Oct 25 Sunday Lil and the kids went to the Fordham yesterday to see "Mr Scoutmaster" with Clifton Webb, Edmund Gwenn and Frances Dee and "'Vicki" with Jeanne Crain and Jean Peters - a mystery picture. They enjoyed both.
Oct 26 Lillian went downtown to Paula's place for some typing work. Milk drivers struck for a $15. per week increase, 35 hr. week and other benefits. Georgia Tech lost to Notre Dame 27-14 after 31 successive victories. Michigan State lost to Purdue 6-0 after 28 successive victories.
Oct 27 Americans charged at the UN that Russians had used mental and physical torture on American flyers to extort confessions of germ warfare.
Oct 28 Cattle men in a march on Washington failed to win Sec'y of Agriculture Benson for a program of gov't support of livestock in order to increase prices.
Oct 29 The Army charged over 28000 Allied soldiers and civilians were tortured or killed including 6000 Americans in Korea.
Oct 30 Eugene in horsing around with his Scout friends fell and hurt his lower back. Lillian took him to Dr Holzman who fluoroscoped him and said he had a contusion of the coccyx. He advised sitz baths and infra-red lamp treatments. 19 persons on board an airliner, including the American pianist William Kapell, at 31, were killed in a crash near San Francisco.
Certainly remember that fall and the diagnosis.
Oct 31 Pop came over to bring my watch which I had left at Lil's and papers to be filled out for the Workmen's Circle. He then drove us over to the Zoo where we saw birds of paradise, elephants, seals etc. Nobel Peace Prizes went to Gen. Marshall for 1953 and Dr Albert Schweitzer for 1952. Emmerich Kalman is dead at 71.
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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