My favorite programs were ones that were funny or mysterious or how everybody good was helped and the bad ones were taught their lesson. Here were my favorites on the radio:

• Meet Corliss Archer
• The Shadow
• Dragnet
• The Great Gildersleeve
• Sam Spade
• The Adventures of Mr. & Mrs. North
• People Are Funny
• The Beulah Show
• Let's Pretend
• Suspense
• Our Miss Brooks
• The Quiz Kids
• Baby Snooks
• Fibber McGee and Mollie
• My Friend Irma
• Mr. Keene, Tracer of Lost Persons
• The news and about flying saucers
• The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

Here were my favorites on TV:

• Henry Aldrich
• This is Your Zoo
• Arthur Godfrey
• Mr. Imagination
• Kukla, Fran and Ollie
• I Remember Mama, with Dagmar

I liked all the comedians who made people laugh a lot-Joan Davis and Bob Hope and Fred Allen; also Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy and Rochester and Jack Benny and Groucho Marx and Eddie Cantor.

The Sears store was next to WCBM . That's where we bought all the evergreens. In front of WCBM was the first shaft in memory of Christopher Columbus in this country.

I went up there a lot with Mommy. She was writing the story being told by one person mostly, with the little songs in the story about the music and poetry. It was a little old for children.

Now she writes it mostly for children and young people. Mr. Roeder helped her a lot. He was very, very kind to us.

I took piano lessons in Baltimore right after we got here. Miss Flora Patti Evans (her father named her after Patti, the opera star) gave me lessons.

Short Concerto. Music by Linda

I played in a recital at the Sears Community House, and I wrote out a program to remind Daddy about it. It was in the spring of 1950, in May. Some of my school friends came with me to hear me play. Valerie was one of them.

Miss Evans came to see me later on when I got sick and had to go to the hospital. Sandra came to see me at my house.

I began to have stomach aches a lot in the spring too. But I still had lots of fun.

We went to see my aunt and my cousins one day again in the spring. I was almost eight and one-half years old. We played ping-pong in the club basement of the new home. My cousins, Barbara and JoAnn, bought me a squirt gun. I never had one before. It was lots of fun. I squirted Mommy all over her legs with cold water, and she jumped.

When we went to the zoo in Washington in Rock Creek Park, I had a bad tummy ache. Mommy wouldn't let me have any of the popcorn or soft drinks. She made me eat all soft food and warm milk.

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