8/5-8/10/51

Aug 5 Sunday Lost to Shakhet [?] at Woodlawn where we had arrived ab't 1 o'clock to have lunch and supper. Played Eugene chess. Pop came over and found us in the woods again picking berries. Pop played Sylvia and myself checkers then took us home again. It was a beautiful weekend with temperature in the seventies. Gen. Ridgway called off peace talks on the grounds that the conference city of Kaesong'[s] neutrality had been violated by the presence of 'red' armed soldiers. Ninety West Point cadets have been dismissed for violating the Academy's honor system. Many football stars were included.

Aug 6 We went down to the 72ND st Translux Theatre to see Bunin's "Alice in Wonderland" in technicolor. On the way home we walked through Central Park finding many interesting places there. The kids picked up scores of Planters Peanut wrappers for which they hope to get drawing books, etc. We brought up chop suey and egg roll for supper. Many policemen have signed up with Quill's T.W.U. which will charter a police local. Communist and "Democratic" Youth are holding World Assemblies in East Berlin and Ithaca respectively. We both read Schulberg's "The Disenchanted".

Aug 7 Lost a game of chess to Eugene. Also played anagrams with the kids. Later Eugene helped Lillian make cookies. Eugene's trunk came from Ten Mile River in bad condition. Sylvia watched "Magic Cottage" and Eugene "Captain Video". They've dropped most of the other programs. Communists admitted they had been wrong in having an armed force in Kaesong.

Aug 8 Eugene drew "Jackie Robinson" - Bill Roeder "Adventure Stories from Boys Life", "From the Earth to the Moon" - Jules Verne and "Magic in a Bottle" - Milt Silverman (Discovery of the drugs). Sylvia drew "The Dutch Twins" - L.F. Perkins, "Little Women", "Here's a Penny" C. Haywood and "Benjie's Hat" M.L. Hunt. While Sylvia and her friend put on a play in the yard I took Eugene to Walton for some tennis. Lillian made a great peach pie which we had a la mode for supper. Cops were ordered to get out of the Union by Monaghan. Five more "Reds" were arrested - R & Phil Frankfeld, Roy Wood, Dot Blumberg and George Meyers.

Aug 9 We spent the afternoon at St James snapping some pictures and the kids in the playground. They played Nok-hockey and went on the see-saw and bars. Lil got Sylvia some sneakers and a sport shirt for me. The C.R.C. finally surrendered its records to the state. The Radio Artists Union voted to ban "leftists" by a 5-1 vote. 

Aug 10 1951 We went to Tibbetts Brook today. Lillian slightly indisposed did not go in. Sylvia frolicked in her tube. Eugene managed to duck his head for the first time and also lay in the water while I held him - after much persuasion. Afterwards we ate on a picnic table but had to rush home before finding a place on the grass, as the weather was threatening. Lillian read "Tevye's Daughters" Rabinowitz.

"Rabinowitz" wrote under the pen name "Sholem Aleichem", and that book was later adapted as the musical "Fiddler on the Roof".
 
Note that there are only 6 days in this post, as Book 7 of the diary ends here. That's presumably why Dad wrote the year in the date of this entry.