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July 8 Sunday Beat Buhr at Woodlawn. We spent most of the day there with the Buhrs and Zitos. The kids had a lot of fun with a large beach ball. We all went to the spring which was still flowing, but slowly. We went by the cab and returned home in Stan Hotez' car.

July 9 Beat Hotez. We got two more cards from Eugene saying he hates camp and could we please come up as soon as humanly possible and take him home. Sylvia went to summer school today. The first truce talk at Kaesong was called a 100% success.

July 10 Sylvia goes to summer school from about 9:30 to 12N and 1 to 5 P.M. She won in table hockey. Iran turned down Truman's appeal to settle the oil dispute and withdraw from the World Court. Dashiell Hammett and W.A. Hunton received six month sentences for refusing to name bail fund contributors. Harry Heilmann is dead at 56. New police Commissioner Monaghan took office.

July 11 Beat Auerbach. The North Korean truce delegation proposed a 12 1/2 mile buffer zone at the 38th parallel and an immediate cease-fire. Also a continued divided North Korea. The gov't asked for an increase in the bail of the 15 arrested Communists to $876,000. Randy Turpin 23 years old British Negro scored an amazing upset over Ray Robinson in 15 round to win his Middleweight title. It was Robinson's second loss in 11 years. Robinson is on a European tour. The N.L. beat the A.L. 8-3. Kiner, Elliott, Musial and Hodges homered for the N.L.Wertz & Kell for the A.L. Roberts, Maglie, Newcombe and Blackwell pitched for the N.L. Garver, Lopat, Hutchinson, Parnell and Lemon for the A.L. Lil had her cauterization done at Dr Rosenfeld's. 

July 12 We got better news from Eugene. He likes camp a little better but still wants to go home after the first period. The 15 "Reds" had their bail revoked and were sent to jail in a move to increase their bail and ban the C.R.C. bail fund. Truce talks were broken off as the "Reds" barred Allied newsmen at Kaesong. Lillian read "Tomorrow Will be Better" - Betty Smith. 

July 13 Beat Hotez. The Board of Ed. deferred action on a resolution by Board member Timone to bar the use of school buildings by "Leftists" Speakers for both sides were heard. Police stood by as a mob wrecked the home of a Negro moving into a white neighborhood in Chicago. Gen Ridgway demanded that all armed personnel withdraw from Kaesong. Judge Learned Hand restored bail for the '15' rebuking Judges Saypol and Ryan for the revocation. 

July 14 Sylvia drew "Peter and Penny" C. Haywood, "Deborah's White Winter: - E.F. Lattimore, "Eddie and the Fire Engine" - C. Haywood and "Henry Huggins" Beverly Cleary. The US is seeking a buffer zone North of the 38th parallel. National Guardsmen set up barricades in Cicero to prevent any more mob attacks on the apartment house in which a Negro had moved. 17 have been hospitalized in riots of several thousand whites against the encroachment of "white" territory.  

Dad pasted in this box score here without comment, but the reason was clear.