April 9 Sunday Easter Sunday came with some snow-flurries. We watched Bob Hope's television debut on Frigidaire's program also featuring Doug Fairbanks Jr, Dinah Shore and Beatrice Lillie. Lillian read "An Act of Love" by Ira Wolpert and Steinbeck's "The Wayward Bus". We both read Clayton Fountain's "Union Guy" - story of the U.A.W. and "We Survived" Eric Boehm. The harrowing stories of fourteen Germans who survived Nazism's horrors.
April 10 Easter Week and Lillian took the kids to the R.K.O. Fordham to see Walt Disney's "Cinderella" which was delightful. Also "Savage Splendor" African documentary. The kids then got ice cream, comic books and a Cinderella record. 5 cops were questioned about their connections with 'bookies'.
April 11 Bridges was sentenced to five years imprisonment. The Supreme Court refused to review the case of the "Hollywood Ten".
April 12 Sylvia does just as she pleases no matter what anyone says. When Eugene finally hits her she comes wailing to Lil. Bolivia outlawed the C.P. A Russian and American plane exchanged fire over Latvia with each charging the other fired first. Vishinsky has made a strenuous protest here. Radio producer Hugh Ernst, estranged from Actress Betty Furness, phoned a newspaper then committed suicide.
April 13 At the "UnAmerican" Comm. hearings in Honolulu, several remorseful former Communists confessed all and implicated many I.L.W.U. leaders as party members. The plane which was shot down by Russians has been the object of a search in the Baltic with only [an] oil slick found so far. Bainbridge Colby is dead at 80 and Andrew Ponzi at 47. Mom, Lil and the kids came over seeing our refrigerator and television for the first time. Susan weights 70 lbs. Peggy... banged the piano watching for disapproval out of the corner of her eye. She says "No-N-O".
April 14 50 men and women were rounded up for questioning in the gambling and graft probe. O'Dwyer red-baited opponents of his reduced Board of Ed. budget. Lillian got black shoes at Relda [?] $7.25
April 15 Eugene is making an electric fodder mixer. Sylvia is quite interested in certain comic books - Cinderella, Little Lulu, Nancy. Yesterday's Yankee-Dodger exhibition game was called off on account of snow! 100 Germans mobbed a witness in a Hamburg trial calling her "Jewish pig". Leading lawyers groups started moves to disbar Sacher and Isserman for their part in the C.P. trial.
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.
At that stage of my life, I too loved Little Lulu and Nancy comics.
ReplyDeleteI remember reading Nancy, maybe Little Lulu also.
ReplyDeleteI just discovered the Boehm book mentioned on 4/9 (We Survived) was reprinted recently, so I reserved it at the library. Hey M and D, I'm going to read what you read, 65 years later!
ReplyDeleteVery cool. Now, if you could also buy shoes for $7.25 ...
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