Word: posers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quiz program, for Chocolate Products Co. (syrup), over a CBS California network 10 to 10:30 a.m. P.S.T. Saturdays : Stillicious Kids' Quizaroo. Sample poser: Shirley Temple is an ancient Greek ruin. True or false...
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...