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Aug 16 Sunday We went to Woodlawn where we picked our first berries of the season. I also played tennis with Eugene.

Aug 17 Eugene played with Bobby and Sylvia with Norma. We had a tube replaced in our television $5.50. Lillian read "East Side General" - Frank G. Slaughter. I read "On Our Way" Patterson, Mebel, Hill (Young Pages from American Biography [sic]).

It was actually ... American Autobiography. 

Aug 18 Sylvia went swimming at Walton (the summer school). I went to the library with Eugene where he drew "Men of Other Planets" K. Heuer, "The Story of Bobby Shantz" as told to Ralph Bernstein "Adventures in Time & Space" Healy & McComas, "Jill & I & the Salmon" Jack Russell, "The Exploration of Space" A.C. Clarke.

Aug 19 Eugene visited Bobby after the latter called up. Lillian went to see Sarah also. Sylvia went to Tibbetts with the vacation school group. I beat Burd at St James. Riots in Iran have cost 300 lives and the successive flight of Shah Pahlevi and Premier Mossadegh. Premier Laniel demanded French strikers return before talks are resumed. The biggest 1-man holdup in years saw $191,000 stolen in a Floral Park bank. Ed Flynn is dead at 61 and Bishop McConnell at 82.

Aug 20 Sylvia and Susan K went swimming at Walton then to the Fordham to see the three dimensional "The Charge at Feather River" and Count the Hours". I played tennis with Eugene then lost to Freddy Katz. Russia announced it had exploded an H-Bomb. This was confirmed by us.

Aug 21 Non-Communist gov't workers in France returned to work but the strike spread in private industry.

Aug 22 I beat Baldi at St James. Eugene and Sylvia looked for friends in the park in vain. Former Rep Knutson is dead at 72, Bert Andrews at 52 and Malcom [sic] Bingay at 68.