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Oct 18 Sunday Eugene came home at 11 this morning. They didn't do much but camp, cook their meals, etc. He had a good time.

Oct 19 Lil went downtown with mama where the latter ordered a chair at Gimbel's and a coat at Lane Bryant. Sylvia had lunch here alone.

Oct 20 Sylvia has been languishing for a bicycle like her friends have. Eugene is supposed to go to the Chess Club meeting but still hasn't done so. Israel's raid on Jordan in which 42 were killed has cost her American aid. Bobo Olson won the World's Middleweight Championship vacated by Ray Roinson when he defeated Randy Turpin. 

Oct 21 An all time record high of 77.4° was set here yesterday. Bill Hutcheson is dead at 79.

Oct 22 Lillian got drapes for our room $25. and curtains for the living room $5. Eugene visited the chess club at school and played three games. He won one and adjourned two. Mayor Impelliteri was ruled off the ballot by the state Supreme Court on the ground he had too few valid petitions for his independent nomination.

Oct 23 Home from work Lillian and Sylvia went to the dentist. Lillian needed no work, but Sylvia has three cavities $17. The U.S. will build the first atom plant for industry. Two refugee scientists Dr Fritz Lippmann and Dr Hans Krebs received the 1953 Nobel Prize for Medicine & Physiology jointly.

Oct 24 Sylvia had an attack in the early morning ... A Yugoslav sailor about to be deported fractured Bob Thompson's skull with a blow from a lead pipe at the Federal House of Detention. 1456 have been ousted from U.S. jobs for security reasons in four months of the Eisenhower security program. Twenty have been suspended at the radar project on suspicion of subversion.