Saturday, July 29, 2017

11/25-12/1/51

Nov. 25 Sunday We went to Lil and Harrys to partake of the turkey Harry had gotten from a customer. Present also were mom and pop, Mrs Thaw, Diana, Sol and Sammy & Tobie, Taubee Harry and Peggy. We were kidding around and bought Peggy for 15¢. She decided to go home with us and heaven and earth could not change her mind. She said good bye to daddy and mommy, packed her things - socks, [torn - unreadable], dress, etc. and was off with us. At the party, Susan and Sylvia sold Susan's paintings and paper cups, the proceeds to go to poor children of Israel. 

Nov. 26 Peggy is adorable, good as gold and smart as a whip. She makes up stories, songs and poems. She is also capricious, refusing to take a little toy I bought her. She told me to give it to Sylvia. Mediators in Korea agreed on a truce time. 

Nov. 27 Eisenhower came out for a big army, the a-bomb and the use of German troops. 

Nov. 28 Czech vice premier Slansky was ousted and arrested for "activities against the state". 

Nov. 29 Our troops in Korea stopped shooting except in self defence as truce talks continued. The prosecution wound up its case against 29 cops charged with connivance with gamblers. We had our first mock air raid here with all the trimmings. Lillian read "The President's Lady" - Irving Stone.  

Nov. 30 Eugene drew "Ticktock and Jim, Deputy Sheriffs" Keith Robertson, "Touchdown Twins" Phil Harkins, "Fielder From Nowhere" Jackson Scholz and "The Boys Book of Great Detective Stoires" - Haycraft. Sylvia drew "Freddy and Mr Camphor" WR Brooks, "Marta the Doll" E. Lownsbery, "Lucky Days for Johnny" Irene Smith and "Susan Beware" Mabel L. Hunt. Senator Wherry is dead at 59. 

Dec 1 Eugene went over to the Pelham Parkway section to visit Bobby R. He was met at the bus there. The Korea front remained quiet except for air battles. The courts enjoined the T.W.U. from taking a vote on a bus strike. Prudential agents started their first nationwide strike. Chief of Police Monaghan issued a complete whitewash of Billingsley and his Stork Club in the Josephine Baker discrimination case.

Friday, July 28, 2017

11/18-11/24/51

Nov. 18 Sunday We went out to visit Al Pope. Eugene won a chess game from Al while I lost one. Danny showed card tricks and played "war" and "go fish" with Sylvia. We had a delicatessen suppoer of franks, beans etc. Eugene finished eating last. Danny is a sweet bright boy.

Nov. 19 The "Big Three" will propose an Arms cutting board whose proposals will be presented to a conference of all countries having substantial armaments.

Nov. 20 Eugene has forgotten to do homework several times. He brought home a note to that effect yesterday. Gambler Sal Sollazzo and five basketball players were given jail sentences in the "fix" scandal. Judge Streit lashed out at College "recruiting" subsidizing and lowering of standards for athletes as he sentenced White, Warner, Roth, Schaff and Eddie Gard to six months up to three year sentences. Sollazzo received 8-16 years. Nine other players received suspended sentences. 

Nov. 21 Judge McGuire tossed the government's case against Dr DuBois and the Peace Info. Center out of court before it went to the jury. He stated the charge that it was under foreign control had not been proved. The atrocity total was now down to 365 proved and 6000 possible. City College announced it would drop big time athletics as a result of Judge Streit's denunciation of college commercialization. 

Nov. 22 Thanksgiving We had our delicious turkey dinner with sweet yams, brussell [sic] sprouts, cranberry sauce, stuffing.  

