10/19-10/25/52

Oct 19 Sunday We went over to Molly's for a couple of hours. We saw their new television set. Most of her sisters were there for dinner.

Oct 20 Sylvia stayed home from school with a stuffed nose and belly-ache. She had a temp. Soft coal miners began walking out when the W.S.B. voided the recently signed pay increase. W.E. Dodd, Jr. is dead at 47. Corliss Lamont was prevented from speaking in Syracuse by the Legion and press.

Oct 21 Sylvia still home today and I stayed out also. The Subversive Activities Control Board ruled that C.P. members must register. The decision will be fought in the courts.

Oct 22 Lil took Sylvia to Dr Holzman this morning as she went to school but still felt ill. ...  Trygve Lie fired a group of UN Aides, most of whom had refused to answer questions before the McCarran Comm.

Oct 23 Sylvia had a miserable night. She was nauseous and in pain ... Dr Holzman over the phone told Lil to stop the terramycin and give her oil of peppermint for her nausea. He said ... She has eaten practically nothing for several days. A specific for polio prevention has been announced as in its early stages. Att'y Gen'l McGranery moved to deport 18 Communist leaders.

Oct 24 Dr Holzman came over. He prescribed nothing but farina, jello and cracked ice for Sylvia. ... She has eaten virtually nothing all week. Ed Grammer was found guilty of killing his wife and wrecking her car to make it look like an accident. He was infatuated with a UN secretary and planned to marry her. He faces life imprisonment or the gallows. Whit Chambers accused UN aide  David Zablodowsky of being an underground communist functionary before the McCarran Comm. He also named others. Two more teachers Seltzer and Glucksman were fired without trial. At the UN South Korea was seated 54-5. North Korea was barred 38-11 with eight abstentions. Dr Selman Waksman won the Nobel Prize in medicine for his discovery of streptomycin. Bonn banned the neo Nazi Socialist Reich party. Bevanites were ordered to disband or be The American Basketball League disbanded after voting to bar the ex-point shavers - Beard, Groza, Spivey, White etc.

Oct 25 We took Sylvia to Dr Holzman as she was no better. ...He advised hospitalization for her to take tests and xrays. .... She has lost nine pounds this week weighing 80 lbs. She was admitted to Lebanon at 12:30 PM. She didn't take it too badly was a little weepy and whiney. Rep Sen. Morse quit his party to campaign for Stevenson. Susan Peters is dead at 31.

10/12-10/18/52

Oct 12 The kids went to Sunday School. In the afternoon Eugene and I saw the Football Giants beat the Cleveland Browns while Lil and Sylvia went to St James. Then we joined them and had a catch.

Dad left out noting that Oct 12th was Sunday. 

Oct 13 The family went with mom and pop to Anne's where Tante and Uncle were also present. Barbara did her ventriloquism. She also takes painting lessons.

Oct 14 Sylvia keeps asking for potato blintzes but eats the cheese also. The Supreme Court refused to review the Rosenberg "atom" case. Edwin Berry Bergum of N.Y.U. has been suspended for refusing to say whether he was a C.P. member. Four others - Dr Henrietta Friedman, Dr Sarah Riedman, Dr Melba Philips and Prof. Clarence Hiskey also refused. Five U.N. staff employees refused to answer McCarran Comm. questions.

Oct 15 Six U.N. staff members challenged the motives behind the McCarran probers and refused to answer questions. "Ike" revealed his income over the last ten years as $888,303. Eugene drew "The Dodgers and Me" - Durocher, "Codes and Secret Writing" HS Zim, Esquire's 2ND Sports Reader, "A Treasure Chest of Sports Stories" - Max Herzberg, "Big Red" Jim Kjelgaard.

Oct 16 The UN Gen'l Assembly opened with Lester Pearson - Canada elected President. Mexican delegate Nervo charged the UN had not explored all paths to peace in Korea. Jim Carter regained his Lightweight title by outpointing Lauro Salas in 15 rounds.

Oct 17 The U.S. Court of Appeals upset the loyalty discharges of legless veteran James Kutcher from his V.A. job. It ruled membership in an organization is not sufficient cause for dismissal. Disloyalty must be proved. Iran is planning a break with Britain over the oil.

Oct 18 We went by buses to Lil's as pop had to work. The trip took us 2 1/2 hours. We found Susan as good as new and Peggy as unpredictable as ever. The kids played "go fish". Harry took us home. Poland offered a "peace package" at the U.N. including immediate cessation of fighting in Korea, repatriation of all prisoners, withdrawal of all foreign troops from Korea, a 1/3 cut in armies, prohibition of atomic weapons.

10/5-10/11/52

Oct 5 Sunday Sylvia and Norma went to the Playground. After the ballgame we went out to get them. Eugene and I had a catch.

