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...local state forest, where you will sleep under the stars, share your Army rations with our insect hosts, and observe our training day, which runs from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. But don't bring any party paraphernalia. A pup tent gets kind of crowded when a hi-fi set and a couple of deck chairs are installed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 23, 1961 | 6/23/1961 | See Source »

...chest, a bottle of gin, a bottle of bourbon, a bottle of blended whisky, two deck chairs, four books about the stock market, a rack of record albums, a set of golf clubs, crab nets, a Coleman lamp for flounder fishing, a football, two tennis rackets, playing cards, a hi-fi set, beach sandals, a straw hat-and a set of military uniforms. Then, mixing himself an oldfashioned, he settled down to begin his two weeks' summer training with the Louisiana Air National Guard's 159th Fighter Group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Louisiana: A Matter of Morale | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

...executive in the Erwin Wasey, Ruthrauff & Ryan advertising agency, Marcia will be married in a singlesteeple, knotty-pine chapel built especially for her wedding on her family's Woodstock, Ill., estate. Seating only 17 people, the chapel, which is a remodeled pump shed, has a built-in hi-fi system for organ music and a huge picture window opposite the altar so that guests sitting on the lawn will see the ceremony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Society: The Marriage-Go-Round | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

...manic items. Frey's firm has sold 4,200,000 records in the past four years, grossed $12 million. Customers for Frey's cacophony are children, camera fans who want authentic background sound for their home movies, and-most of all-the "pingpong trade," as diskmen call hi-fi buffs who delight in dramatizing stereo by playing such demonstration recordings as the sounds of a pingpong match. "Look," explains Frey. "A guy goes out and gets himself a Superduper Mark IV amplifier and what the mooch wants to listen to is something to prove to everybody that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Noise Merchant | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...about him, since he has tenaciously guarded his private life from view. He and his wife (he has two daughters, both at college) live in a big and ancient house on Brattle Street in Cambridge, have a summer place in New Hampshire. Land likes to relax with his large hi-fi collection, occasionally plays tennis, is a fast and retentive reader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Businessman-Scientist In Focus: EDWIN HERBERT LAND | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

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