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By the early evening of the wedding day, London's D.H. Evans should have a copy of the bridal gown in its Oxford Street window. The knock-off is the work of Ellis Bridals, which turns out copies "whenever there is a royal wedding," according to Brenda Ellis, 33...
Well, not quite. The Ellis cutters and sewers will be making use of new technology: a video-tape machine with a pause button. "When we get a good picture of Lady Di," Ellis says, "we can freeze it." Elk's reports that 200 of the copies have been ordered...
ELLIS ISLAND & OTHER STORIES by Mark Helprin Delacorte; 196 pages; $10.95
Ellis Island, the long title story, is an inspired amusement about the immigrant experience. Helprin's America is full of useful surprises, rewards and opportunities to change identities as easily as one changes socks. The protagonist, a promising and eager young writer from Eastern Europe, ricochets toward his dream...
The man who beat Jamieson is D'Ellis Kincanon, 25. Part Chickasaw Indian and wiry as a heather bush, Kincanon can tap stone all day on a pint of yogurt. His face is ecstatic, like a Sufi mystic's, as he finishes off a pier stone. "Everything works...