Nov. 23 Lil got herself a pink hat and some shoes. Egypt supported Russia in the UN on banning the Atom bomb first before an arms census. An accident on the N.H. railroad on the Anniversary of last years tragic crash saw 28 passengers injured. It happened in the tunnel under Park Ave and 56 st. In the evening we went to Yankel's apt. for Ida and Max's 40th Anniversary surprise party. Sylvia watched television till 10 o'clock and Eugene until Henry Ko'd Bobby Baker at 11:30 PM. At the party were mom and pop, Lil and Harry, Abe and Blume, Anne Mack and Barbara who did her ventriloquist act, Sandra and Edeen, Mr & Mrs Spivack and his sister, Hymie Feldenkreitz, Sadie, Rachel & Mayer, Harry, Molly and Lilly, Frieda. Freddy and Bobby showed up for a few minutes. We brought a chocolate cake Lil baked and a tray containing a glass swan with a Chinese plant in it. We had champagne, hors d'oeuvres, pickled lox, herring, cole slaw, potato salad, chopped egg salad, cheeses, knishiklach [sic], schnapps, etc. 

Nov. 24 Lil and Molly went to see Evelyn's mother in Bronx hospital and came back here. The Office of Civilian Defense has imposed loyalty oaths not only on its employees but on the press. 

Friday, July 21, 2017

11/11-11/17/51

Nov. 11 Sunday The UN again banned Red China's entrance into the organization. Sigmund Romberg is dead at 64. Eugene and I went to the Boy Scout father and son camping trip. We rode by two cars (six fathers, ten sons and "Buggsy", the leader) to a suburb of Yonkers where we played football, soft ball and ate cooked meals. Eugene passed his cooking test. We had soup hamburgers cocoa and cookies.

I remember the trip, but I don't remember 17 people crowded into two cars!

Nov. 12 We went down to an amusement arcade on 42 st. where the kids played machines: bowling, hockey, baseball, etc. Then we had hot dogs, french fried and drinks, picked up ties and wool and went home. Eugene got a little figure of a cowboy and Sylvia a statue of liberty as prizes at the Arcade. The kids also got packages of ten comic books each at 39¢ a package. They are 10¢ each on the stand. A truce line was finally agreed upon in Korea. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the 1939 dollar is now worth 44¢. A coroners jury in Florida killed cleared the sheriff of guilt in murdering the "Little Scottsboro" prisoner, Sam Shepherd.

Nov. 13 Peron was re-elected in Argentina by a 4-1 margin.

Nov. 14 Two Supreme Court rulings hit a[t] unlawful police acts such as seizure without warrants and evidence obtained from an illegally detained suspect. Rogge turned gov't informer and appeared against The Peace Information Center and Dr DuBois. 

Nov 15 Lillian caught Eugene taking a quarter from her purse. Evidently his allowance (75¢) is too small. His carfare is free and he get [sic] his lunch money in addition. Lil saw Eugene's teachers during open school week. Mrs. Rosen said he showed no imagination. As a whole his work is satisfactory. The US Army charged 6000 American prisoners of war have been slain by Chinese and No.Koreans. Congressmen demanded use of the A-bomb. New York had its first mock atomic air raid involving 300,000 C.D. workers.

Nov. 16 Eugene had an accident in "shop" today, gashing his scalp as he arose after bending down to pick up a pencil. He hit a stake on a work table. Mr. Brandon took him home after the school doctor bandaged him. Lillian then took him to Dr Mersen who took three stitches and gave him a tetanus injection. Eugene's shop teacher Mr. Galinko called up to ask about him and praised his conduct after the incident very highly. Lillian had gone to P.S. 86 in the morning and saw Sylvia shine in her class and play nicely in the  auditorium (Indian Dance in the Firelight). Elmer Rice took a stand against the red scare withdrawing form the Celanese Theater on television because in censored its actors politically along "Red Channels" line. Mary Simkhovitch is dead at 84. 

