I'm in the process of filling in back entries from my old journal. This is a long and tedious process, and I'm not doing it entirely in order, as I'm leaving some of the more complicated entries (mostly those with photos) for last. So if you read back and wonder at large gaps and apparently out-of-order entries, that's what's going on.
This one's pretty well explained by the newspaper caption from the Hartford Courant. What it doesn't mention is that I won a little record player; it was only big enough for 45's, but it played at three speeds, and also had an AM radio built in. I'm sure the original of this is in our photo albums somewhere, but I like the newspaper copy.