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...funds on the hard-drinking frontier. Editors had to coddle other advertisers by playing up their names and wares in the news columns, a practice that hardly died with the old West. Politicians advertised occasionally. "An election was harvesttime," said Harry Ellington Brook, who put out the Quijotoa, Ariz., Prospector. "There was a graduated rate, running from $10 for a Coroner to $250 for a Sheriff. The price charged included a commensurate amount of favorable mention...
Each time the judge strode into the court, the dark-haired defendant bowed respectfully in best Canadian courtroom tradition. Viola MacMillan, 63, has had occasion of late to learn about such legal amenities. A shrewd, if unlikely-looking prospector who amassed a fortune in sundry Canadian mining ventures, tiny (5 ft., 100 Ibs.) Viola has been under government investigation ever since a mercurial trading binge on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 1964 left investors in her Windfall Oils & Mines Ltd. holding an empty sack. Called "the Queen Bee" by mining men, who elected her president of the Prospectors and Developers...
...ideas practically all his life. As a boy in Beverly Hills, "he just grew up with a book in his hand," says his mother, Mrs. Marie F. Burns, 76. His father died when John was a year old, and his mother subsequently remarried three times-once to a gold prospector who had been in the Klondike. Gardner recalls listen ing raptly to stories of the Gold Rush. "In each," he says, "the central theme was constant-riches left untapped...
...demand for psaltery players and country fiddlers was not exactly booming. For two years, Beers and his family lived in a prospector's log cabin in New Year, Mont., a ghost town where, according to one of their songs, "the people are wild and the coyotes are tame." Their only food was wild game that Beers hunted in the mountains. When possible, they stuffed their 150-lb. psaltery, dulcimer, fiddles, banjos, guitars, buckskin drums and camping equipment into and on top of their Volkswagen and toured the mountain towns and country fairs. Then, when the fad for folk singing...
Born into a dull, grey Victorian world, Chichester became a loner in a home dominated by a clergyman father who "squashed any enthusiasm," and in private schools where the punishment for a misdemeanor was a whipping. So in later life-after careers as a sheep-shearer, gold prospector and land speculator in New Zealand and a mapmaker in England-Chichester was struck with sea fever. Though he thought "the whole prospect of the Atlantic so appalling that I can't face it," he nonetheless thrilled to "the moan of the wind in the rigging," loved drawing "deep, mad breaths...