Apr 6 UN and Communist delegates began negotiations again for the exchange of sick and wounded POWs. Russia named deputy chief of the State Security Minister Ryumin as the one responsible for the false accusations against the doctors. His [?] chief Ignatiev was called neglectful in following his lead. We started a championship match in shooting the checkers to the edge of the table, interrupted to see "'Wuthering Heights". Sylvia saw "Peter Pan" at the "Fordham" with the Girl Scouts in the morning.
Apr 7 An all day rain kept us in. The kids gave a concert. U.N. and Korean delegates agreed to voluntary repatriation of sick and wounded POW's. In Russia Ignatiev was relieved of his post.
The following scanned in page was taped in on this diary page. It appears that it was a "program" I wrote for the concert. From the entry for April 9, below, it appears that I was the performer identified as "Syl Eh As", and Silvia was "Stu Pid Knut"
Apr 8 Eugene went to see an Automobile Plant in New Jersey with Mr. Kaplan and several other Scouts.
Lillian and Syl and the Brownie group saw "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" at the 92nd st. "Y". In the evening Lil Molly and I saw "The Love of Four Colonels" with Rex Harrison and Lili Palmer. Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden succeeded Trygve Lie as UN Sec'y Gen'l.
Don't know why Dad started a new paragraph in the middle.
Apr 9 Sadie came into New York and spent the afternoon here. The kids came in from their play and delighted us all with their piano playing. Sylvia played Durand's Valse, Eugene - La Zingara - Bohm and then "Tales of the Vienna Woods" duet. London's worst subway wreck killed and injured scores. A leader of the Mau Mau Society in Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta was sentenced to seven years hard labor. Coast Red hearings closed with 28 out of 46 witnesses having refused to answer questions. Lil Sylvia and I went out to Fordham at night while Eugene went to his Scout meeting. I got a jacket $6 at Alexanders while Lil got some nylons.
Apr 10 Eugene and I went to the 69th Regiment Armory to see the Knicks lose to the Minn. Lakers 91-84 to lose the play offs 4-1. It was a thriller with the Knicks falling far behind as usual and just failing to come through.
The box score of the game was taped in here, and scanned in below.
Apr 11 Mama came over and went shopping with Lil. Then she had lunch with us. The kids went to the library where Eugene drew "Rocket Ship Galileo" and "Red Planet" both by R.A. Heinlein, "My Kind of Football" Steve Owen "My 50 Years in Baseball" E.G. Barrow, and "Warren of West Point" R.G. Emory. Sylvia drew "Downtown" M.H. Lovelace, "The Latch Key Club" E. Clymer, "Ginger Pye" E. Estes, "Mary Poppins" P.L. Travers, "The Girl Without a Country" M.L. Poston. We went to the park where Eugene decided to stay and play ball while Lil , Sylvia and I went to the "Lido" to see "Eight Iron Men" a war picture and "My Cousin Rachel" a very good mystery. Dr Cyril Joad is dead at 61. Eugene got brown shoes an McCann's $7.70.
More likely I was Syl ... and you were Stu ... both because of my name and because the names of the pieces sound vaguely familiar.
ReplyDeleteYes, you're clearly correct, and I came to the same conclusion at first. But then I changed after somehow I thought the performer was shown ABOVE the piece, even though it should have been obvious, both from looking at the first piece, and the last one, which was a duet, that the performer was BELOW.
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