home a half a day rather than be late. Acheson called for "total diplomacy" to defeat Russia's expansionism. Dr Sanders was acquitted of an alleged mercy killing by a jury after an hours deliberation. 5 bandit [sic] robbed the Sunnyside branch of the Manufacturer's Trust Co of $64,000. Judith Coplon got 15 years in jail for conspiring to commit espion. [sic] Gubitchev also got 15 years but can leave the country instead. Superintendent of Schools Jansen recommended the dismissal of public school teacher Sylvia Schneiderman as a Communist who had falsely sworn she was not one. 

Mar 11 Lil finally felt better today. While Molly took the kids to Theodore Roosevelt High School to see Rumpelstiltskin, we went out to the Public Radio Sales on East Tremont Ave and bought an Olympic 16 inch table model television set DX950 for $295 + $20 for the table. We got 23% off. Gubitchev has chosen deportation rather than prison. The Greek Populist Party of Tsaldaris won a close general election. Tear gas was used against French strikers.