Dec 30 Sunday We went over to Sam and Molly for dinner. Molly as usual was in great pain and lay on a pad on the sofa without eating. Evelyn came over to see her mother and the three kids played monopoly.The UN made its last offer to the "Reds" to enact a truce, making several concessions. Film Critic Awards went to "A Streetcar Named Desire" as the best picture of the year. Vivien Leigh was named the best Actress, Arthur Kennedy, the best actor. "Miracle in Milan" won foreign honors. Elia Kazan was best director.
Australians won Davis Cup. 3-2
Vic Seixas beats Mervyn Rose 6-3, 6-4, 9-7.
Frank Sedgman beats Ted Schroeder 6-4, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4.
Sedgman & Ken McGregor beat Schoerder & Tony Trabert 6-2, 9-7, 6-3.
Sedgman beats Seixas 6-4, 6-2, 6-2.
Schroeder beats Rose 6-4, 13-11, 7-5.
Dec 31 Lil and the kids bought a table for the kids room at the Salvation Army for $6. Sylvia also got her first fountain pen. Rep. Buckley cursed and threatened to kill a group who came to protest the Florida killing of NAACP leader Moore. Quill claimed unionization of 80% of the police force.
Jan 1, 1952 The kids stayed up till midnight yesterday. I had to work however. This morning they played "Finance" for several hours. Fourteen of forty passengers and crew of an airliner were found alive after the plane crashed near Salamanca, N.Y.
Jan 2 The wreckage of the plane carrying 28 persons including 9 West Point cadets was found in Phoenix Ariz. All were dead. Illinois trounced Stanford in the Rose Bowl. Check - $236.63
Jan 3 Russia asked the Security Council to take over the Korean truce deadlock. Litvinoff is dead at 75.
Jan 4 Sylvia has come home delighted from school twice this week. Once when her teacher accepted one of the pot holders she is making so steadily with thanks. Again when she was chosen to do a job in school because her hair was neatly combed. J. Davidson is dead at 68.
Jan 5 We went to the Lido to see "The Long Dark Hall" with Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer. Harrison is unjustly accused of killing his secret lover. Also "People Will Talk" with Cary Grant and Jeanne Crain. Grant is an unorthodox doctor. The kids enjoyed both pictures. Federal Judge Hincks disbarred Harry Sacher from Federal practise [sic] and suspended AJ Isserman for two years. The action was for misconduct in the trial of the "11". 500 narcotics peddlers were arrested Friday in nationwide raids.
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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