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Rawls, Ellen Burke

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Ellen Burke Rawls is an entertainment columnist and publicist in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and her entertainment columns detail the line-up of coming events and stars at Atlantic City hotels and casinos. Her "Atlantic City" byline column appeared weekly in the Staten Island Sunday Advance from 1990 to 1995. Her Star-Ledger columns were carried in the Special Section under "Gracious Living" from 1990 to 1993 and "Summertime" from 1993 to 1994. Additionally, she did freelance articles written for The Big Apple Press in 1991 and for the New York Post under the byline, "On The Boardwalk" in 1993. Rawls wrote and followed business people in the news, whom she felt could utilize her public relations skills in publicizing their activities.