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1007 West Oregon
Urbana, Illinois
October 24, 1956

Dear folks,
Well, the big days are coming soon now. Jack has his qualifying on Friday and Saturday (or is it Thursday and Friday?) of next week. I also have a big test, the mid-semester physics exam, which will be tough indeed, on Wednesday of next week in the evening. I shall be hard at work preparing for it this week.

At last the leaves are falling in numbers here, and many are being burned in the gutters. I don't know what has happened to the street cleaning. Last year they put it into effect, meaning that car owners had to get off certain sides of the whole street on certain days and nights, which caused much grumbling and a new university parking set-up. Now the streets seem quite dirty. We park in the yard so have eluded the current parking problem, which is severe. Many students have taken to bicycles, and traffic is quite heavy. 

We enclose the pictures we think you asked for. You can keep them in any case.

Jack has been improving the hi-fi lately, after waiting a long time. Through our friend who works at Allied Radio in Chicago (Davis) we bought a new speaker and phonograph cartridge (reduced rates). There is a crack in our present speaker which will, in time, cross the face of the speaker and destroy it, so it was a matter of time. The old cartridge was getting troubles too. The main incentive to improve the cartridge came when we acquired Boris Goudonov last Christmas. The singer who plays Boris, Boris Christoff, has as a dominant frequency in his