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Music from the 13th to 17th centuries will be feature in a concert by the Pro Musica Antiqua Ensemble of Brussels, Belgium, at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow in Sanders Theater...
Died. George E. Dietrich, 53, one of the McKesson & Robbins drug firm officers who swindled the firm out of about $11,000,000 in the late '30s; of leukemia; in Roslyn, L.I. Assistant Treasurer Dietrich (born Musica) worked with President F. Donald Coster (real name: Philip Musica) and two other brothers in the firm in the two-year embezzlement, but ratted on his brothers in court, escaped with a 2½-year prison sentence...
Russia's musica, tradition is still less than a century old: the "father" of Russian music, Michael Ivanovitch Glinka, died in 1857. Yet it already boasts some of music's most famous names-such pre-Soviet romantics as Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov. The younger Soviet composers are generally more gifted and expert than those of the U.S., less jaded than those of Western Europe. Western Europe's only living first-raters, Germany's Richard Strauss and Finland's Jan Sibelius, are aged men whose best work is already a generation...
...friendly Administration in Washington. Low taxes. And a friendly public. And what did we do with our power? On the economic side we gave this country a balloon boom that had to burst. On the moral side we produced men like Insull and Hopson and Musica, who undermined confidence in business...
...late F. Donald Coster (Philip Musica) of McKesson & Robbins always took a close personal interest in his auditors, Price, Waterhouse & Co. He first hired the firm in 1925; used their audits to get respectable banker backing; always saw that the sales and inventory records (i.e., pieces of paper) of his fictitious crude drug department were in A-1 shape...