Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Putting fiction to shame, the McKesson & Robbins story ran the gamut from gunrunning to human hair for sale, even included a trapdoor. And at the plot's centre was one of the most incredible characters that ever left fingerprints in the sands of time-the man who moved in Wall Street as Tycoon F. Donald Coster...
Philip Musica got out of Elmira in 1910 and before long founded something called the United States Hair Co. Antonio Musica knew about hair and Philip knew a few tricks, so they began dealing in human hair which went into the towering coiffure of stylish ladies. Once more the Musicas prospered. Philip became a man-about-town, lived at the Knickerbocker Hotel, wore high heels and spats to match his trousers, palled around with people like Caruso...
Extradited to New York, Philip Musica took the whole blame, pleaded guilty to grand larceny. The rest of the Musicas dropped out of circulation. Philip stayed in the Tombs, helping the District Attorney's office with the case. "The Human Hair Mystery" got a big play in the papers of 1913, when (according to Who's Who) Frank Donald Coster was a practicing physician in New York...
...then mixed small amounts of diluted choline, a ptomaine, with the rabbits' carrots. Result: after two months six of the rabbits were cured of their lesions. After further animal work Dr. Steiner, who also teaches in Columbia's topflight medical school, hopes to try choline on human patients...
TIME takes these books seriously. As TIME sees it, poets acknowledge a responsibility which sooner or later every human being must acknowledge. That responsibility, stated in its humblest form, is to make words make sense: stated in its most ambitious form, it is to make words make complete sense. Twentieth-Century poets have had a hard time trying to make their 20th-century words make sense, but that was their responsibility. Either they could live up to it, and be poets; or pretend to live up to it, and be poetasters; or ignore it, and be poeticules...