Feb 15 Sunday Sylvia has been troubled with an irritable throat for some time. She "clears" it frequently We renewed Dr Holzman's prescription of a mixture to relieve her. Eugene's habit of continually rubbing the back of his hand or else rubbing the tips of his fingers together is not better. Police Commissioner Monaghan and his two top aides viewed a secret film showing open activities of gamblers on city streets.
Feb 16 Sylvia stayed home today with her cold. She gargles, gets nose drops and vaporizer.
Feb 17 Sylvia was still hoarse. The Rosebergs were slated to die on Mar. 9. Many rallies were held to protest Soviet anti-semitism and to ask Russia to release its Jews. Bressler, Gold and Austin, employees of City Colleges were discharged for refusing to talk about their Communist affiliations.
Feb 18 Eugene lost his temporary appliance for his teeth and it was $15. to replace it. Lillian lost her wallet with about $10 today and fell low about it, but at 6 PM she got a call from a Mrs. Doherty in L.I.C. that she had found it (at Kings Rd. & Creston Av.) and was mailing it back. The Rosenbergs received another "stay" until at least Mar. 30 for another plea. Provoo received a 'life' term for treason. At the Amer. Assoc'n of School Admin. convention Mrs Agnes E. Meyer denounced the activities of McCarthy, Jenner & Velde as an inquisition menacing academic freedom and our democratic way of life. The State Supreme Court reversed the reversal of the referee's decision of the Giardello - Graham fight restoring the decision to the former. State Supreme Court Justice Schreiber upheld the ban on the press and the public at the Jelke vice trial imposed by Judge Valente, since sodomy was involved.
"L.I.C." would presumably have been Long Island City, although the abbreviation could have been "L.J.C."; I don't know what that could have stood for.
Feb 19 I stayed home from work today. Sylvia returned to school. Eugene has a stuffed nose.
Feb 20 It was disclosed that five people had died recently after being refused admission to Fordham Hospital. Many cases of police brutality are again being publicized and demands for Monaghan's dismissal are mounting. It is also charged that the latter had made an agreement with the Justice Dep't, to refrain from investigations of police brutality. Three more U.N. employees refused to state whether they were Communists. Probers of the "Voice of America" heard employees charge there were many whitewashes of Communist activities. It was charged that Howard Fast's writing had been approved for broadcasting.
Feb 21 Lillian now has a cold. Anheuser-Busch bought the St Louis Cardinals from prison-bound Fred Saigh for $3,750,000. The latter was sentenced for income-tax evasion. Three "Voice" officials, Goldman, Berman and Taylor denied accusations of communist bias in their broadcasts. Former Italian Premier Francesco Nitti is dead at 84. Sylvia sent in this poem to Playmate Magazine
Seasons
First comes summer when the air is burning hot, you see
And all the biting insects come out, such as the bee
Then comes autumn when the leaves fall down to the ground
And it gets cooler, that I've also found
And then before you know it winter's here at last
And the winter winds blow while the snow comes down fast
Then after winter comes the spring when it isn't cold at all
And many people think it is the best season of all
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.
Interesting re our conversation about the Rosenbergs. Wonder how he felt about the case.
ReplyDeleteInteresting, too, the City College reference. I think we were there at a less interesting time. Perhaps it was still called the Little Red Schoolhouse in the fifties.
FWIW, Dad wrote "colleges" (plural), and Bressler was at Brooklyn College, the other two at CCNY. I agree that there were few echoes of the Little Red Schoolhouse during our years there.
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