Sandra called me "Linchester," and I called her "Sonchester." We played together in her house a lot too, and had long conversations. She had a very beautiful room, and I stayed with her one night.

She liked to put figures on stands, and she had lots of them. I told her about mine. She didn't come to see me until later on.

Mommy took us to the Academy of Sciences on Thursday nights. We looked through the telescope at the moon and the planets, and we saw educational films. Sandra and I liked this better than anything. We started to read all about the stars, and we got library books about them. We looked out of the window of Sandra's bedroom and talked about the tremendous universe. We also liked to play checkers with red and black checkers on a red and black checkerboard and Jacks too. Mommy only liked to play Chinese checkers with marbles.

We played until the end of June, and, when Sandra left to go to camp, she gave me a white leather strip to keep as a friendship present, like the chain Ford gave me when I left Urbana, except this was leather, and that was metal. We wrote to each other. She sent me letters on pretty stationery with flowers on it.

Mommy and I were at Grandmommy's a lot in the spring of 1950, from April to August. During the four months, Aunt Lorraine needed lots of help to get her restaurant started.

It was called "The Seafare." She started it in a little place, and the customers packed into it because the food was very good. Then she fell down some steps and broke her arm, and so Mommy and I helped her. We took charge of it for her. I liked to kill flies in there for her and charged five cents a piece. I also liked to go get change for the cash register and punch the keys sometimes. I ate lots of food.

When I didn't go down there with Mommy, I stayed with Eunice, Grandmommy's laundress. She did up all my dolls' clothes for me. They looked beautiful. I liked Eunice and Mary a lot. They were very good to me.

Once a week, Mommy went to the radio stations. We were writing our program together. Mommy went to the radio stations to learn how to write a radio program and how to produce it. She saw what the engineer does and learned about sound effects and proper production.

I went with her a few times. We sat together at WBAL when Mr. Rock talked about writing for radio and all the different things in the history of radio. It was very interesting. I helped her write down notes about it.

Mommy went to WFBR, and Mr. Spatz talked to the class there.

The year before, when we first came to Baltimore, Mr. Roeder helped Mommy. He was at Station WCBM. It was over the Sears Community House.

Mommy didn't like for me to listen to a lot of soap operas. That's what she called the stories when everybody falls in love with everybody and suspects everybody. She says it makes children think too many wrong thoughts. That's why she started working on the idea.

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