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Besides being tardy, the Council suggestions are also incomplete. The code for indoor meetings is clear and well-considered, but the Council has not set down specifically where and why a stumper may stump out of doors. The Council has said what general considerations should guide University Hall, but it has said nothing about particular steps and streets and deltas. There could be much unpleasantness if the Faculty has only a vague basic policy to back up its permissions and denials...
...battle, new dangers begin to face the ardent politician with no rules to guide him. Last Spring a "Save the Peace" group found itself in trouble twice because it was not sure of University Hall policy. And as activity heightens between now and November 2, more than one stumper may not know until too late that he has waved his flag out of political bounds or that his slogans have plastered the wrong wall...
...well-worked theme. Master of Ceremonies Bert Parks telephones to people chosen at random across the U.S., asks the listener to identify the popular tune then being played. If he can do that he wins a nominal prize and qualifies for a chance at the Mystery Tune, a stumper that sounds tantalizingly familiar. The most recent: Get Out of the Wilderness, vintage 1850, with a marked similarity to The Old Gray Mare. If a listener identifies the Mystery Tune, he wins the fantastic largesse of radio. (Stop the Music prizes have averaged close to $20,000 in bonds and merchandise...
...played apiece called Rudepôema ("Savage Poem") which Villa-Lobos had intended to be both a portrait of the pianist and the most difficult piano work ever composed. Whether or not its brilliantly wham-banging measures actually portrayed mild-looking Mr. Rubinstein, Rudepôema sounded like a stumper for any virtuoso...
...Himself an amateur versifier and composer, Frederick asked his famed visitor to improvise on a royal theme. Bach forthwith obliged, extemporized a three-voice fugue. Frederick, delighted but still royal, thereupon set a more difficult task: development of his original theme into a six-part fugue. That was a stumper, even for the 62-year-old master; to make things worse, Frederick wished the assignment worked out in his presence...