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Boston happens to be blessed with two major sellers of custom built equipment, the Radio Shack and Lafayette Radio. These have intricate machines that can demonstrate the fidelity of hundreds of various combinations of equipment, and the buyer can take his pick. Most of this equipment is made by small manufactures. Pricing is so competitive that a five dollar difference in cost can easily be detected by careful listening. Prices of these custom combinations range from $90 up to several hundred. Prices of comparable standard phonographs, and few are comparable, go from about $200 to over a thousand...
...died in a shack...
...only exception to the genuinely poor quality of the production is the fine work done by one Frederick Fox who has done both the set and lighting. The interior of a one room shack is completely believable, and the lighting effects are in the highest dramatic taste...
Come Out? An hour and a half later, the bloodhounds set up a great bass clamor outside a potato shack on the farm of ex-Moonshiner Turner's father. Hogjaw, who likes to boast that he can outrun a horse, was right with the dogs, but the main body of cops all saw fit to maintain a respectful distance and await eventualities. Hogjaw pulled his gun, fired six shots into the shack and bravely bawled: "Come out, you sons of bitches...
...lent the hospital an electrocardiograph. Last week the partners installed a $5,000, hospital-sized X-ray machine to replace a portable model they had been using. Come spring, they will start building an office of their own to replace their present rented quarters (which replaced a wooden shack where Dr. Reeves had to practice at first). It will be big enough to serve as an outpatient clinic. In it will be still more modern equipment, notably diathermy and basal metabolism machines. ("With those," says Dr. Reeves, "we'll have all the essentials.") Finally, there will be facilities...