1/4-1/10/53

Jan 4 Sunday Eugene vomited after lunch today, but seemed all right afterwards. His temp was 96.5°. He has been blowing his nose excessively lately. We had planned to visit Sam and Molly, but only Lil and Sylvia went. The police smashed two youth gangs who had pulled many robberies lately.

Jan 5 Lillian took Mollie to the doctor and then got six containers of milk for 33¢ in Mosholu in a price war. Milk is now 22¢. Marty was expelled finally from the C.P.

Jan 6 Lillian went down to Kleins to return Eugene's suit which was too small.

Jan 7 Lillian went to Dr Robbins about a tooth complaint but he found nothing wrong. René Mayer was voted Premier of France. Dave Weintraub UN aide, resigned his post under fire but insisted on his innocence of "disloyalty" charges.

Jan 8 Joe Curran quit as a mediator in the bus strike as peace looked far away. Another UN aide, Dave Zablodowsky resigned under fire. Truman warned that Stalin would that war would mean total ruin due to the new Atom and hydrogen bombs. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt is dead at 83 and Mrs. Osa Johnson at 58.

Jan 9 Seven N.Y. school teachers were ousted by the Board of Ed. at a stormy meeting, for refusing to talk about their "Red" ties.

Jan  10 Lillian went to Dr Holzman with the kids. She got an excellent report on herself and on Eugene. Eugene gained weight again and will take only two pills a week. At Fordham Eugene got a suit at Alexanders as the Klein's suit had been too small ($25). Sylvia, Lil and Eugene got shoes and Eugene got bed room slippers and rubbers - all at Milles Miles. ($21.50). Bloody riots continued into the third day in Karachi. They started as a student protest against high fees. Asian socialists in convention refused to affiliate with the Socialist Intern'l but voted close cooperation with it. 

12/28/52-1/3/53

Dec 28 Sunday The Waterfront Priest "told of threats that bodies would be floating in the river" as a result of the testimony on dock racketeering before the State Crime Commission.

Dec 29 Yugoslavia, Greece and Turkey will form a mutual defense alliance.

National Football League: Detroit Lions 17, Cleveland Browns 7 

Davis Cup. Sedgman d Seixas 6-3, 6-4, 6-3.
McGregor d Trabert 11-9, 6-4, 6-1  Sedgman & McGregor d Seixas and Trabert 6-3, 6-4, 6-1, [this third set was actually 1-6] 6-3. Sedgman d Trabert 7-5, 6-4, 10-8.  Seixas d McGregor 6-3, 8-6, 6-8, 6-3.
Rose Bowl U.S.C. d. Wisconsin 7-0. 

N.Y. Film Critics Awards: Best Picture "High Noon", Best Director - Fred Zinnemann, Best Male Actor - Ralph Richardson, Best Female - Shirley Booth, Best Foreign Picture "Forbidden Games" 

Dec 30 Lil Sylvia and the "brownies" went to see "The Golden Goose" at the 92nd st. Y.M.H.A. Eugene played football with Larry then they went to the "Garden" to see a triple header but could only see two games as they had to be home by 10 P.M. First Atomic spy Alan Nunn May was freed in England after serving seven years. Mayor Kenny of J.C. refused to testify before the N.J. Law Enforcement Council.

Dec 31 After work I joined the New Years Eve party at Madeline's to celebrate their anniversary. There were five other couples. We gave them some shower curtains. Eugene Norma and Sylvia celebrated here. They stayed up till 1:30 AM seeing "I Married a Witch" Tony DeSpirito brought home his 389th winner of the year to break the 1906 record by one. Fletcher Henderson is dead at 55.

The box score for yesterday's triple header was pasted in here, with the note that "The boys had to miss the Utah-Manhattan Game".

Jan 1, 1953 We watched television all day. Bus drivers went out on strike on eight privately owned companies in N.Y.s biggest bus strike. Goal is 40 hr. week. 

