Thursday, April 27, 2017

8/12-8/18/51

Aug 12 Sunday Beat Blazer. Mom and pop took us over to Woodlawn where we ate lunch on a cloudy humid day. Eugene and I picked berries as Lil was resting. Pop came back at 4 and Lil Harry and the kids at 5. Peggy enjoyed herself rolling down a small hill on her side. We had to leave at 6:30 as it finally rained. Pop took us home picking up mama at Gun Hill. At home showered with Sylvia. She takes her doll to bed with her every night.

Aug 13 [paper torn]y Bobby R came around with Sarah and a [paper torn] kids played punchball in the yard.

Aug 14 Lil Madeline and the kids went to Orchard Beach. Lil didn't go in the water.

Aug 15 Beat H. Levitt. Gen Ridgway handed an ultimatum to the "reds" to accept our truce terms or fight. [paper torn] is dead at 88. 

One word, the name of the person who died, is not there, as the paper is torn (the first couple of pages of Book 7 are pretty well torn on the edges). But William Randolph Hearst died that day, at the age of 88, so it's a good bet that "Hearst" was the missing word. 

Aug 16 The A.F.L. bolted the United Labor Policy [unreadable] on the grounds that the C.I.O. had used the Committee to strengthen itself. Federal Judge Weinfeld questioned Atty Genl McGrath's political "means test" for bail for "reds". Artur Schacht is dead at 69. 

Aug 17 The last of the second team Communists was released on bail. Bailers were closely questioned. Ferdinand Smith has voluntarily left the country and [paper torn] deported Alren [?] Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers put on their act before the Senate Comm investigating the Institute of Pacific Relations. Hiss, Barnes, Duggan, [paper torn] were again named as leftists. Teachers have [paper torn] $400 pay boosts. The extra curricular [paper torn]. Louis Jouvet is dead at 63. In the morning [paper torn] played nok-hockey, Eugene scored his first [paper torn]. He won three in a row. Sylvia won one game. [paper torn] 6 o'clock preparatory to taking her shower Sylvia [paper torn] on the hamper and tipped it. She fell and cut her leg on a sharp socket. Lillian got Dr Schmith [?] in the Towers who took four five stitches in the wound which penetrated to the bone. He put penicillin in the wound and prescribed some orally every three hours. I took two hours vacation and came home when Lillian called me. Jerry and Madeline helped Lillian a bit.

Aug 18 Sylvia is resting very well and has no temperature. She is in bed and must not bend her leg. S[paper torn] and the kids dropped in before taking the t[paper torn] back to Syracuse and had lunch here. Stanley [paper torn] Eugene and me to Woodlawn where we picked [paper torn] cans of berries. Betty Ann and Kathy and Norma came with presents for Sylvia. Steve Nelson, Jim Dolsen, A. [paper torn] Bill Albertson, Ben Careathers and Irv Weissman were picked [paper torn] by the F.B.I. Eugene drew "Klondike Gold" - H.V. Korwell [?], "On The Trail of Grant & Lee" - F.T. Hill "Five Weeks in a Balloon" Jules Verne and "World Series" J.R. Tunis. I drew for Sylvia "Betsy's Little Star" and "Eddie and the Fire Engine" - C. Hayward, "Ginnie and Geneva" Cath. Woolley and "Betsy and the [torn paper] Hat" - Mary Winston [?].

Sunday, April 23, 2017

8/11/51

Aug 11 The kids played Nok-hockey at St. James. Sylvia won her first game there, beat another boy and then beat Eugene 8-6 after he led 5-1. He hasn't played so much as she. After lunch we went out to see Thelma and Harold in Bayside on a hot, humid, day. Lil was there also. We saw sweet little Andrea and had supper there. Mother Bloor is dead at 89.

Only one entry in this post, since this is first in Book 8, and Book 7 ended on a Friday.

