Feb 28 Sunday I met the family at Evelyn's where Isabel's birthday was celebrated. The rest came by Milton's car. Present were Celia, the Schwartzberg family, Julia & Sam, Lilly and her two kids, Lil Thelma Harold & Andrea. The two Lils, Sylvia & Eugene & Isabel played piano. Seth and Andrea crawled all over the floor. Eugene and Charles Schwartzberg played games read comics and teased the girls. Marilyn, very adorable looked for ways to help. Naguib was restored as Egypt's leader in a sudden switch.
Mar 1 A fire at Grossinger's caused the death of seven employees in a staff cottage. Greatest H-Bomb exploded near Bikini.
Mar 2 Three fanatical Porto Rican nationalists Lolita Lebron, Rafael Mirand[a] and Andres Cordero, started shooting in the House of Representatives, while shouting for freedom for their country and wounded five Congressmen. Reps. Alvin Bentley - critical Ben Jensen - serious, Clifford Davis, George Fallon and Kenneth Roberts - leg wounds.
Mar 3 McCarthy has been criticized by both Leonard Hall, Republican National Chairman and President Eisenhower.
Mar 4 Sylvia got 100% on a geography test and was very proud of it. Eugene asked Lillian if she thought he should try out for the tennis team. In [a] shocking reversal, the Board of Higher Education voted to oust Nat Holman from City College for conduct unbecoming a teacher and neglect of duty, a few days after a trial group had voted 2-1 to clear him of charges growing out of the 1950 basketball scandals. We both read former Police Commissioner Valentine's "Night Stick". Lillian read "The Sundowners" Jon Cleary, "This is the Hour" Feuchtwanger "Stars on the Sea" F Van Wyck Mason.
Mar 5 Lillian went to a meeting at "Science" where parents were advised not to drive the children to study as they would refrain as a protest against nagging.
Mar 6 Sylvia went to a Girl Scout rally at the Seventh Reg. Armory. She had been chosen to represent her troop there. Lil and Eugene went to the Lido to see Martin & Lewis in "The Caddy". Also "So Big" with Jane Wyman. I met them in the movies. They went home to be there when Sylvia got home. They saw the whole show. Eugene stopped off to pick up the Scrabble game I had bought. Police here seized an arsenal intended for shipment to Cuba and arrested two Cubans. In a sensational bout, Paddy DeMarco a 4-1 underdog defeated Lightweight champ Jimmy Carter to win the title.
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