Apr 25 Sunday Sylvia and Eugene played "Monopoly" for several hours today. It was the first time in a long time.
Apr 26 Joseph Hergesheimer is dead at 74.
Apr 27 Enemy nations of the East and West began the Geneva Conference on the Far East to discuss Korea and Indo China. ...
Apr 28 15000 New York schoolchildren received injections in a test of the newly developed 'Polio' vaccine perfected by Dr. Jonas Salk. Half of the injections were false in order to make comparative studies. At Geneva, North and South Korea asked for All-Korean supervised elections and North Korean elections, respectively. Lillian spent most of the day in bed.
Apr 29 Eugene drew "The Encyclopedia of Sports" F.G. Menke, "Robots Have No Tails" L. Padgett, "The Umpire's Story" JM Kahn, "Knights of the Range" Zane Grey. Lillian was much better today. Leon Jouhaux is dead at 74. We went up to the temple to watch the 18th Anniversary of Troop 189. Eugene opened and closed the ceremonies. The program included an Indian dance, investiture of tenderfeet, various awards. Coffee and cake came at the end. There was a small crowd compared to last years crowd of 90.
Apr 20 Joe Laurie Jr is dead at 62.
May 1 Eugene left early this morning with his troop for the Ehrlich property near Ellenville for an overnight camping trip. Lillian took her "Brownies" to the Planetarium. Sylvia, Gail and Susan K. went on a bicycling trip with sandwiches again. They rode around the reservoir and ate in Mosholu [sic]. Mom and pop came over and we had a supper of spinach borscht, potato blintzes, coffee and strawberry shortcake. I got sweat socks from Eugene, a book of poems from Sylvia, socks and pyjamas from Lillian and slacks from mom and pop. In the evening we took Sylvia out to the Lido to see "The Eddie Cantor Story" with Keefe Brazelle [sic] as Eddie. 16 teachers lost their posts in the city anti-subversive drive for insubordination. They had refused to cooperate, refusing to discuss their political beliefs.
