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Louis knew how to diagnose problems with electronics - he taught me how to carefully remove tubes from radios and TV's and test them to see if they needed to be replaced.
I have a memory of coming home from a movie one Saturday ( I might have been eight or nine years old ) and finding Louis at the dining room table, with the Admiral TV Set slid out of the Black Bakelite Case for examination.
As Louis systematically tested suspect components, I recounted the movie's plot, in no particular order, going on and on, until at some point Louis suggested that I might want to prioritize my thoughts a little - I'm sure it must have been exasperating for him to hear my rambling and out of sequence account, but he was nice to me about it.
Meanwhile the TV got fixed. This is the same TV on which the family watched for "Mutiny on the Bounty" and Ed Sullivan presents "The Beatles".
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