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Show if RADIO HELPS CURE SICK 4 1 SICK ? Got a radio receiving set to occupy the weary hours of lying in bed and cheer you over the bad spells. That's what many a hospital patient pa-tient Is doing nowadays, and doctors say radio has been helping them cure their cases There's Lester Picker, 16-year-old high school boy of San Diego. Cal. He's a licensed amateur. His station sta-tion is 6AJH. But he has to lie flat on his back ' while working his stallon. Ho fell ( while erecting hla aerial mast and now he Is bedridden with a broken i back His physician says tho set. which his friends finished for him is J going to speed his cure considerably Traffic Officer Jim Flynn, of New- ark, N. J., has been In bed since an accident o year ago. But he Is help- , Ing himself get well by listening In on the concerts broadcasted from tho powerful station In Newark. The remarkable feature about Flynn' set Is that the bed spring h I lies on Is his antenna. Ho resorted I to this means of catching the signals win n hospital rules forbade his hav- ing an outdoor aerial erected. Radio as a medicine. Above, Lester Les-ter I'lckor of Ban DiCgO, with Ids vsMSnnm tube ct. Below, Traffic Officer Jim Flynn f Newark. N. T . uid b's crystal set. oo |