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Milky Way. In Excelsior, W.Va., where the hills sometimes go straight up. Farmer Henry Young's cow fell out of a pasture, was killed...
Diego Maria Conception Juan Nepo-muceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez, 58, better known as Painter Diego Rivera, glorified revolution in his murals. Now he turns out rousing nudes for night-club walls, and full-length appreciations of Mexican society beauties. Through Excelsior's columnist Tibon, Rivera recently revealed an earlier devotion to women which was even more consuming...
...very day of the new President's first call for volunteers, Sickles resigned his seat, enlisted as a private. A few months later he raised, singlehanded, New York's "Excelsior Brigade," and became, by Lincoln's order, its colonel. By war's end he was a major general...
Baedeker Updated. Officers who had been in Cologne before ticked off the list of things gone. The Opera House, the rows of medieval gabled houses, the Dom and Excelsior hotels, the great Rhine bridges, the little cafes and haunts, all destroyed...
Mexico City's conservative newspaper Excelsior ran a daily polemic against the Big Three, topped off by an anonymous psychiatrist who diagnosed Rivera and Sequeiros, in all the polysyllabic gobbledygook of psychiatric lingo, as absolutely nuts. Rivera, he declared, was a paranoiac operating on a 120-150 day cycle between publicity-seeking outbursts. He labeled Sequeiros as a similarly pathological disturber of the peace, and recommended as a cure that both be removed from circulation...