Oct 11 Sunday We had a gathering for Sylvia. Mom and pop, Lil, Harry and the kids, Sam & Molly and Freda came. Sylvia got a camera dress and several blouses. We played cards for a couple of hours. Sylvia and Susan entertained by reading a story with pictures to illustrate the text. Peggy drew colorful pictures. Eugene romped with the kids before he went to a patrol leader meeting.
Oct 12 Frieda slept over and left after breakfast. Sylvia had lunch at Joan Luskin's house then they roller skated. Eugene went over to the park after lunch with Lillian.
Oct 13 Yugoslavs continued to demonstrate and beat a U.S. Aide and others who sought to get U.S. news bulletins in protest against the projected ceding of Trieste Zone A to Italy. Longshoremen fought with police as the rivalry between Ryan and A.F.L. men continued. British Guiana unionists struck in protest against the suspension of their government. Delbert Clark is dead at 53. Lillian read Pearl Buck's "Kinfolk" & Fritz Peters "The World Next Door".
Oct 14 Eugene played football with Larry. Sylvia went shopping to Alexanders for a scarf for Carol Schinkler's birthday.
Oct 15 Ten Army radar aides have been suspended as "security risks". McCarthy claims they are members of a spy ring linked to the "Rosenbergs". Communist lecturers succeeded in persuading only 10 of 500 Chinese POW's to change their minds and decide to be repatriated. The others showed great hostility to the "explainers". Sylvia played miniature golf with her girl friends after school at a new Jerome Ave course.
Oct 16 Eugene left on an overnight camping trip to Alpine this afternoon. He will return Sunday afternoon. Sylvia went to a supper party at Carol Schinkler's house for her birthday. Some of the boys wanted to play "spin the bottle" but Mrs Schinkler did not permit it. Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Chuck Dressen Manager of the pennant winning Dodgers for the last two years has quit them when refused a 2- year contract.
Oct 17 Mom and pop took us to Lil & Harry's. Peggy, whom we bought a toy walking and talking dog complained that Susan's painting set was better. Sylvia and Susan rode the bicycles and played together. An explosion on the aircraft carrier Leyte off Boston cost over 30 lives and injured over forty.
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.
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