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...first group of casual listeners, then you will be easy to satisfy. The special combinations--package, amplifier, tuner, turntable and speakers--represent excellent buys. Clip out newspaper advertisements and then visit a few stores to see and listen. The turntable--usually a Garrard--and receivers will be decidedly mediocre. The real difference will be in the speakers. Don't go near any combination system with what look and sound like $20 speakers. Sound from a stereo can only be as good as the signal from the weakest component in the system; it's a waste of money to get decent...
Died. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, 73, polar explorer who accompanied Robert Falcon Scott on his fatal Antarctic expedition in 1911, later described in chilling detail (The Worst Journey in the World) a side trip he and two .companions made to find emperor penguin eggs; in London...
...colonial days, Kentuckians (then Virginians) with a whisky taste had trouble chasing away the demon rum. The rum-makers once put through a law boosting the legal price to $15 a half pint. The Bourbon County grand jury even indicted James Garrard, a Baptist minister who later became Governor of the state, for illegal whisky selling. But by 1789, tenacious Bourbon County distillers had finally given corn likker an old Kentucky home. Though ten years ago bourbon was only 13% of total domestic whisky sold, last year it was 47%. Last week bourbon reached another pinnacle: in nationwide newspaper...
Behind the institute was its founder and sole member so far, Schenley Industries, whose President Lewis S. Rosenstiel has even more urgent feelings about bourbon than did the Rev. Garrard. Schenley reportedly holds 60% to 70% of all the old whisky in the U.S. (most of it bourbon), mainly because it over-stockpiled during the Korean war on the mistaken theory that a shortage was in store...
...gadgets on a chromium-plated base"), Capehart (which "holds 20 discs and turns them over automatically") and the Meissner ("offers high fidelity. . . . Except for its cabinets, which are elegant, it claims no special features"). FORTUNE did not mention the newly imported London phonograph, which has the same record changer (Garrard) as the Fisher and lightweight pickup, but costs much more ($1,495 and $2,500) than the Fisher...