Mar 21 Sunday ...
Mar 22 Samuel Shellabarger is dead at 65.
Mar 23 Lillian started to lay the new kitchen tile we got - $28x.
The last digit is smudged
Mar 24 Lillian finished laying the linoleum. It was much harder than she expected and swore off similar undertakings. The big "McCarthy" question at present is whether he shall have a right to cross examine witnesses in the investigation of the dispute between himself and the Army, specifically whether his counsel Roy Cohn exerted pressure and made threats in order to get preferential treatment for another McCarthy employee Pvt. David Schine.
Mar 25 Many Japanese fishermen, Marshall Islanders and U.S. weather observers are said to have been exposed to radiation rays with varying effects in the H Bomb test. The racket ridden old - I.L.A. made the 20 day pier strike an official one. Lil, I and Sylvia went to the district Scout rally at Theodore Roosevelt H.S. Eugene was in the traffic division organizing the scouts' coming and going.
Mar 26 Russia announced that East Germany was now a sovereign state but that the Army would remain. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences gave out its annual "Oscars". Best Actor - William Holden ("Stalag Seventeen") Actress Audrey Hepburn ("Roman Holiday") Best Picture "From Here to Eternity".
May 27 Eugene and Bobby went out and played punch-ball with the gang at St. James. At night Sylvia and Lillian went to the bazaar at the temple where Sylvia spent $1.50 she bought a pen. Lil bought a hat.
