7/13-7/19/52

July 13 Sunday Mom and pop took us out to Jones Beach. We ate on the beach. The kids and I went in twice but mom, pop & Lil did not.

July 14 Sylvia went to Playground School today at P.S. 86. Eugene went to St James in the morning. The heat broke a July 14 record with 93°

July 15 We went to Tibbetts Brook today. We were all in the water for about an hour enjoying the relief from the heat. We picknicked on the grounds and were home to see the "Broadway Theatre" play "The Night of Jan. 16" Walt Dropo tied the A.L. record of 12 consecutive hits made by Pinky Higgins - 1938,

July 16 Sylvia went to playground school in the morning while Eugene went to St James. In the afternoon Eugene Bobby R. and I watched the Yankee Indian double header. The heat remained in the nineties. The U.S. discontinued its Russian magazine "Amerika" and banned all Russian journals here.

July 17 We went down to the Criterion (95¢ and 80¢) to see Walt Disney's "Robin Hood" in technicolor, "The Little House" and "Water Birds". We enjoyed the show very much. Sylvia liked "The Little House" best. Afterwards we went to Macy's to get a birthday present for Peggy and also some knick-knacks. Andy Seminick broke the NL record for errors made by a catcher in one inning - 3. We both read "The Troubled Air" - Irwin Shaw, about the black list on radio. Also Ethel Waters "Her Eye is on the Sparrow". 

Dad crossed out the entry because the next day, the official scorer changed a Seminick throwing error to an error on the second baseman. 

July 18 Sylvia went to Summer school in the afternoon with Arline D. Liberal labor and Negro groups demanded a forthright civil rights plank as the Democratic convention opened. The Olympic Committee accepted both Nationalist and Red China and the former withdrew as the International Olympics opened at Helsinki opened [sic] with Russia competing for the first time.  

July 19 Last night I lost a chess game to Eugene. Then Lillian won the family jacks tournament with Sylvia second. Eugene and I went to the Stadium to see the Yanks beat the White Sox 4-2. Eugene kept the box score and compiled all the statistics at home (We got the box seats from Harry). Lil and Sylvia went to the Paradise to see "The Girl in White" with June Allyson as Emily Dunning Barringer and "The Wild North" - Stewart Granger and Cyd Charisse. A "mad" scientist Bayard Peakes was picked up as the confessed killer of innocent Eileen Fohey to get publicity for his electronic and longevity theories and two teen agers were apprehended for the senseless killing of Rabbi London on a dare!