11/15-11/21/53

Nov 15 Sunday Lil, I and Sylvia walked over to the Amalgamated where we stopped in on Rochel's seeing David also. Mayer was out working. Rochel spoke to us about her rift with Ida and mom and pop.

Ida was Rochel's (fraternal) twin sister. 

Nov 16 Lillian has a cold and Eugene is home with a stomach ache.

Nov 17 Eugene returned to school. Pop had trouble passing his urine yesterday and went to Montefiore after work. The doctor advised an immediate operation. However today mom and pop went to the W.C. office and made an appointment to see Dr Opkiar [?]. The doctor had pop admitted to Beekman Hospital. Ex-President Truman made a nationwide telecast defending himself in the H.D. White case. He charged Att'y Gen'l Brownell with lying about the case. He claimed he had retained White in order to "get the goods" on him.

Nov 18 I stayed home from work (vacation) and took Lil to Dr Holzman as was [sic] distressed, bloated with gas and belching incessantly. The doctor put her on a diet, ... for several days. If she is not better he advised a gall bladder xray. I then went on to Beekman Hospital to see pop. He was feeling better today. He had had xrays and tests. Brownell and J.E. Hoover attacked Truman and denied his story fo the White "espionage" case.

Nov 19 Eugene's first H.S. report card had 1 E. - math, 1 G - English, 1 Fair and 3 passing. Lillian felt a little better today. The I.L.A. retired Ryan under indictment for embezzlement as president emeritus at $10,000 a year and elected Capt. Bradley as the new head.

Nov 20 Pop was operated on yesterday. He ran a temp of 105° afterwards and felt miserable today. He could not hold down anything he ate. 
Sylvia went to the library Thursday and drew "A Touchdown for Doc" Marion Renick, "Victory for Jill" A.E. Walden, "A Summer to Remember" E.A. [sic] Karolyi, Donny & Company E. Kinsey.

Dad did start a new paragraph within this entry.

Nov 21 We saw pop again and he felt a little better but still ate little. The kids went to the Lido while we went down. They saw "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and "Blueprint for Murder".

11/8-11/14/53

Nov 8 Sunday We went to the Poe Building opposite the Paradise for some ping pong but found the kids could not play as there was a bar in the place. Lil and I played a half hour.

Nov 9 Ivan Bunin is dead at 83.

Nov 10 The Supreme Court held 7-2 that baseball is a sport, not a business and not subject to anti-trust laws. Ibn Saud is dead at 73 and Dylan Thomas at 39. We went to Science High School for Parent-teacher group interviews during open school week, tonight. We saw four of his teachers Mrs Applebaum - English Mr. Rae - Social Studies, Mrs. Rand - Biology, Mrs. Robbins - Spanish. With the exception of Mrs. Applebaum they all said Eugene was not doing enough work and is not doing as well as he can. 

Nov 11 Armistice Day Went down with Eugene to the park. We met Bobby who took him along and had a catch on the lawn. Sylvia and Norma played nok-hockey. In the afternoon Sylvia Norma and Susan Kahn went to the "Grand" They saw "Return to Paradise" with Gary Cooper and "99 River St" with Evelyn Keyes John Payne. Eugene and Bobby went to Fordham where Eugene tried to get weights for his telescope but failed. President Truman, James Byrnes & Tom Clark were subpoenaed by the House Comm. on UnAmerican Activities to answer questions in connection with Att'y Gen'l Brownell's charges that Harry Dexter White had been promoted to director of the Intern'l Monetary Fund after the F.B.I. had reported he was a Russian spy.  

Nov 12 Ramon Magsaysay defeated President Quirino in Philippine elections.

Nov 13 Truman changed his mind and decided not to accept honor the subpoena he had accepted from the "House Committee" in the Harry Dexter White case.

Nov 14 Lillian took the kids down to Klein's to get shoes. Eugene takes size 8 1/2 now. They were on sale at $5. Sylvia got loafers at $3.

11/1-11/7/53

Nov 1 (Sunday, although Dad didn't write it) We went to the Kingsbridge where we saw John Wayne in "Island in the Sky" - of a plane lost in the ice and snow and Glenn Ford in "man from Alamo".[sic] The six day milk strike ended with workers getting $7. weekly raise and $1.50 in fringe benefits. Batista's Cuba outlawed Communism as a conspiracy.

Nov 2 Indian guards shot and killed one of 445 North Korean POW's scheduled to listen to Communist explainers trying to induce them to accept repatriation. This prisoner had ignored orders and attacked the Indian guards.

