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 [?].