7/18-7/24/54

July 18 Sunday The kids and I went down to the reservoir. Sylvia rode her bike. Eugene and I had a catch with our hard ball. We then did the double-crostic for a while. 

July 19 We took the kids to the annual Gershwin concert at the stadium. We came at 7 PM to make sure we got in but the very threatening weather kept people away and we were among the first in (30¢ seats). Sylvia managed to tolerate the concert and Eugene said he enjoyed it. We had ice cream sodas after the performance. 

Interesting that he says "the stadium". It was Lewisohn Stadium, and I remember the concert, but not whether I really enjoyed it. And the program was taped in over this entry. 

 

July 20 We went to Lil's with mom and pop for Peggy's sixth birthday. We brought a piece of wearing apparel and a golf game. Most of us played golf on the lawn.

July 21 Eugene played tennis with Larry then went to the Yankee game with him. Sylvia went to the Walton pool with Susan. Roy Cohn resigned as chief counsel to the McCarthy subcommittee. France and the Vietminh signed an armistice in Indochina ending the eight year war. Vietnam will be divided into two equal parts. Maureen Connolly smashed her leg while horseback riding and will be unable to defend her title at Forest Hills. Ex-Senator Blair Moody is dead at 52.

July 22 Sylvia went swimming then went downtown with Lil to be examined by the "Y" doctor. Eugene played ball with Larry in the afternoon. I beat W. Burd at St James.  

July 23 Mildred W. took Lil and the kids to Wilson's [sic] Woods where they had a nice time swimming and bathing. 

July 24 We went to Tibbetts Brook today and had a nice time. First we ate on a hillside, then swam and bathed in the pool. Eugene swam a few strokes for the first time. Sylvia showed off her prowess including the 'dead man's float'. Homeward we walked the two miles to the #4 bus and picked strawberries on the way which Lil made into jam. 

The Yankee game we went to on the 21st was glued (not taped) in here, and the last two entries were written around it. Dad wrote "(the game Eugene saw)" under it. 

7/11-7/17/54

July 11 Sunday Pop took us to Woodlawn. Sam, Molly, Jane and Mike also came over. I played tennis with the kids and also beat Phil Diamond. The kids played with each other. Eugene also played with another boy. 

July 12 Lillian called Dr Holzman and found she had a spastic gall bladder. Sylvia went swimming at Walton with Susan Kaufman. We both read "Trial Judge" Bernard Botein and "Strange Lands and Friendly People" W. O. Douglas. Lillian got Sylvia a blouse, material for blouses, shoes. The painter plastered our living room, bath room and our bedroom ceilings. 

July 13 Sylvia went swimming again with Susan. I went to Dr Robbins. Sylvia got a bathing suit. 

July 14 Sylvia went swimming again. I played tennis with Eugene. Grantland Rice is dead at 73, Irving Pichel at 63 and Bennett Champ Clark at 64. 

The box score of the MLB All Star Game was taped in here, without any comment; the game was played on July 13. 

July 15 Lillian felt badly this morning but improved later. Sylvia went swimming again while I had a catch with Eugene. Jacinto Benaventi [sic] is dead at 87. 

July 16 Played tennis with Eugene then lost a set to Paul Abrams. Lil and the kids went to the Paradise to see "Executive Suite" with Billy Holden, June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March, Walter Pidgeon, Shelley Winters, Louis Calhern and Paul Douglas, also "Saadia". 

July 17 Lil and the kids, Madeline and Jerry, taxied back and forth to Orchard Beach. Lil went bathing for a short while. Madeline did not go in at all.