Nov 3 Election We voted for Halley and his ticket on the Independent Party line. Sylvia left early this morning with her "Intermediates" for a hike to the Palisades. Eugene went to play Miniature Golf with Larry. Lil went to the Jewish Theological Seminary with her Brownies. I had to work.

Nov 4 Robert F Wagner Jr was elected Mayor of N.Y. City with 997,000 votes. Riegleman R. 645,000 Halley Lib 455,000 McAvoy ALP 54,000

Nov 5 Marcantonio resigned as State Chairman of the A.L.P. The Athletics removed Jimmy Dykes and named Eddie Joost manager. Dykes was not notified.

Nov 6 Ten men have been killed in riots in the disputed Trieste territory. Walter Koppisch is dead at 53. Lillian read "Come Back [sic] Spinner" - Cusack & James. We both read "Fathers and Sons"  - Turgenev. I read "Incredible New York" - Lloyd Morris and "The Southpaw" - Mark Harris. 

The book appears to be "Come In Spinner". 

Nov 7 We went to mom's for lunch. Lil and the kids also there. The three girls would not eat "gefilte fish". After I went to work the girls went up to Taubie to see the new baby for whom Lil had a gift. Eugene went to the library last week and drew "The Time Masters" Wilson Tucker, "The Rolling Stones" R. Heinlein "A Gnome There Was" L. Padgett (all Science Fiction) and "The Captain from Connecticut" C.S. Forester. Sylvia went Thursday and drew "The Davenports and Cherry Pie" A. Dalgliesh "Up Goes the Curtain" J. Lambert "Seatmates" M. K. Reely, "Bright Days" M.L. Chastain.

10/25-10/31/53

Oct 25 Sunday Lil and the kids went to the Fordham yesterday to see "Mr Scoutmaster" with Clifton Webb, Edmund Gwenn and Frances Dee and "'Vicki" with Jeanne Crain and Jean Peters - a mystery picture. They enjoyed both.

Oct 26 Lillian went downtown to Paula's place for some typing work. Milk drivers struck for a $15. per week increase, 35 hr. week and other benefits. Georgia Tech lost to Notre Dame 27-14 after 31 successive victories. Michigan State lost to Purdue 6-0 after 28 successive victories.

Oct 27 Americans charged at the UN that Russians had used mental and physical torture on American flyers to extort confessions of germ warfare.

Oct 28 Cattle men in a march on Washington failed to win Sec'y of Agriculture Benson for a program of gov't support of livestock in order to increase prices.

Oct 29 The Army charged over 28000 Allied soldiers and civilians were tortured or killed including 6000 Americans in Korea.

Oct 30 Eugene in horsing around with his Scout friends fell and hurt his lower back. Lillian took him to Dr Holzman who fluoroscoped him and said he had a contusion of the coccyx. He advised sitz baths and infra-red lamp treatments. 19 persons on board an airliner, including the American pianist William Kapell, at 31, were killed in a crash near San Francisco.

Certainly remember that fall and the diagnosis. 

Oct 31 Pop came over to bring my watch which I had left at Lil's and papers to be filled out for the Workmen's Circle. He then drove us over to the Zoo where we saw birds of paradise, elephants, seals etc. Nobel Peace Prizes went to Gen. Marshall for 1953 and Dr Albert Schweitzer for 1952. Emmerich Kalman is dead at 71.

10/18-10/24/53

Oct 18 Sunday Eugene came home at 11 this morning. They didn't do much but camp, cook their meals, etc. He had a good time.

Oct 19 Lil went downtown with mama where the latter ordered a chair at Gimbel's and a coat at Lane Bryant. Sylvia had lunch here alone.

Oct 20 Sylvia has been languishing for a bicycle like her friends have. Eugene is supposed to go to the Chess Club meeting but still hasn't done so. Israel's raid on Jordan in which 42 were killed has cost her American aid. Bobo Olson won the World's Middleweight Championship vacated by Ray Roinson when he defeated Randy Turpin. 

Oct 21 An all time record high of 77.4° was set here yesterday. Bill Hutcheson is dead at 79.

Oct 22 Lillian got drapes for our room $25. and curtains for the living room $5. Eugene visited the chess club at school and played three games. He won one and adjourned two. Mayor Impelliteri was ruled off the ballot by the state Supreme Court on the ground he had too few valid petitions for his independent nomination.

Oct 23 Home from work Lillian and Sylvia went to the dentist. Lillian needed no work, but Sylvia has three cavities $17. The U.S. will build the first atom plant for industry. Two refugee scientists Dr Fritz Lippmann and Dr Hans Krebs received the 1953 Nobel Prize for Medicine & Physiology jointly.

