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12/24 Sunday Lil felt a little better and we went to Lil and Harry's for dinner. Everyone got gifts. Syl got play silverware and Eugene an electric quiz game. When Syl and Susan annoyed Eugene while he was watching television he pushed them down finally pushing Susan into a table on which she banged her head. Mom Pop Taubie Harry & seven month old Peggy Ann, Phil Mike & Sammy also came.

12/25 Christmas Eugene cut out and assembled a Christmas tree from Life's children's section. Sylvia has been making napkin holders. Hungnam's evacuation has been completed.

12/26 We laid the rug today. Eugene played at Bobby's Sylvia went to Betty Ann's with Norma to see the Christmas tree and play there. The UN troops evacuated from Hungnam set up a new defense line in the South. (Scottish Coronation stone stolen from Westminster Abbey.)

The parenthetical note was actually inserted at the bottom of the page, in the middle of this entry, presumably after it was completed. 

12/27 Eugene was put to bed with a mild laryngitis and a slight fever. Sylvia went sleigh riding with Norma. Jerry is slightly better in the hospital after his third operation. Normal life ceased in Seoul as the Chinese advanced. A battled [sic] started 28 miles from the capitol. At the perjury trial of William Remington, his divorced wife testified that he was a Communist in 1938.

12/28 Lillian's chest became very heavy yesterday. She relieved it with a Vicks rubdown. Eugene remained in bed. MacArthur claimed 1,350,000 Chinese are girding for a major offensive. Stanton Griffis was named Ambassador to Spain after a five year rift. License Commissioner McCaffrey's arbitrary ban on "The Miracle" was denounced by the New York Film Critics and many other sources. All maritime workers became subject to a security clearance system. Remington's ex wife testified he gave Russia a top secret formula for making explosives from garbage. "All About Eve" won the N.Y. Film Critics 1950 Award. Gregory Peck & Betty Davis won the Acting Awards. 

12/29 Went to Dr. Robbins on a miserable day. He cleaned my teeth and xrayed them. Lillian feels better. Eugene is better but still in bed. Sylvia has entered the 'fancy tie' [?] contest in Playmate Magazine and is tracing a picture from the magazine. Eugene is very anxious to trace it also and is protesting at her lengthy work. Attacks North of Seoul pushed the UN Army back ten miles. The gov't took control of rubber, banned the hoarding of 55 essential materials and curbed loans. The Army called several hundred thousand doctors and dentists.

12/30 Everyone was better today and Lil took the kids out to Fordham on a sunny day. Eugene got shoes at Tom McCann's [sic] $5.50. Both kids got bedroom slippers at Miles $3 & $2. McCaffrey lifted his ban on "The Miracle" after threat of a court order. The City granted bus fare rises to private lines making the fare 10¢ all over.