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PICTURE BY JOHN COLE.

Elegant listening: Cabinet £22 1s., amplifier £42, r›cord-player £19, tunor £28 17. 6d., loudspeaker complate £23, total £132 18v. 6d.

by Helen

Surke

Fruit for dessert.

Melon delight

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the juker from the par aver strawberries, Chill will ready

10 serve. Just before serving All the notches with the whipped

1 Sweet melan, 41b grapes, 1 cream. slice water melun. 11⁄2 cup

strawberries, 1 cup Whiped Pear meringue

cream, sugar.

suyor,

pears, 1 tablespoons grated letnon rind, 2 rag whites,

a cup custor sugar.

Cut the berries in half It large in size, sprinkle with a little sugar and allow to stand in the refrigerator for a few hours. Cut

Peel and core the pears the melon crowise in half-inch

and alleen and remove seeds, Peel place them in a baking dish. Fill and notch the outer edges to each centre with one tablespoon form pobits. Poel grapes, eut in sugar mixed with grated lemon hulf and remove seals. Pile the rind. Add enough. water grapes and water melon ent to balk in the centre of the melon ring. Put half a berry on each puint of the melon allee and

WOTAN

THE

WEEK-END

WILL YOU GO,

FOR ME?

YESTERDAY!

PETUNIA

он

VERY

WELL

+

If you want to hear

Toscanini's watch tick..

LTI-FI

-

H high-fidelity equipment is the best

in radio and record-playing; just that. It makes the sound from ordinary radio sets seem as if the sets were wrapped in cotton wool and covered with a tin can. So why not have hi-fi? Like a lot of people, I had been scared off by hi-fi-owning friends.

I

explained it to all ( manufacturer:---

"50 far as I can tell, hi- costs the earth, has to be atlerd- |ed by a full-time expert with a portable soldering fron, needs a separate room draped with vel- vel eurtains, and is really only for people who know a micro- farad when they see one and want to hea: Toscanini's watch ticking when he's craducting the Eroica" 1 said. Oven

moisten the bottom of the dish and bake unthi tender in a moderate oven, Kunove from the oven and cover each with a meringue made with the sty beaten egg whites and the easter sugar, Keturn to ʼn slow and cantine baking until Imeringue is set and browned.

Raspberry whip

"Furthermore, it has to be (ployed at full blast and listened

to frun one special spot."

He was very decent about 1. really. He Just

passed

I cup raspberries, la cup cas- fù cuj of tea and said: "No."

tor sure, 1 egg white and a few

Į cheerles or wldte grapes,

Wash fruit

ти

drain

του

No velvet

| thoroughly. Place all the In-

don't, it appears, need gredients except the eberries or u soldering fron, you dun's grapes into a large bowl and need a velvet-draped room, you beat for about dve minutes, (don't need to spend a fortune, Serve in tall glasses and top and you don't need to know with cherries or grapes.

voli from an amp.

GAMBOLS

('LL HAVE TO WASH)

AND SHAVE

I CANT FIND)

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by BILL CATER

They are made to be linked The only way to decide what with simple plug-at-each-end to buy and how much to spend cables: if you buy all the bits is to go to a hi-A dealer and from one maker he will supply ask him to demonstrate different

working. Ask simple instructions for plugging equipment them together and if you buy pilvice--and then go to another

various sources the dealer and get his advice.

bits from

dealer will explain or do it.

Simplest

If is simply a way of reproducing broadcast or record- ed sound more faithfully than the ordinary radio set or player TN ta simplest form this set can do.

IN up can cost as Hule as £75

One

to house the differ This not a knock at the Cabinets bread-and-butter radio. A set ent pleces can add £15 to £30. custing £10, £20, or £30 doesn't Why not spend the money on pretend to be as good as £100 a radiogram, with all the bits worth of bi-f equipment, any in one neat box? more than a family saltam pre- much better value for your reason is that you get tends to be a Rolls.

money by buying the bits and stringing them together. Again, this isn't the fault of the radiu manufacturers, many of whom make hi-fl equipment too. It is the result of purchase lax.

There are two kinds of hl-A: monaural (it means "one- cared") and stereo. For stereo you need two loudspeakers apart. The difference spaced Between monaural and stereo is like the 'difference between ordinary flat-screen Alms and 3-D.

HI-A equipment comes In separate pieces; usually five for

a basle inonaural radiu and re- cord-playing system the radio tuner that selects your stations, the record player, control unit, amplifter and speaker.

by Barry Appleby

MY SHOES AND WHERE

ARE MY (CLEAN SOCKS?

SHALL I WEAR MY COAT OR JUST A SCARF 3, (WILL THIS (HAT DO?.

Barry Appleby

TODAY

(TIRED DEAR?

MMMM

DARLING, I ONLY ASKED YOU TO GO NEXT DOOR WITH A MESSAGE

Buy the different bits needed for a radiogram each in its own Title box and you pay no taxi un some of them. Buy them Logether in the same box and you pay tax on the lot.

How much should you spend? It all depends en how hi you want your to be. Equipment casting £170 to £200 will be even more realistic, more falth-i ful to the original sound,

LONDON

his

DESIGNED BY TOM LAM, DRAWN BY ROY CASTLE

1 Room divider with seat on one aldo, music on the other,

Note that turntable, amplifier, and contrei unit are la, one nabinsk, spanker and record storage in another, separato plece, to prevent distortion of the sound,

2 Floating-on-air look: Two cabinets are mounted clear of

wall with strip-lighting behind for decorative effect. Eath...... box le roughly 20" wide, 24" high, 44". Jong.

Blacked walte: Speaker, record storage, and generat storage unite fixed: turntable and control unit can bo wheeled about linked to rent hy Box.

Do-it-yourself types can build addicts declare that it is as much superior to monaural hi-l as their own cabinets: the various moal is to the old wind-up units fi in very timply.

Or you can have the equin- Gramophone.

ment built in to cupboards, But It costs about half as book-cases or wall Axtures: much again as monaural equip- there's no need to have bits of ment of similar quality, because radio all round the roem, joined you have to have two of almost by a snake-pit of flex. everything.

Again, the hi-f dealer is the When you've made your man to cenault so that every- mont. This has now parsed cabinets from some quite hand results. ISTEN, too, to stereo equip cholce, you cam pick

your thing is placed to get the best the fun-and-games stage of re- some ploces now

Go ahead and see if you cords of italns hurtling rough through the hi- dealer. Or can hear Toscanini's watch. your drawing-room, and mony you can have them tailor-made.

-London Exprete Survice),

Addicts

available

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