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[[strikethrough]] Arlin. [[/strikethrough]]
Stoughton, Mass.
23 Aug 1942.

Dear Sid:

We have been very warm and humid here for several days, — about the hottest weather we have had all summer. I pity you and hope you are where you won't get sunstruck on some sunny beach.

The radio gave out Saturday, and I had a man recommended by the Dykemans, a Clayton Hinds, come over to fix it. He has just brought it back with a new tube, a new condenser and a new resistor, or some such term, and charged $3.75. He is an employee in a Malden radio factory and has just applied to the Navy Yard for a job in defense work there as radio man, and seems pretty well versed in them. He said this old Crosley is better than the modern RCA or G.E. radios, the two latter have become cheap in workmanship in the last few years. I asked him if they would live thru the war, and he said he guessed so, but hoped the war wouldn't last too long. I asked what he thought were good for a small radio and he said the Zenith or Philco or even the Sears radio, — Silverstone, were all good.

Lena appeared about 10 AM this morning. She looks pretty well, but has a catarral cough, a sinusey thing, I should judge. She has been telling about her trip to California last year.