Jan 2 We went to Mike & Evelyn for dinner. First we stopped at Kleins, getting Eugene his suit - $20. two ties - 39¢ each, some things for Evelyn & Isabel. The girls played games and with the doll and carriage dressing up as mothers hats, veils and all. Eugene read mostly. When we came home he went for his instructions and stayed for the services at the Rabbi's request. The President's Commission on Immigration recommended revision of the McCarran Act as an "arrogant, brazen instrument of discrimination". A State Dep't memo accused 38 U.S. Employees of the UN, including 11 present employees, of Communist affiliations. A Chilean explosion resulted in 40 killed and hundreds hurt. Millicent Rogers is dead at 52 and Charles Hopkins at 69.

Jan 3 Sylvia drew "Ginny & Geneva" - Wooley - again, "The Saturday's" E. Enright "The Pink Maple House" C.N. Govan, "Binnie Latches On" Marie McSwigan. Eugene drew "The Omnibus of Sports" G. Rice and H. Powel, "Red Grange" G. Schoor, "The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchhausen" "The Mysterious Sailor" Felix Riesenberg Jr. "The Story of Football" Lamont Buchanan. Played Eugene a chess game in which he turned a lost game into a stale-mate as is his favorite trick. Judge Kaufman refused to commute the Rosenberg's death sentence. High schools will open at 10 AM Monday due to the bus strike. Rutgers dismissed Profs. Finley and Heimlich for refusing to answer questions as to Communist affiliation.

I check all the book titles and authors. Regarding the Red Grange biography, I found dozens of sports biographies and other sports books by Gene Schoor, but not one about Red Grange. 

12/21-12/27/52

Dec 21 Sunday An Air Force transport with 115 soldiers going home on Christmas leave crashed with over 80 killed. 8 hours -- all O.,T. The kids performed in their Chanukah plays as usual in the temple. 8 hrs. O.T.

Dec 22 Russian charges that the killing of P.O.W.s by the U.S. on Pongam Island was murder was [sic] rejected as the U.N. Assembly recessed for Christmas. Pier boss Mike Clemente was indicted on an extortion charge as an outgrowth of the State Crime Commission hearings. 716 C.R.C. demonstrators traveled to SingSing to protest the Rosenberg's death sentence for espionage. Patterson, Karin Morley, Mrs. McGhee and Fast spoke. 4 hrs. O.T. We both read "One Little Boy" Dorothy Baruch and "The Vicious Circle" Margaret Case Harriman.

Dec 23 Lillian got an oilcloth rug for our room $11. Also wall lamps for the kids - $3. each. Mother had given us $20 for our anniversary. Also $10 for the dress and pants we got the kids. 1 hr. O.T. Lillian read "Festival" J.B. Priestley.

Dec 24 269 crew members of the French liner Liberté were barred from shore leave here under the McCarran Act. They must obtain security clearance first. 26 passengers on the wrecked French vessel Champollion died after jumping overboard to swim to safety. All others were finally rescued. French Premier Pinay resigned in a financial dispute.

Dec 25 Lil and Harry went to a wedding so mom and pop brought the kids over here where we had dinner of turkey, ice box cake. Mama brought apple pies. The kids played games with Eugene annoying them and playing with them alternately. Peggy asked Lil to warm her milk as last time she got a belly-ache. The kids got games and presents. Later Eugene and I went to the Garden to see the Knicks take over the N.B.A. Eastern half lead, beating the Boston Celtics 97-84. Stalin, in an answer to questions by "Times" correspondent James Reston implied he would talk to Eisenhower on world tensions. Rep. Cox of Georgia is dead at 72.

I  know I remember going to the Garden that night, not because I remember the Celtics game, but because I remember the preliminary game, specifically because Bud Palmer, who I only knew as a Knicks broadcaster, played in the game, and Dad told me that he used to play for the Knicks. If you read who they played (https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/12/26/84382856.pdf), you would think that I would remember the Texas Cow Girls, but I was only 12 years old. 

