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You have one of the last tube radios built by GE from the mid to late '60's. In fact, GE made a solid state clock radio that looked just like this one. There's probably not that many wax paper caps in this radio. By the '60's, they were either using disc or mylar caps and these don't give much trouble. Also by this time, companies were using a component combination in the audio circuit consisting of several caps and resistors. These eliminated the individual parts count on these later radios. All I'd do would be to replace the electrolytic filter can and any tubular caps that you find.
Another problem that these later GE's suffered from is a condition known as "silver migration" in the IF transformers. The symptom is usually that the radio will play for a few minutes; then, the sound will become filled with static. These IF's can be repaired by removing the internal capacitors and adding external silver mica capacitors. It's a tedious job; so, consider yourself lucky if your radio works OK as is. Other than the IF transformer problems, these radios played very well.
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