Oct 24 Sylvia had an attack in the early morning ... A Yugoslav sailor about to be deported fractured Bob Thompson's skull with a blow from a lead pipe at the Federal House of Detention. 1456 have been ousted from U.S. jobs for security reasons in four months of the Eisenhower security program. Twenty have been suspended at the radar project on suspicion of subversion.

10/11-10/17/53

Oct 11 Sunday We had a gathering for Sylvia. Mom and pop, Lil, Harry and the kids, Sam & Molly and Freda came. Sylvia got a camera dress and several blouses. We played cards for a couple of hours. Sylvia and Susan entertained by reading a story with pictures to illustrate the text. Peggy drew colorful pictures. Eugene romped with the kids before he went to a patrol leader meeting.

Oct 12 Frieda slept over and left after breakfast. Sylvia had lunch at Joan Luskin's house then they roller skated. Eugene went over to the park after lunch with Lillian.

Oct 13 Yugoslavs continued to demonstrate and beat a U.S. Aide and others who sought to get U.S. news bulletins in protest against the projected ceding of Trieste Zone A to Italy. Longshoremen fought with police as the rivalry between Ryan and A.F.L. men continued. British Guiana unionists struck in protest against the suspension of their government. Delbert Clark is dead at 53. Lillian read Pearl Buck's "Kinfolk" & Fritz Peters "The World Next Door".

Oct 14 Eugene played football with Larry. Sylvia went shopping to Alexanders for a scarf for Carol Schinkler's birthday.

Oct 15 Ten Army radar aides have been suspended as "security risks". McCarthy claims they are members of a spy ring linked to the "Rosenbergs". Communist lecturers succeeded in persuading  only 10 of 500 Chinese POW's to change their minds and decide to be repatriated. The others showed great hostility to the "explainers". Sylvia played miniature golf with her girl friends after school at a new Jerome Ave course.

Oct 16 Eugene left on an overnight camping trip to Alpine this afternoon. He will return Sunday afternoon. Sylvia went to a supper party at Carol Schinkler's house for her birthday. Some of the boys wanted to play "spin the bottle" but Mrs Schinkler did not permit it. Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Chuck Dressen Manager of the pennant winning Dodgers for the last two years has quit them when refused a 2- year contract.

Oct 17 Mom and pop took us to Lil & Harry's. Peggy, whom we bought a toy walking and talking dog complained that Susan's painting set was better. Sylvia and Susan rode the bicycles and played together. An explosion on the aircraft carrier Leyte off Boston cost over 30 lives and injured over forty.

10/4-10/10/53

Oct 4 Florence Sabin is dead at 81  and Sir Arnold Box at 69. Lil and the kids went over to Sam & Molly where Eugene & Sam watched the World Series, Sylvia read and Lil & Molly chatted.

Oct 5 At the movies Saturday, the kids got into a scuffle as usual forcing Lil to take Eugene and change their seats. Sylvia bore the brunt of the bawling out which came later.

Oct 6  The Yankees became the first team to win five successive World Series. Second year man Billy Martin's hit in the ninth inning won. He broke the record for hits in a six game series with 12 and hit .500. Friedrich Wolf is dead at 65.

Oct 7 Sylvia bought stars to give to the good children on the lines she monitors. Mom and pop came over to have supper with us. Then Lil and I went to the P.A. meeting at "Science" where we saw how two classes are conducted. One was on the Techniques of Public Discussion where the pupils gave thier views on the Admission of Communist China to the UN. The other was Physics where the steam engine was discussed.

Oct 8 Six year old Bobby Greenlease, kidnapped and ransomed for $600,000 was found dead in a grave. Two of his three abductors have been caught. 

Oct 9 Sylvia birthday James Paul Mitchell, business man was appointed Sec'y of Labor to replace Martin Durkin, resigned. Nigel Bruce is dead at 58 and Lord Strabalgi at 67.

Oct 10 Sylvia went downtown with her troop to see "Little Boy Lost" at the Rivoli. However, she and a friend found the rest of the troop had left when they got to the subway so they went roller skating. British troops were sent to British Guiana where a left wing government was stripped of its powers. This regime had been led by Dr Cheddi Jagan and his American born wife. Yugoslavs stoned British American & French embassies in protest against an announced decision to give over Zone A of the Free territory of Trieste to Italy. I read Dr Overstreets "The Mature Man [sic]".

Dad clearly wrote "The Mature Man", but the book was "The Mature Mind".