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Mar 1 Sunday The kids participated in the Purim carnival. Sylvia was dressed as Queen Esther in the grand march. There were the usual games of chance. There were hamantaschen for sale. Ass't US Atty Greenberg testified Police Comm. Monaghan had told him of an agreement to keep the FBI out of civil rights probes involving police. Monaghan has denied this in a telecast. "Trigger happy" cop Stanley Davis was found guilty of killing a Bkl'yn Negro into whose home he had broken. Playboy Minot Jelke was found guilty of compulsory prostitution. Thje Senate unanimously condemned "Red" persecution of minorities. Mobs stormed Premier Mossadegh's home in Iran forcing him to take refuge. They are loyal to Shah Pahlavi on the oil and land redistribution questions.

Mar 2 Lillian went downtown for Scout supplies.

Mar 3 Americans were stoned in Tehran as Mossadegh regained control of the country. Voice of America officials continued to be grilled by the McCarthy Committee. Barrows Dunham, Temple professor was suspended for refusing to talk about his Communist affiliations.
Moscow announced that Stalin was seriously ill, having had a brain hemorrhage.

The last sentence was clearly written in later, hence the start of a new paragraph. 

Mar 4 A fire in the Utility Prod. Co 150 st & River Ave cost seven lives and injured 15. Brooklyn College instructors Murray Young and Elton Gustafson were suspended for refusing to talk about Communist affiliation. Jim Jeffries is dead at 77 and Clyde Milan at 65.

Mar 5 Stalin is worse.

Mar 6 Cornelius Hall died. Stalin is dead at 73. He never regained consciousness after his stroke. Millions passed his bier as he lay in state. Plans to raise rents 15% were held up by great protests by City residents. Eugene took the High School of Science entrance exam.

The first death was actually written in above the line of Stalin's death. 

Mar 7 Eugene went to Larry R's Bar Mitzvah. The services were at the Tremont Temple and the reception at the Park Terrace. Eugene and a couple of the other boys had the band play "They told us we were too young"as a joke on Larry and Jill Holland, his girl friend. Georgi Malenkov succeeded Stalin as Soviet Premier. Herman Mankiewicz is dead at 55 and Philip Rosenbach at 89. James Dawson is dead at 57.

It was a very fancy Bar Mitzvah; I remember it as the first time I saw an ice sculpture on the table; it was of a swan. As Dad wrote, we did have the band play that song, with the first line "They tried to tell us we're too young". We actually had to scramble, as Jill had left the room, and we had to tell her some story to get her back, so the band could play the song for her and Larry Rubinstein.