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DROP-OUTS’ STORY A REAL CLIFF-HANGER
David Ellis DAVID Gatward-Ferguson delights in telling people, particularly his fellow Brits, that he’s a drop-out. “Wife’s one, too,” he cheerfully adds. “I dropped-out of marketing computer systems, and Amanda dropped-out from being an accountant. “And now we spend our days in the most beautiful terrain in the world. Fellow Poms turn greener than the […]
THOUGHTS OF ROMANCE A WILD CALAMITY
david ellis STUDENTS of America’s Wild West are as mystified today as ever they were about the real relationship between two of the most-opposite characters to walk the boardwalks together of legendary Deadwood – the suave former lawman Wild Bill Hickok and part-time hooker and some-time drinking mate, Martha Jane Burke, better known to […]
ON TRACK TO MT MISERY, MOAS AND POSSUM PIES
David Ellis WHEN the New Zealand government decided in 1883 to build a railway line between Christchurch on the South Island’s east coast and Greymouth on the west, many of its ministers mused openly about an appropriately slap-up celebration to which to invite themselves for the line’s completion. But even though it was just 224km […]
ON TRACK TO MT MISERY, MOAS AND POSSUM PIES
David Ellis WHEN the New Zealand government decided in 1883 to build a railway line between Christchurch on the South Island’s east coast and Greymouth on the west, many of its ministers mused openly about an appropriately slap-up celebration to which to invite themselves for the line’s completion. But even though it was just 224km […]
ON TRACK TO MT MISERY, MOAS AND POSSUM PIES
David Ellis WHEN the New Zealand government decided in 1883 to build a railway line between Christchurch on the South Island’s east coast and Greymouth on the west, many of its ministers mused openly about an appropriately slap-up celebration to which to invite themselves for the line’s completion. But even though it was just 224km […]
RAIL MAN’S HOTEL PROVES A ROCKY RIDE
david ellis FOR a highly successful businessman, the American railway magnate Louis Hill could be remarkably indecisive. But he had a quick eye for a dollar, and it was this that generally saved him from his own indecisiveness. Thus in the early 1900s his quest for the greenback saw Mr Hill turn his attention to […]
RAIL MAN’S HOTEL PROVES A ROCKY RIDE
david ellis FOR a highly successful businessman, the American railway magnate Louis Hill could be remarkably indecisive. But he had a quick eye for a dollar, and it was this that generally saved him from his own indecisiveness. Thus in the early 1900s his quest for the greenback saw Mr Hill turn his attention to […]
RAIL MAN’S HOTEL PROVES A ROCKY RIDE
david ellis FOR a highly successful businessman, the American railway magnate Louis Hill could be remarkably indecisive. But he had a quick eye for a dollar, and it was this that generally saved him from his own indecisiveness. Thus in the early 1900s his quest for the greenback saw Mr Hill turn his attention to […]
ARIZONA’S LONDON BRIDGE NOT FALLING DOWN
David Ellis SOME more-cynical Americans had a bit of a chuckle when they heard that business magnate Robert McCulloch was buying the 140-year old London Bridge, and shipping it from England to Arizona to attract tourists to a new development he was planning for the middle of the desert. But they should have […]
ARIZONA’S LONDON BRIDGE NOT FALLING DOWN
David Ellis SOME more-cynical Americans had a bit of a chuckle when they heard that business magnate Robert McCulloch was buying the 140-year old London Bridge, and shipping it from England to Arizona to attract tourists to a new development he was planning for the middle of the desert. But they should have […]