I actually dropped the pencil under an anvil, used for shaping sheet metal, in sheet metal shop, and hit my head on the anvil. I felt the blow, but just went over to a board to note something, rubbed my head, and found my hand was bloody. I immediately went over to the teacher, whose name, I'm sure, was Mr. Galenka, and, since he was talking with a parent (as Dad noted yesterday, it was open school week), he tried to shoo me away, saying "Can't you see I'm talking to a parent?". I held out my bloody hand, pointed to my head, and he immediately grabbed my hair, and took me to the school doctor. They bandaged me all around the head, so that Mr. Brandon, who was our science teacher, instructed me to call upstairs to Mom so she wouldn't be frightened of my appearance. 
 
Nov. 17 Sylvia drew "Told Under the Green Umbrella" - Intern'l [unreadable] Union, "Make It Yourself" B.W. Carlson, "The Runaway Soldier" Tales of Old Russia by F. Gottschalk, "Boarding School" R. Woody. Eugene drew "The Southpaw from San Fran." - Phil Harkins, "Tommy's Wonderful Airplane" - E. Clymer, "Heroes of Civilization" Cotter and Jaffe and "Pass That Puck" R.T. Flood. 

The book that Sylvia drew shows currently as published by "Literature Committee of the Association for Childhood Education International





















Monday, July 17, 2017

11/4-11/10/51

Nov 4  Sunday We had dinner at Lil's with mom and pop. Lil had a delicious roast beef. We had a lovely time. First a rather torrid political argument with pop & Harry. Then pop showed his hat trick which the kids proceeded to learn. Then Eugene Sylvia and Susan played cards while Peggy played records and sang. Then all the kids recited and sang and we joined in.

Nov 5 Lillian got me a sport jacket in Kleins' boys dept. $9.95 and Sylvia a coat $16.95. Sylvia also got a skirt and blouse in the mail from the Edelsteins & Beckers.

Nov 6 Election Day Leon Jouhaux got the Nobel Peace prize. The C.I.O. opening its 13th session came out against the Smith Act. The Supreme Court ordered Communists' bail cut from $50,000. Lillian and Pauline Pachman were interviewed by the Girl Scouts representative and their references taken prior to their projected organization of a "Brownie" troop. Sylvia went to the Zoo yesterday with her class. Eugene came home with "Como esta usted" which he had finally learned in school. However he failed in one Spanish test. He is a tutor in "math". Eugene, Geoffrey & Bobby R. went to the RKO Fordham to see "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and "Tarzan's Peril" with Lex Barker. They became separated in the crowd and Geoffrey came home alone.

Nov 7 Sylvia got loafers and a hat. Rudolph Halley, television racket buster, running on the Ind. Fus. and Lib. tickets upset Tammanyite Joe Sharkey to win the City Council presidency. Halley - 600,000, Sharkey 500,000, Latham Rep. 435,000 McAvoy A.L.P. 100,000 (approx.)

Nov 8 Truman announced a "Big Three" plan for an inventory of atomic bombs and armaments in all countries followed by disarmament. A Florida Sheriff murdered "Little Scottsboro" case prisoner Sam Shepherd and critically wounded Walter Irvin claiming attempted escape as he was transporting them to the scene of a new trial ordered by the Supreme Court.

Nov 9 The U.S. and Russia attacked each other's disarmament plans. Vishinsky asked for a World Arms parley. Acheson urged Russia to end the Korean war. The 25 day pier strike ended with a special state fact finding board sifting the issues.

Nov 10 The C.I.O. unanimously re-elected Murray and Carey and criticized Eisenhower.

Saturday, July 15, 2017

10/28-11/3/51

Oct 28 Sunday One day last week Eugene went on a trip around Manhattan with his school mates. They saw many sights on a bus ride including Columbus statue, Macy's, The Empire State Bldg, the U.N. headquarters, Chinatown, etc. They visited the Statue of Liberty, Eugene climbing to the top with a friend and saw planes take off and land at LaGuardia Airport. Eugene splurged again making a record for 35¢, getting a luck charm with his name on it buying hotdogs etc. Today Sylvia and I beat Eugene and Lil at Casino then Eugene and I tied for first in Concentration.

