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Oct 4 Florence Sabin is dead at 81  and Sir Arnold Box at 69. Lil and the kids went over to Sam & Molly where Eugene & Sam watched the World Series, Sylvia read and Lil & Molly chatted.

Oct 5 At the movies Saturday, the kids got into a scuffle as usual forcing Lil to take Eugene and change their seats. Sylvia bore the brunt of the bawling out which came later.

Oct 6  The Yankees became the first team to win five successive World Series. Second year man Billy Martin's hit in the ninth inning won. He broke the record for hits in a six game series with 12 and hit .500. Friedrich Wolf is dead at 65.

Oct 7 Sylvia bought stars to give to the good children on the lines she monitors. Mom and pop came over to have supper with us. Then Lil and I went to the P.A. meeting at "Science" where we saw how two classes are conducted. One was on the Techniques of Public Discussion where the pupils gave thier views on the Admission of Communist China to the UN. The other was Physics where the steam engine was discussed.

Oct 8 Six year old Bobby Greenlease, kidnapped and ransomed for $600,000 was found dead in a grave. Two of his three abductors have been caught. 

Oct 9 Sylvia birthday James Paul Mitchell, business man was appointed Sec'y of Labor to replace Martin Durkin, resigned. Nigel Bruce is dead at 58 and Lord Strabalgi at 67.

Oct 10 Sylvia went downtown with her troop to see "Little Boy Lost" at the Rivoli. However, she and a friend found the rest of the troop had left when they got to the subway so they went roller skating. British troops were sent to British Guiana where a left wing government was stripped of its powers. This regime had been led by Dr Cheddi Jagan and his American born wife. Yugoslavs stoned British American & French embassies in protest against an announced decision to give over Zone A of the Free territory of Trieste to Italy. I read Dr Overstreets "The Mature Man [sic]".

Dad clearly wrote "The Mature Man", but the book was "The Mature Mind".