Mar 13 Sunday Eugene and I drove downtown to shop. He watched the meter and read. Then we met Lil and Sylvia at Central Commercial H.S. for the "Fed" rally for our pay raise and against re-classification. Congressmen Fine, Dollinger, Zelenka and Klein spoke in addition to union officials. Sylvia listened to half the program then read and nagged to go. We left at 4:30 having stayed over 2 hours. We walked into the News bldg. for a while then sent the kids for sodas while we had coffee and cake in an Automat. Sylvia bought post cards again. ...
Mar 14 Eugene Red and Jerry went up to the roof with the telescope but some neighbors thought they were prowlers and called the police. They ordered the boys off. Walter Winchell was forced to with withdraw his accusations of "Communism". publicly, against "The Post" and James Wechsler after a lawsuit.
I have been waiting for this incident to come up in the diary. As dad said, we went up to the roof to use the telescope, and a cop suddenly appeared at the top of the stairs, saw us, and approached, asking what we were doing up here. As the owner of the telescope, I had to answer, querulously: "L-l-l-ooking at the stars". After which the cop asked "What stars?" A bit dumbstruck, I just pointed overhead. After yelling down to his partner that it was just a couple of kids, he told us to get off the roof. We did.
Mar 15 Stocks reached 10 year lows as the "market" was studied by a Senate Banking Committee.
Mar 16 Daylight Savings Time was extended a month by the City Council. Aneurin Bevan was ousted from the British Labor Party. Shavey Lee is dead at 52.
Mar 17 Came home with four hours vacation tonight. The B'klyn Eagle announced it would never publish again in the midst of a 47 day strike.
Mar 18 The sensations these days are the release of the "Yalta Papers" and the Vice trial of Mickey Jelke with V-Girl Pat Ward naming big names who were customers. Eugene is on the Math Society Committee temporarily. Had the car repaired at Oldsmobile. Rear light, front light, side dent and chrome: $33.
Mar 19 Sylvia went skating at Wollman with Susan Greenfield. Eugene went skating to IBM with Jerry and Red but it was closed. They toured auto salesrooms and a penny arcade.
