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Aug 24 Sunday On an idyllic day, Stan Hotez took us to Woodlawn where I beat him at tennis. We picked a great deal of berries - our first of the season. We all played some ball on the lawn with Sylvia insisting on playing as much as anyone else.

Aug 25 Lost to Berman. The kids played at St James.

Aug 26 Lillian's birthday I gave Lillian a small radio and the kids and I have her a bouquet of gladioli. Eisenhower speaking at the Legion's convention in Madison Square Garden that the nation faced its greatest peril ever from Russia. He stated our goal must be to free the enslaved people behind the "Iron Curtain". The Legion called for the investigation of the A.C.L.U. as a "Red Front".

The following box score was taped in here, and the reason noted. 

Aug 27 Herbie took Pauline, Marline, Arnold, Lil and the kids to Tibbetts. They took the bus back. Muriel Draper is dead at 65. Haywood Patterson is dead at 40. 

Aug 28 Eugene drew books from the Adults branch for the first time - "Highroad to Adventure" - H. Pease, "Soul of the Sea" - L. Sobolev, "A Treasury of Sports Humor" - D. Stanley and "The Red Sox" - Al Hirshberg. Sylvia drew "Peachtree Island" M. Lawrence, "A Baker's Dozen" selected by M.G. Davis, "The Tune is in the Tree" M.H. Lovelace and "The Red Fairy Book" - Lang. Stevenson, speaking before the Legion attacked "McCarthyism", racial bigots, veterans lobby, false patriotism. 

Aug 29 Split with Berman. Lil got herself some black shoes at Miles $2.99. We both read "Janos; story of a doctor" by John Plesch. An absorbing Autobiography by a Hungarian doctor and consort of the greatest figures in art, music, politics, science including Hauptmann, Einstein, Kreisler, etc.

Aug 30 Powell reversed himself and pledged support to the Democrats after civil rights pledges. North Korean capital Pyongyang was blasted in the biggest raid of the war.