Jan 11 Sunday To mother's for lunch. Harry Lil and kids also there. Gerty and her kids and Taubie dropped in. Eugene lost another chess game to pop; Peggy 'wrote'; the girls played, then wrote stories.
Jan 12 Sylvia complained of a sore throat and stayed home from school. Her temp was normal. She got a John [sic] Gnagy paint set which she used with gusto.
Jan 13 Bevo Francis of Rio Grande College scored 116 points in a basketball game. Moscow announced the arrest of eight "terrorist" Jewish doctors, "working under the instructions of Zionist organizations and U.S. and English intelligence Services"
Jan 14 All N.Y. Maritime Unions united to form the Greater N.Y. Harbor Port Council to clean up the waterfromt. Lillian got a black taffeta dress at Lerner's $7.95
Jan 15 Got plastic eyeglass frames $4. Silvia played with Barbara Joan L and Norma. At Remington's re-trial he was identified as a Communist by a former "party" head. Douglas Chandor is dead and Johnny Risko at 50.
The first space was apparently left to add in Barbara's last initial, the second for Douglas Chandor's age at death, but neither was filled in.
Jan 16 Lillian kept Sylvia home from school and took her to Dr Holzman's as she was clogged up. coughing repeatedly. He found she had a sinus infections and prescribed gargling, argyrol and neo-synephrin drops, some medication. She could go out. Ten ex G.I.'s were arrested on charges of espionage for Russia. Seven ex-Nazis were seized by the British and charged with plotting restoration of Nazi power. A runaway train rammed the Union Station in Wash. D.C. injuring 41. The fog here caused 4 harbor accidents. Four Jewish Community leaders in East Germany fled to West Berlin. East German Foreign Minister Dertinger was arrested as a "Western spy". In Israel a Communist book shop was bombed and Histadrut voted to oust all C.P. officers.
Jan 17 Bobby R came over with Danny and the kids played all day here and in the office. New Premier Naguib dissolved all Egyptian parties after an army plot to overthrow the gov't was discovered. Tony Anastasia quit as pier boss and Jerry Anastasia was arrested for refusing to talk to the crime inquiry.
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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