Oct 6 Stalin appeared at the C.P. congress in Moscow.

Oct 7 Profs. Slochower, Shlakman and Reiss were fired in haste by the Board of Ed. Lillian read "The Hunter" - James Aldridge.

Oct 8 Stevenson pledged "to" smash the Communist conspiracy. Sam Goode repaired the couple of keys which were not in tune. Now Eugene can practice which he had refused to do. The kids went to Dr Robbins. Eugene had no cavities, Sylvia one. Total cost including Xrays and cleanings for them - $15. However, Eugene has a mal-occlusion and needs straightening. 

Box scores were taped in here, covering one full page and part of a second, with the following info:

1952 World Series

Yanks win sensational series 4-3 for fourth consecutive year.
Home Runs: Snyder 4. Mize 3.
No hits in series Hodges

              Batting Title
       A.L.                        N.L.
Fain .327                 Musial .336
               Rookie of Year
H. Byrd                    J. Black
                   M.V.P.
B. Shantz                H. Sauer
A.P. All Star team: Fain, Robinson, Rizzuto, Rosen, Sauer, Mantle, Musial, Berra, Roberts, Shantz
All Star Rookie team: Gernert, Lepcio, Groat, Matthews, Dyck, Greengrass, Rhodes, Courtney, White, Black, Wilhelm

Oct 9 Sylvia got books, including a cross world [sic] puzzle book, blouse and flowers from us, the jacket from mom and pop, dungarees from Norma G., Skirt and blouse from Anne & Tante Blume, a dress from Lil and Harry.
Lil gave a little party for her at the Brownie meeting today. A train wreck in England saw about 100 killed and 200 injured. The McCarran Comm. interrupted Cyril Graze's hearing to serve him a subpoena for further questioning. Mom and pop came over in the evening. Sylvia blew out the candles on her birthday cake. Dr Louis T. Wright is dead at 61.

Not sure why Dad started a new paragraph in the middle of this entry. 

Oct 10 Mrs Rosen told Eugene she liked his composition second best (on the U.N.) but she picked two others for the competition. The savage battle for White Horse Hill continued in the second week in Korea. It has changed hands numerous times.

Oct 11 We went to the Lido to see "Carrie" with Lawrence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins and Eddy Albert. Also "Don't Bother to Knock" with Richard Widmark, Jeanne Cagney and Marilyn Monroe. More teachers are being quizzed by the Board of Ed. Sylvia & Lil went to the Synagogue for the Simchas Torah party.

9/28-10/4/52

Sept 28 Sunday Mom and pop and Sam and Molly came over for dinner. The kids played - Sylvia "The Voice of the Heart"- Van Gael and Eugene "Oriental Dance" without music. We had a nice evening of conversation and then Eddy Cantor on television. George Santayana is dead at 88.  

Sept 29 We went over to Sam & Molly for supper then I went on to work. D.K. Niles is dead at 62. One of the kids favorite pastimes is to make each other laugh in turn. At Molly's Milton Shirley and Seth and Mrs Perl also came. Seth is much improved and quite cute. The kids amused themselves by playing solitaire.

Sept 30 Stevenson called for a grim battle against Communism at home and abroad. Eugene failed a Spanish exam.

I remember being devastated by that failure. 

Oct 1 British Labor Party elections saw Bevanites oust six top moderate officials. Morrison and Dalton were among the victims. The F.B.I. arrested Earl [and] Raissa Browder on charges of perjury in Mrs. Browder's 1949 naturalization petition. Viscount Astor is dead at 73.

Oct 2 45 Communist prisoners were killed and over a hundred injured at Kojo prison camp when the Chinese prisoners celebrated the Anniversary of the revolution in the face of a ban. Six teachers were discharged for refusing to answer questions about their Communist affiliation.

Oct 3 England exploded its first atom-bomb. Japanese elections saw Yoshida retain power. The Communists lost all their seats.

Oct 4 Sylvia drew "Mary Poppins" - P.L. Travers, "Railroad Cowboy" C. Wooley [sic], "The Jennifer Wish" E.Y. Smith and "The Princess and the Goblin" G. MacDonald. Eugene drew "Jungle Journey" J.B.M. Waldeck, "True Tales of Buried Treasure" E.R. Snow, "The Story of the World Series" F. Lieb, "Best Sports Stories" Marsh & Ehre. Lil gave Sylvia a permanent. She also got the kids fall jackets in Alexanders Sylvia's $7. is mom's present for her birthday. Eugene's is $6. Andres Requena, anti-Trujillo editor of a newspaper here was assassinated in a Madison st. hallway. Three City professors, Vera Shlakman, Bernard Reiss and Harry Slochower were suspended without pay for refusing to answer questions on their political affiliations. Russia asked the recall of U.S. Ambassador George Kennan for his "slanderous attacks on the Soviet Union". He had compared the situation of Americans in Moscow with that of Berlin in 1942. Russia's 19th Congress of the C.P. - the first since 1939 opened by stressing Stalin's declaration just released. This said war was more likely between Capitalist powers than between East and West. The Asian and Pacific Peace Conference opened in Peking with with [sic] an offer of a settlement of the Korean War through unconditional repatriation of all prisoners.

