May 1 Sunday We all drove downtown where Lil bought a blouse skirt and shoes for Sylvia, rain hat for Eugene and some pillowcases. Then we drove to Sam and Molly's for dinner seeing Antonelli win a sixteen inning game 2-1. Molly had a cold.
May 2 The Left-Wing May Day Celebration drew 2500 participants. Fast spoke and Robeson sang. Arthur Deakin is dead at 64.
May 3 William Faulkner won the Pulitzer Prize for the best novel "The [sic] Fable", Tennessee Williams the drama prize for "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", Minotti for opera "The Saint of Bleecker Street".
May 4 Linda Christian divorced Tyrone Power and was awarded a million dollar settlement.
May 5 Georges Enesco is dead at 73. Eugene drew "Don Camillo's Dilemma" G. Guareschi, "Analytic Geometry" F.D. Murnaghan, "Botany Bay" Nordhoff & Hall, "Missing Men of Saturn" P. Latham, "Playmaker" [sic] D. Friendlich. Sylvia drew "How Do I Love Thee" (E.B. Browning) H.E. White, "Danny" W. & S. Cunningham.
May 6 Squeezed in between two cars, I got out after ten minutes of maneuvering and found I had a flat tire (a nail). Lillian bought a topper $15,
May 7 We picked up Molly and mama and drove to "Masters" to pick up the two folding chairs Lil bought, then to Abe & Blume's, as Uncle had had a slight stroke. The Federal Republic of Germany, a sovereign gov't now joined the NAto [sic]. Eugene went over to Bobby's while Sylvia went to Sherry Pshenitzky's birthday.
