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This week, on his way home from a get-acquainted tour of Asia, new External Affairs Minister Percy Spender was bringing a policy puzzler in the case of John James Trench-Thiedemann of Ceylon. Eurasian Trench-Thiedemann had been refused entry to Australia, presumably on the basis of his dusky appearance. But his full brother, Duke, was admitted two years ago, has been living happily in the Melbourne suburb of Saint Kilda with his wife and two children. At Colombo two weeks ago, John Trench-Thiedemann was one of a mixed-blood deputation which waited on Spender, to ask that...
...easiest way to start solving a jigsaw puzzle is to take the straight-edged pieces that obviously belong on the outside. But even when these are in place all the puzzler may have is a few clouds hanging in a sky. He won't know whether he is working on a picture of a country wedding or a shipwreck...
...puzzler, Johnston admitted. He argued that of the two possible ways of meeting the costs (out of general revenues or from payroll taxes), the payroll taxes are the lesser evil. But he recommended that increase in the rate of such taxes should be imposed slowly and spread over a period of time...
...carefully deepening his voice and having all companions faint, while he slips on Superman clothes. Superman's monologues must be cut to a minimum, suspense maintained by worrying listeners as to whether he will get to the rescue in time. The war has faced the program with another puzzler: Why hasn't Superman joined the Army? Most plausible answers: as Clark Kent, he couldn't pass the physical exam; and besides, the U.S. Army can win without his help. Superman now does his bit by foiling Axis agents, rescuing troop trains and Clippers, smashing sabotage rings...
Beethoven: Grosse Fugue, Op. 133 (Adolf Busch and his Chamber Players; Columbia; 4 sides). A puzzler even to musical savants of the 1820s, the granite-surfaced "grand fugue" which Beethoven composed as a finale to his String Quartet B Flat so irritated audiences that his publisher persuaded him to write a simpler finale, issue his pet fugue separately. Now recognized as a titan among fugues, it comes to life eloquently, pulsingly in the first album of Violinist Adolf Busch's reorganized chamber musicians, who made their U.S. debut earlier this year (TIME, March...