Deaths in Book 7

Oct. 24  1950 Harry Stimson, Al Jolson
        30 King Gustav, Maurice Costello
Nov 2 GB Shaw
        5 Grover Alexander
        8 Oscar of the Waldorf
      13 Julia Marlowe
 12/23 Walter Damrosch
1/2/51 Karl Renner
  Jan 5 Walter Rautenstrauch
       10 Max Werner
       11 Sinclair Lewis
       29 Von Mannerheim
  Feb 9 Thyssen
       10 Ed Duchin
       20 Andre Gide
 Mar 7 Ivor Novello
       13 Harold Bauer
       23 Mengelberg
April 12 Sam Rosoff
         14 Bevin
         19 Sen. Vandenberg
         29 John Alden Carpenter
May 8 Warner Baxter; "Elbows" McFadden
        9 Leo Diegel
      30 Lincoln Ellsworth; Fanny Brice
June 3 John Erskine
        6 Serge Koussevitzky 
      28 David Warfield 
July 4 Hugh Casey
      15 Arnold Schoenberg 
      23 Admiral Sherman 
      24 Petain
      25 W. J. Flaherty; Kelcey Allen 

Index to Book 7

Oct 24 '50 Al Jolson is dead; Alien "reds" rounded up by F.B.I.
Oct 31 Chinese Communists reported fighting in Korea; Tibet invaded by Red China; Porto Ricans stage independence revolt.
Nov. 2 Two P.R. nationalists attempted to assassinate Truman; Shaw is dead at 94.
Nov. 6 Chinese Reds intervened in Korea.
Nov. 8 Impellitteri, Indep. Dem. elected Mayor
       14 China invaded Tibet
       23 L.I.R.R.wreck causes over seventy deaths
       25 One of the greatest storms in the East causes untold damage
       28 Chinese Communists intervene in the Korean war to turn the tide
Dec. 1 Use of atom bomb is discussed by U.S.
        Sylvia vomits in the early morning
      16 Truman proclaims a national emergency
      19 Russia calls German re-armament "suicide"
      23 Lil's cold cancels trip to Syracuse. China insisted on evacuation of all foreign troops from Korea, U.S. withdrawal from Formosa and membership in the UN.
      25 Historic evacuation of U.N. troops from Hungnam by sea complete
      29 I went to Dr Robbins
      31 Kids stay up on New Years Eve.
Jan 2 '51 Find I have piles at Dr Holzman
     18 China turned down the UN's peace proposal
     24 Lil sees Dr Holzman
     27 "Price and Wage" freeze announced
     31 China branded an "aggressor" in the UN\
Feb 1 Many Nazi death sentences commuted
       7 Penn. R.R. crash kills 84 and injures hundreds
       9 Eight progressive school teachers fired
     10 Sylvia goes to 'Carnegie Hall'
     12 Our apartment is painted
     15 Robinson KO's LaMotta and wins his middleweight title
     19 Another basketball scandal breaks
     27 The Supreme Court limits 'self incrimination' pleas
     28 Dr Satozky says Lillian has bronchitis
Mar 1 22ND amendment becomes law; Eugene makes Junior high and passes 'tenderfoot' test
       13 Senate Crime Investigation is televised
       18 Mom and pop go to Florida
       30 The Rosenbergs and Sobell were found guilty in the atom spy trial
Apr 6 The Rosenbergs received the first death sentence in our history for espionage 
        9 I fall sick of a general virus
      11 Truman fires MacArthur
      12 City Council passes City Sales Tax over strong protests.
      14 Bevin is dead at 71
      26 We get our Bendix washing machine
May 5 Lillian has emergency appendectomy
         8 Willy McGee dies in "chair"
       23 Tide turns against Chinese and No.Koreans
       27 Uncle Isaac and Aunt Rose over for a pleasant day
       31 ...
June 2 Eugene takes goes on first overnight camping trip
         5 The Supreme Court upheld the Smith Act dooming the "11"
         8 ...
         9 Eugene goes to Gail Weiss's birthday party and is only boy there
       13 State inquiry into the "dope" scandal starts
       16 Andrea Siegel born
This entry was inserted between two others, and was not included in the original June 16 diary entry.
       19 The French CP received most votes again in the election
       21 F.B.I. rounds up 17 more Communist leaders
       24 We go to Hyde Park
       26 I see Dr Fishman
July 2 Feller becomes three time no-hitter
        3 Lillian's smear test is negative
        4 Eugene leaves for Ten Mile River
        7 Savitt is Wimbledon winner
        9 First truce talks are held in Kaesong
      13 Anti Negro riot starts in Cicero
      15 We visit Eugene at camp; he decides to stay
      16 Costliest flood ever hits Kansas-Missouri area
      19 Walcott wins heavyweight championship
Aug 1 Lillian discharged by Dr. Rosenfeld
        5 90 West Point Cadets dismissed