9/21-9/27/52

Sept 21 Sunday Took a walk with Eugene. Sylvia did not want to go this morning. For dinner we had the rest of the turkey. A mine strike was averted as miners got a $1.90 raise per day. In the afternoon we all played charades and some miniature nok-hockey.

Sept 22 The Gov't has moved to bar Charles Chaplin from re-entering this country after his six month vacation abroad.

Sept 23 Teachers Union officers and members were quizzed in secret by McCarran's Comm. Two escaped bandits were killed and a third captured as one detective was killed and another is dying in a gun battle in a W. 140 st apartment.

Sept 24 Senator Nixon left it to the Rep. Nat'l Comm. as to whether he should remain V.P. candidate after speaking on a Nation-wide T.V. hook-up. He has admitted accepting expense money from wealthy Californians. The A.F.L. for the first time in its 71 year history officially supported a presidential candidate when it endorsed Stevenson. Judge Dimock freed two of the fifteen Communist defendants - Begun and Gerson for lack of sufficient evidence. Sam Levenson, Philip Loeb, Judy Holliday and Burl Ives were quizzed by the McCarran Comm. All disavowed Communism. Rocky Marciano K.O'd Heavyweight champ Joe Walcott in the 13th round to win the title. He was down in the 1st round. H.T. Webster and Ian Hay are dead.

Sept 25 College teachers were quizzed by the McCarron Comm. including Frederick Ewen, Bernard Reiss, Isidore Rubin, Bernhard J Stern, Harry Slochower. Ewen resigned his Bklyn College post.

Sept 26 Sylvia played nok-hockey at St James all afternoon. Eugene played monopoly with Bobby R. then we went to the library where he drew "The Black Tanker" - H. Pease, "Today's Science and You" - Lynn Poole, "Teen Age Outdoor Stories" - Frank Owen and "The Chicago Bears" Frank [see below] Roberts. Now Stevenson had a political fund which he used to supplement salaries of certain state employees. The first unfriendly witness among the College teachers, Harry Albaum admitted C.P. membership and disillusionment many years ago. Gene Weltfish refused to answer "the question". A spectator at the hearing, Constantine Radzie was subpoenaed and quizzed about his Communist and Soviet connections. For the first time ever three men were indicted for taking bribes to get supervisory jobs for postal workers. Four men who admitted paying money were named.

"The Chicago Bears" was written by Howard Roberts, but dad had just noted a book by Frank Owen, so ...

Sept 27 Lillian has a cold which is blooming now. Irwin Steingut is dead at 58.

9/14-9/20/52

Sept 14 Sunday Yesterdays temp was a record breaking 93°. Today it was cloudy and cooler and we stayed in. Sylvia made a miniature nok-hockey game of cardboard. Eugene made one of wood. In the evening we played a long chess game.

Sept 15 Lillian had her first girl scouts meeting.

Sept 16 Pearl Bailey was beaten up in a N.J. night club. The assailants, Anti-Negro, escaped.

The following picture was taped in in the middle of these last two entries; labeled "Woodlawn Rock" at the top (where the picture was taken) and "Eugene and Sylvia in Sept '52" at the bottom. 

Sept 17 Sylvia's teacher praised her drawing highly and hung one picture up. She is in the top level in spelling.

Sept 18 A wave of assaults on women has resulted in additional police prowl cars and disguised police women being put on the look-out. 18 more Communists were arrested by the F.B.I. under the Smith Sedition Act.

Sept 19 Sylvia likes Herbert. When I asked her if he invited her to the Copacabana she said she doesn't like him that much. Eugene got 98% in math and 90 in Spanish. 200 school teachers picketed the Board of Ed. in protest over the coming trial of accused Communists. Frances Alda is dead at 69.

Sept 20 Rosh Hashonah Took the kids for a walk and we explored Webb Ave from Kingsbridge to Fordham Rds and back on Sedgwick Ave. We saw new wings on the Veterans Hospital. Sylvia admired the beautiful Fordham Hill project. In the afternoon Eugene watched football and baseball. We went down, left Sylvia at the playground and walked in Fordham. A scandal has arisen over the expose that V.P. candidate Nixon has a private expense fund provided by business men supporters. Lillian read "The Man With one [sic] Talent" J.E. Greene. We both read Charlotte Haldane's "Truth Will Out".