Events/Deaths (Book 8)

At the end of each book, Dad included summaries of significant events, and deaths, from each book of the Diary. 

                                                                        Events 1951

'51
Aug 17 Sylvia gets deep cut on leg.
        24 Evans wins U.S. chess title.
        26 Macgregor-Sedgman win U.S. Doubles title.
        28 Giants win 16 straight     
Sept   3 37 die in fishing boat tragedy
          4 Sedgman wins U.S. Singles, Maureen Connolly wins Women's
        13 Ray Robinson regains Middleweight title.
        20 Chief bookie Gross refuses to testify
        22 Eugene and I see Giant Brave game
        29 Reynolds pitches 2nd No-hitter of year
Oct    4 Giants win play-off for pennant
          6 Pop has accident
        11 Yanks win World Series over Giants 4-2
        22 Truman names first envoy to Vatican
        24 Sylvia has colitis
        26 Tories regain power in England
Nov   3 We get increased pay, sick leave and vacation
          7 Halley wins City Council pres. in upset
        16 Eugene gashes head
        20 Basketball stars jailed for "shaving" points
        25 Peggy visits us
Dec   4 Sylvia has virus of neck gland
         7 Eugene's first failure
       12 DiMaggio retires
       21 Mine explosion kills 119
       30 Australia beats U.S. in Davis Cup 3-2
'52
Jan   2 Illinois beats Stanford in Rose Bowl 40-7
Feb 10 Sylvia has congested chest
        13 Eugene has sore throat and swollen glands
        21 First "Brownie" meeting held
        25 Savitt and Mrs Kiner win tennis titles
Mar 10 Arnold Schuster murdered. He spotted Willy Sutton
        21 Sylvia has a virus bronchitis
        22 Humphrey Bogart, Vivian Leigh and "An American in Paris" win awards for 1951
        27 "Brownies" investiture is held with photographs
        31 Truman will not run
Apr 10 "I Am a Camera" wins dramatic award
        28 176 killed in destroyer plane crash
May  6 "The Caine Mutiny" and "The Shrike" win Pulitzer prizes
        10 Eugene has gland inflammation
        12 Sylvia goes to the Royal Hospital with an appendicitis and has her appendix out
        26 West German peace pact signed
        30 French crisis starts
June  3 Supreme Court upsets Truman seizure
        26 Maxim won over Robinson in 14th
July   5 Wimbledon winners Sedgman, Connolly
         20 Susan and Peggy spend two days with us
         25 Eugene goes to Boy Scout Camp
         30 South Pacific (we see)
Aug    4 U.S. is Olympics winner
           7 ...
          16 Sylvia visits her cousins
Sept    8 Sedgman and Maureen Connolly win Nat'l Singles
            5 Susan has polio
(Dad did enter this out of order)
          24 Rocky Marciano wins Heavyweight title, Ko's Walcott in 12
Oct      7 Yanks beat Dodgers in World Series 4-3
          16 Jim Carter wins Lightweight title
          20 Sylvia home with stuffed nose and belly-ache
          25 ....
          28 Eugene gets new glasses on prescription by Dr Fleischner
Nov     4 Sylvia comes home from Hospital as Eisenhower wins
           11 Lie resigns as Lillian gets coat at Kleins
           26 George Meany is new AFL president
           28 11 Czech Communists sentenced to gallows
Most of the next page (two sides) is so torn as to make transcription impossible. Dad did continue "Events" on the inside back cover of the notebook, but I have decided not to bother with it, since it's just a repetition of what he wrote earlier; perhaps he did this section in order for him to have a way to go back and find things. There is also, at the end of each book, a list of "Deaths", in which he repeated the names and dates of the notables whose deaths he recorded; this one does not seem to start at the beginning of the book, and I have decided not to transcribe it as, again, it just repeats what he wrote earlier.

Accordingly, this is the end of Book 8.