Word: excelsior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cuban embassy last winter after Fidel Castro's bearded revolutionaries toppled the Batista regime. Written by Oscar de la Torre, Batista's Ambassador to Mexico at the time, the letter confirmed what everyone had long suspected-that Aldo Baroni, columnist for Mexico City's daily Excelsior, had taken money to say nice things about Dictator Batista. The ambassador wrote to a presidential aide in Havana: "Our friend Villaboy gave me a check for $4,000. Following instructions of the President [i.e., Batista], I endorsed the check to Senor Aldo Baroni...
Truth Can Pay. Many Mexican publishers tolerate these practices; some sell news space themselves. Advertising income is low-a full page in Excelsior (circ. 95,000) sells for $504-but the editorial columns command a fat price: one Mexico City magazine makes more from that source than from...
Extrapolation. In Venice, Italy, confused by recent changes in the U.S. flag, the Excelsior Hotel took no chances, on a Fourth of July poster painted four American Hags, two with 42 stars, two with...
...LLEWELLYN JONES, by Paul Hyde Banner (372 pp.; Scribner; $4.50), brings back the amateurish but pleasantly diverting ex-diplomat who specializes in novels (S.P.Q.R., Excelsior!) about the kind of foreign affairs that set ambassadorial medals ajingle. The latest hero to pop out of Author Bonner's undiplomatic pouch is Townsend Britton, who is on the mossy side of 50; he is tall, athletic and handsome, but his soul bears the thumbprint of his ruthless wife Edith. She forces him to resign as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium because she wants to be a Washington hostess. Eventually, Britton decides that...
Faces set in determination, the three-member delegation from the directors of the Deutsche Presse-Agentur, West Germany's largest wire service, walked out of the board meeting in Cologne's posh Hotel Excelsior Ernst and up to the trim little man who had been waiting in the lobby. The man listened to only a few words before quietly interrupting: "I gather you want...