Apr 3 Sunday We drove to mom's where I made pop's income tax. Eugene told us about space travel. Two of Sylvia's poems appeared in E.B.B.'S Chatterbox. ....
Apr 4 Thirty nine, mostly children, were killed in a Belgian theatre fire.
Apr 5 Two Chinese "Red" leaders were purged. One, Kao Kang committed suicide, the other was Jao Shu-Shih.
Apr 6 To Molly's for Passover supper. Also there Annie and Murray, Jane and Mildred, Mrs Cohen, Mike Ev & Isabel. Churchill, at eighty, announced his retirement as Prime Minister.
Apr 7 Eugene still plays the piano. He is practicing "Moonlight Sonata" and "The Minute Waltz". Sylvia rarely plays. Eugene and Jerry went to the Ascot to see "The Animal Farm". Afterwards they played scrabble here for 5¢ a game of which we disapproved. Francis X. McQuade is dead at 71. Three men escaped with a record $305,000 in a holdup of the Chase Manhattan Bank at Woodside.
Apr 8 Sylvia went to the library with Ann S. and drew "Sylvan City" N. Paschal "Good Bye, Mr Chips" James Hilton "Love From Sandy" E. Berger "Linda's Homecoming" P.A. Whitney "Sue Barton, Rural Nurse" H.D. Boylston. Eugene went to the schoolyard and played some handball with himself. The kids are off from school and Eugene does shopping for Lil while Sylvia walks her to the subway for work. Theda Bara is dead at 65.
Apr 9 Jerry and Red called for Eugene and went along with us for a drive to the Botanical Gardens. We saw some pretty flower displays. Lillian ordered a dinette set and two extra folding chairs at Masters $82. Prissy was found dead this morning - of neglect?
Prissy was our parakeet; see 8/29/53.
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