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Bach demurred, gracefully. But the King of Prussia's poser had roused the King of Fugue's dander: afterwards, in Leipzig, Bach went to work. He elaborated Frederick's theme into a monumental score which he named Musikalisches Opfer (Musical Offering) and sent it to the King, with a felicitous dedication: "To Your Majesty is proffered herewith in humblest obedience a musical offering, whose most excellent portion originates from your noble hand...
...lost to younger, less stodgy Manhattan museums, notably the Museum of Modern Art in its shiny new blue glass home (TIME, May 22). There, instead of at the Metropolitan, will open next week the show of Renaissance masterpieces which Italy sent last year to the San Francisco Fair. Another poser: to adjust shrinking income from endowments to heavy fixed charges that brought a cumulative deficit of $11,000 in the past two years...
...flood of sanctimonious protest. For a question accepted, Canada Dry pays $5, and $10 more plus the Encyclopedia Britannica if it stumps the experts. The Britannica prize was added last month. First winner, on Oct. 24, was Prisoner 12,973, Connecticut State Prison. 12,973's poser: "This man was an Assemblyman, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Governor, President of the United States." The man: Theodore Roosevelt. Guest Louis Untermeyer and the others said Franklin Roosevelt...
...other nations have emphatically joined the armaments race and among military men the poser is: "Will Hitler fight when it becomes definitely certain that he is losing that race?" The dynamics of dictatorship are such that few who have studied Fascism and its leaders can envision sexless, restless, instinctive Adolf Hitler rounding out a mellow middle age in his mountain chalet at Berchtesgaden while a satisfied German people drink beer and sing folk songs. There is no guarantee that the have-not nations will go to sleep when they have taken what they now want from the haves. To those...
...announcing the two-price system by which farm surpluses will be distributed to undernourished Americans, Secretary Wallace has produced a plan in which farmers are no longer the main beneficiaries. Timed to forestall the mounting criticism of the AAA, the program presents a poser for die-hard critics, for it includes the good points of every sound program suggested in recent years...