July 29 Sunday We went over to mom's for delicatessen this afternoon. We walked all the way playing a word game. Lil Harry and the kids were there too. Afterwards we took a ride to Douglaston where Lil & Harry apartment is to be built. When we got back pop took us for another ride to White Plains.
Someone, presumably Dad, wrote a question mark over the word "apartment", not sure if that was because they actually moved to a house, which was in Bellerose.
July 30 We went to the Grand to see Mel Ferrer and Miroslava in "The Brave Bulls" an authentic story of bullfighting and "Valentino" with Tony Dexter and Eleanor Parker. At night we taught Sylvia poker and other gambling games to her delight. We played with pennies.
July 31 We went to the Broadway wading pool where Sylvia's build in a bathing suit amazed me. She looked like an Amazon. She weights 81 lbs. Later we went to the library where Sylvia drew "Little Eddie" - C. Haywood, "The Shining Shooter" - Marion Resnick [Renick] and two by E.F. Lattimore "Junior - A Colored Boy of Charleston" and "Three Little Chinese Girls". The House passed a "Control" Bill which is expected to raise prices 10%. Field and Green were given new 6-month terms for refusing to furnish records. Truce talks were snagged again this time by a truce line.
Aug 1 Beat Hotez. Lil went to see Dr Rosenfeld who examined and discharged her. We met at 167th & Cromwell Ave to meet Eugene's bus coming in from Camp. He was in good health and spirits and filthy. He appears to have grown being 59 inches tall. He weights 87 - lost five pounds.
Aug 2 Split with Goldberg. Eugene is an unofficial 2nd Class scout. He went to summer school with Sylvia this morning and played ping-pong. In the afternoon we met mama at the Gun Hill Rd. rendezvous. Later we went to see Lil and the kids and pop. Barmine testified that Russians had called Lattimore and Joe Barnes "ours".
Aug 3 We went to Orchard Beach in Stanley's car but it was a cloudy cool day. We sat on the beach for two hours then went home as it started to rain twice. The kids had a couple of dips. Stanley came up and had coffee with us. In the evening we left the kids and went out to Fordham until 10 o'clock. The gov't opened a new drive against Alien radicals.
Aug 4 Took the kids to Walton in the morning where I gave them tennis lessons. In the afternoon to Woodlawn where I played with Hotez. We picked our first can of berries. Then pop came over and Eugene beat us both in chess.
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.
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