Jan 3 Sunday Eugene is working on his model city again. He finished his equatorial mounting on his telescope but Sylvia pushed it today breaking something. Sylvia is doing a lot of drawing.
The telescope mounting was a HS project in STL - Science Techniques Lab; essentially a "shop" course.
Jan 4 Gus Dorais is dead at 62.
Jan 5 Sylvia got 7.9 in her math which indicates she is capable of 7-8 year math. She is also following in Eugene's footsteps in the 'Scouts' as she is now Patrol Leader. Eugene is now spending several hours on his homework.
Jan 6 The Gallins children ate here as their aunt died yesterday. I went to Dr Holzman about the pain in my chest and found I had an intercostal myositis. The treatment is infra-red lamp for twenty minutes a day, two feet from body, then imadyl unction and binding. My blood pressure was 134; heart good. An employee of the Bureau of Engraving, James Landis was arrested for the New Year's Eve theft of $160,000 from the gov'ts paper money factory. This was the gov't's greatest loss from theft ever. Algernon Lee is dead at 80.
Jan 7 Walter Reuther's 1948 shooting was solved with the arrest of several racketeers and union busters for the crime. Rabbit Maranville is dead at 61.
Jan 8 Lillian went to the Chapel with Madeline for her sister's services. When she got home she found the kids had eaten their supper but left the butter on the table, the table uncleared and the dishes unwashed. President Eisenhower startled the country by proposing to take away the citizenship of Communists convicted of conspiring to overthrow the government.
Jan 9 S Stanwood Menken is dead at 83. We both read Rabbi Wise's and LaGuardia's Autobiography.
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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