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.
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