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...Last week Mr. Mackenzie, who used to be a druggist in P. T. Barnum's home town of Bethel, Conn., was reported to have received $6,900 per year as lobbyist for McKesson & Robbins, the drug firm of Crook Philip Musica-Coster...
Cheese and Hair. In 1884, the year when Frank Donald Coster (according to his listing in Who's Who) was born in Washington, D. C., Philip Musica, an Italian immigrant boy, was playing in the streets of Manhattan's "Little Italy," where his father Antonio had a barber shop. Antonio made enough money to open a store where he sold cheese imported from Italy. Philip grew up to run the importing end of the business. He ran it so well that the Musicas prospered, moved to the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn and there became leaders of Italian...
...Philip Musica was convicted of bribing customs weighers to mark down the weights of his cheese invoices and was fined $5,000 and sentenced to a year in Elmira Reformatory. The "Cheese Case" made a small flurry in the newspapers the same year that Frank Donald Coster (according to Who's Who) took his Ph.D. at Heidelberg...
...University now, apparently there were tremendous obstacles in the path of its far-seeing founders. "Even so great a man as Francis Parkman," says Spalding, "an artist in his own sphere, is said to have been fond of exclaiming in Corporation meetings, after reading the annual budget, "Musica delenda...
...clubs of Harvard and Radcliffe and presenting instrumental and vocal selections will be given at 8.15 o'clock this evening in Paine Hall. The program will include Moxart's "Piano Sonata for Four Hands," the "Stabat Mater" of Thomson, Bach's "Sonata for Flute and Clavier," Hindemith's "Frau Musica," and several other selections...