Dec 26 Bernardino Molinari is dead at 42 and Dinty Moore at 83. The kids went to the library by themselves. Sylvia drew "Lively Victoria" by E.F. Lattimore, "The Pioneer Twins" Lucy F. Perkins, "Sally Tait" F.C. Sayers, "Ginny & Custard" F.C. Sayers, Eugene drew "Low and Inside" true baseball anecdotes by Ira L & H Allen Smith, "Split Seconds" J. Scholz, "Backboard Magic" H.M. Brier, "Famous Dog Stories" Page Cooper, "Trusty" Story of a police horse Jack Bechdolt.

The box score of the game we went to the day before was taped in here, with the note "The game we saw"

Dec 27 I bought a suit at Robert Halls - Navy Blue, for $43, Then we went to mother's where I picked up two of pop's old suits (Pop took a chess game from Eugene   Christmas)

I don't know whether Dad was implying that I allowed my grandfather to win, or that it was just so unusual.

12/14-12/20/52

Dec 14 Sunday New York held its biggest air raid drill Saturday morning at 8:30 AM. 400,000 volunteers supervised the safety precautions after a theoretical atom bomb fell at Boston Road and Southern Blvd.
Silvia wrote here "This is a paper doll of mine and a picture that I drew. Sylvia E.

Lillian finished Sylvia's beautiful coral sweater blouse. Yesterday Sylvia drew "A-going to the Westward" - Lois Lenski "The Jennifer Gift" - E.Y. Smith, "The Poplar Street Park" - F.F. Wright, "Party for Suzanne" - C.P. Edwards. Eugene drew "The N.Y. Giants" - Frank Graham, "Scrubs on Skates" - Scott Young, "Teen-Age Winter Sport Stories" - Frank Owen, "The Bright Design" K.B. Shippen - (Electrical Energy).

Dec 15 Hoboken hiring boss Tony De Vincenzo testified before the S.E.C. that Union leaders Ed Flores and Public Safety Commissioner Mike Borelli were linked with dock racketeers. 82 No Korean POW's were killed and 120 wounded in the worst prison camp riot. Prisoners defied authorites orders. Comp time for Saturday

Dec 16 Sylvia attended her Girl Scout Intermediate groups first meeting which she had anticipated for so long. John Carter Vincent, Minister to Tangiers was suspended by the State Dept after a finding of reasonable doubt as to his loyalty by the "Loyalty Review Board". J.P. Davies was cleared of charges simultaneously. 4 hrs. O.T. Comp time for Saturday.

Dec 17 Owen Lattimore was indicted on seven counts of perjury by a Federal grand jury charging he had lied on his Communist affiliations. Mayor JV Kenny of Jersey City was linked with dock rackets at the State Crime Commission investigations. 4 hrs. O.T.

Dec 18 Lillian and the "Brownies" had the investiture for three new children who replaced the "fly-ups". There was organ playing, singing and two gifts for Lillian. Tito broke off with the Vatican for "unfriendliness" - as Stepinac's elevation to 'Cardinal'. 4 hrs. O.T.

Dec 19 Evidence incriminating Albert Anastasia as one of Pete Panto's killers was revealed to have been in the possession of O'Dwyer's office by the State Crime Commission. No action had been taken. Liberals at the Vienna Peace Congress attacked Russian and satellite policies. Archie Moore won the L.H. Championship of the World by defeating Joe Maxim in 15 rounds. 4 hrs. O.T.

Dec 20 Mom and pop over. Racketeer boss Ed Florio got 18 months imprisonment for perjury. Albert Anastasia of Murder Inc. refused to testify before the S.C.C. 18 month old Siamese twins, Roger and Rodney Brodie became the first ever to survive a head to head severance. The N.Y.S. Athletic Commission reversed the decision of the judges and referee in the Billy Graham - Joe Giradello bout giving the former the victory It was an unprecedented act in N.Y. City. 11 hours, all O.T.

My guess is that Dad intended to go back to black ink after the Siamese twins story.