Aug 31 Sunday We spent a cloudy day indoors with radio, television, cross word puzzles etc. Played Eugene a chess game. He played a lot in camp and was winning easily but got careless towards the end. Sylvia has been reading the diaries lately.
Sept 1 Labor Day An all day rain and storm kept us in and we missed the Forest Hills matches. The kids resumed thier piano practicing, doing well. We took in chow mein at night. Arky Vaughn [sic] and Heraldo Weiss are dead at 40 and 35 respectively.
Sept 2 Eugene played punchball with his friend Larry R. who had called him up yesterday on coming home from the country. In the afternoon he played with Bobby R. who was here. Sylvia played nok hockey. Mom and pop stopped over here on the way from their month vacation upstate and had lunch. They had a wonderful time. Stevenson in Labor Day speeches, called for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Law and said he would confer with Russia for the sake of peace.
Sept 3 Eugene played with Larry and Bobby again with Sylvia in the park. State Sen Elmer Quinn is dead at 57. I read "Man of the World" - Don H. Clarke's Autobiography. Lillian read "Fortress in the Rice" Ben. Appel. The T.U.C voted by 5-1 to sustain the governments' re-armament program against the Bevanites charge that it would impoverish the country.
Sept 4 The kids played in the park. The State Crime Commission subpoenaed the bank books of 300 politicians, labor leaders, business men and hoodlums in a probe of bribery by racketeers. Gilbert Gabriel is dead at 62.
Sept 5 Barry Gray was attacked and beaten by two hoodlums. Count Sforza is dead at 79. Susan was stricken with a mild form of Polio.
Susan recovered completely.
Sept 6 Eugene and Larry R went to the Polo Grounds to see the crucial Giants-Dodgers double header as the Giants are staring to creep up again. Eugene refused to go to the bleachers as he cannot see from there. The Court of Appeals upheld Bridges' perjury sentence and loss of citizenship. It will be appealed to the Supreme Court. Gertrude Lawrence is dead at 51.
The box scores, and my story about the game, will be in the next post. Bleacher tickets were cheaper, but the Polo Grounds bleachers were very far away from home plate.
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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