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MR JOHN ELLISON
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From: David crystal k 30 miss
News Department
Date: 12 June 1991
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I understand that a lunch has been arranged for 11 July.
Lord Caithness may find it useful to glance at the following
CV before meeting Mr Ellison:
Northern years:
1949/51 Birkenhead News (edited Bebington News)
1951/53 Liverpool Evening Express
1953/55 Manchester Evening News: edit. Prompter Amateur
theatre column
1955/56 Daily Mail Manchester
1956/58 Daily Mail London
Fleet Street:
1958/59 Edited Hickey Column, Daily Express
& 61/63
1963/73 D. Express Bureau Chief, Paris covering de Gaulle/
continuing British Euro bids/also Brussels Netherlands
N. Africa: plus Bardot, Rainiers show biz etc.
1973/74 Bureau Chief New York: travelled in US etc political and
social coverage. Daily New York column "This is America".
Foreign Editor, D. Express, plus assignments Mid East,
Iran, fall of Shah, Southern Africa/Rhodesia-Zimbabwe:
South Africa from 1977 onwards. The Israel conundrum:
Hong Kong, the Koreas and Japan and continuing
Euro-coverage to include Brussels, E.
1974
1990
Union.
Europe, Soviet
1982/90 Assitant Editor, D. Express including home and foreign
news. Continued writing assignments roughly as above. Early retirement and took up some modest overseas strings: Hong Kong, South Africa plus contributing to Daily Express.
David Crystal
David Crystal
News Department