Oct 29 Sylvia returned to school today. She got her watch at last. It is for her birthday and costs $12. with the tax. Lillian read "The Bulwark" - Dreiser, "For us the Living "The Way West" - AB Guthrie, "Red Plush" G. McCrone.

Oct 30 Ryan's scabs and cops failed to break the dock strike. Macri was freed in the killing of William Lurye.

Oct 31 Ship officers started to walk out in a new maritime strike. A crisis has hit city hospitals here because of low pay. 

Nov 1 Communists in Korea made their "last" concession giving more ground toward a buffer zone but the UN said it was not satisfactory. Ryan and the wildcat strikers parleyed in the dock strike.

Nov 2 Sup't of Schools Jansen backed down to allow optional wearing of dog tags for school children. 

Nov 3 It rained for the third successive day, turning into the first snow of the season. Kaesong was the stumbling block to an agreement in Korea. Sol Levy, pro basketball referee was arrested for taking $2000 to help "shave" points in several games.  Post Office employees got third $400 increase plus increased sick leave and vacation. 

That's in red because Dad was a postal worker!

Saturday, July 1, 2017

10/21-10/27/51

Oct 21 Sunday We went to see the beautiful "Cyrano de Bergerac" with Jose Ferrer and "Kind Hearts and Coronets" with Alec Guiness. At the Lido. 85¢ and 25¢. The latter was a farce in which Guiness, in line for the title and estate of a dukedom kills off all the prior claimants and is accused of a murder of which he is innocent. Later the kids went to the Simchas Torah celebration at the temple and got only jelly apples. We went up to the temple for a half hour.

Oct 22 Jersey dockers went out on strike. The naming of Gen Mark Clark as the first envoy to the envoy [sic] brought nationwide protests. Groza, Beard and Barnstable joined the procession of basketball stars who had "shaved" points or thrown games. Eugene drew "Adventure Waits" - Collected by Helen Ferris, "The White Cheyenne" - C. Terrett, "Lucky to be a Yankee" Joe DiMaggio and "Famous American Athletes of Today (7th Series)" Jerry Nason. Sylvia drew "The Barkingtons" Robin Palmer, "At the Back of the North Wind" G. MacDonald, "Little Bear and his Friends" and "Peach Blossom" both by E.F. Lattimore.

Mark Clark was named the first ambassador to the Vatican. 

Oct 23 Sylvia complained of a "belly-ache" for the fourth successive day so Lillian took her down to Dr Holzman. He found she had a simple colitis infection due to a virus. ... She must drink skimmed milk and take terramycin capsules. The dock strike had its first violence. A Unionists car was stoned cutting two men with flying glass. The Stork Club was picketed by Walter White, Laura Hobson and other prominent people over the Josephine Baker snub there. 

Oct 24 The N.M.U. came out in support of the dock strikers as the strike widened thru the East Coast. Egyptian police battled revolutionary crowds.  

Oct 25 Sylvia's temp was 99.8 in the morning. She vomited and was in pain. She ate very little and could not be persuaded to take much tea which she dislikes. 15,000 milk drivers sturck for high wages. 

I disliked tea, also, when I was young. Took me a long time in adulthood before I started liking it. 

Oct 26 Sylvia had a bad day yesterday, in pain all day and vomiting three times. Today she was much better. She takes the capsules dissolved in milk only. The Conservative Party with Churchill regained power in the general elections in England. It was a slim margin of about 36 seats. The milk strike ended after one day with a $10 wage rise and milk hikes of 1 to 2¢ to come.   

Oct 27 Pop came over and lost two chess games to Eugene. He has stopped smoking and cut down on coffee. Sylvia felt much better and went to Kathie L's birthday party but couldn't have anything to eat. Joe Louis' boxing career was ended when Rocky Marciano K.O.'d him in the 8th. Mady Christians is dead.