2/20-2/26/55

Feb 20 Sunday Sylvia went to Sherry's house to study Spanish. Then she met Eugene and Lil at Molly & Sam's where they ate delicatessen. 

Feb 21 Eugene drew "Man in the Iron Mask" Dumas and "Theodore Roosevelt" Henry Pringle - both for book reports, "Luckman at Quarterback" Luckman, "A Treasure Chest of Sport Stories" Max Herzberg, "Tales of Adventurers" Geoffrey Household. Eugene usually stops in Woolworths after school with his friends Jerry and "Red" for hot chocolates. Chinese Nationalists sank many Red Chinese ships. ... Lillian saw ''The Barefoot Contessa with Humphrey Bogart and Ava Gardner Saturday.

Feb 22 We drove to the Vogue to see "The Member of the Wedding" with Ethel Waters, Julie Harris and Brandon DeWilde and the powerful brutal story of crime on the docks "On The Waterfront" with Eva St. Marie St., Marlon Brando and Lee Cobb. Three former Communists who testified against many figures convicted or smeared as Communists have renounced their testimony.  

The red "St." was inserted, and the earlier one struck through, after this entry was written 

Feb 23 Lil and I drove around for business after lunch picking up Sylvia and some of her schoolmates and bringing them home in between. Tony Trabert won the Nat'l Indoor Singles over Ham Richardson 11-[1]3, 7-5, 9-7, 6-3. Trabert & Seixas d. Richardson and Talbert in the doubles 6-3, 13-11. Paul Claudel is dead at 86. We both read "Take them up Tenderly" - New Yorker profiles by Margaret Case Harriman. 

Feb 24 Edgar Faure became French Premier after a 19 day interim. 

Feb 25 Sylvia went to Eileen Danies' birthday party. The girls danced and played charades. They decided to form a dancing club and meet once a month in a different girls house. Eugene had his first dancing lesson at the "Y". At night he invited Jerry and Red over to look through his telescope which they took up to the roof. Sylvia went up there when she got home. The boys broke up after 11 PM.  

Feb 26 We drove down to the Battery and went to the Marine Museum in the Seaman's Church Institute. Sylvia was against the whole thing of course but was appeased by some postal cards which she is collecting.

2/13-2/19/55

Feb 13 Sunday We drove to New Jersey dropping off Sam & Molly at Milton's then going on to Sylvia and Dwight's. Dwight Jr was very cute and outspoken. Marion is very nice also. We saw Lou, May and Frieda. We left after dinner picking up Sam & Molly on the way home. Andy is very beautiful.  

Feb 14 Gen'l Brehon Somervell is dead at 62, Tom Moore at 71, SZ Sakall at 67, Joseph Weinberg at 78. Abigail Adams committed suicide at 

Dad apparently left a space for Adams' age, but didn't fill it in. She was 33. Sakall was actually 72, not 67.

Feb 15 The UN suspended its efforts to solve the Formosan problem following Red China's rejection of an invitation to discuss the situation at a conference. 

Feb 16 Lillian took Eugene to Dr Holzman when he complained he couldn't bend his elbow after banging it here. Dr. Holzman fluoroscoped it and found no break but a contusion of the bone. He put the arm in a sling and advised baking with a sun lamp. 

Feb 17 Five Romanian anti-communists who took over the Romanian Embassy in Switzerland killing a chauffeur and vowing to stay until four resistance leaders were released in Romania have surrendered to Swiss authorities. 

Feb 18 The kids registered for dancing at the Y.W.C.A.

Feb 19 Sylvia went to the R.K.O. with friends.They saw "There's No Business like Show Business" with Ether Merman and Don O'Connor. Eugene went over to Bobby's.

2/6-2/12/55

Feb 6 Sunday It rained all day and we watched television: Crocodiles and Alligators on "Adventure" "Patrick Henry" on Hallmark of Fame" [sic] Jackie Coogan, Mary Small, Bobby Breen, Dicky Moore guest stars on Juvenile Jury. The Costa Rican revolt flared up again. U.S. planes downed two "Migs" off Korea. 

Feb 7 Tachen is being evacuated by the Chinese Nationalists with the U.S. fleet standing by for protection. 

Feb 8 Lillian got Sylvia a bathrobe and skirt which delighted her. 

Feb 9 Marshal Bulganin became Premier of Russia as Malenkov resigned, declaring his leadership had been inadequate. Former Sen. Rush Holt is dead at 49.

Feb 10 Lillian went down to Paula Peterson's place for full time work today addressing letters and made $10. The A.F.L. & C.I.O. approved a formula for a merger. 

Feb 11 Antoine Pinay has failed to form a French gov't. 

Feb 12 We drove over to Lil and Harry's. We played ping pong. Sylvia and Susan played around together. They are very chummy. Peggy showed off her new reading ability. Sylvia also read to her. Ona Munson committed suicide at 49.

1/30-2/5/55

Jan 30 Sunday Sylvia still gets the pains on and off. She doesn't eat much. However she went skating at Wollman with Susan G, Helen P. Harriet C. Nympha D. Jenn H. Lillian read "The Years are Even" H. Stackpole. 

The name of the author was Skidmore, not Stackpole. I guess he made the entry from memory. 

Jan 31 Sylvia went ice skating at St James with Susan G. Lil Eugene and I had the car washed, made a business stop at Burnside, bought two Cherry Ames books for Sylvia in Tremont where Lil shopped and went to the library. Furtwangler is dead. 

A famous Furtwangler died in November 1954. Could not find one in January 1955. 

Feb 1 The U.N. invited Red China to help end the hostilities in the islands of China. The Special Comm. on Veterans named Home Run Baker and Ray Schalk to the Hall of Fame. 

Feb 2 Sylvia is better now and has resumed eating. ... Nationalist and Red China continued to bomb each other in the fight for the offshore islands as the world crisis over Chou's vow to regain Formosa continued. 

Feb 3 The mercury hit 0° this morning - the coldest in seven years. 

Feb 4 ... Red China refused to attend the Security Council meeting to discuss the civil war unless Nationalist China was ousted. 

Feb 5 We drove over to mother's for a while then went to the Kingsbridge to see "Lilli" [sic] with Leslie Caron and Mel Ferrer - beautiful picture with Carnival background. Also "Fire over Africa" with Maureen O'Hara and McDonald Carey. The Mendes France gov't fell because of his soft North African policy.