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Died. Arthur Christiansen, 59, longtime (1933-57) editor of the London Daily Express (circ. 4,300,000), largest Beaverbrook daily, who took command at 29, echoed the Beaver's neo-Victorian politics ("His the policy, mine the paper"), doubled circulation with splashy makeup and exhortations to "Keep the COMMON TOUCH"; of a heart attack; in Norwich, England...
...Abyssinia. He was indeed a nuisance, even to the men who hired his skill. From Lord Beaverbrook, for whom he went to work in 1927, Low exacted the promise that he could draw whatever he chose. That choice was rarely to the proprietor's Tory tastes; Low's brushwork punctured the Conservative Party, the Beaver's dreams of British Empire, and the Beaver himself. Low once depicted his boss as a witch on a broomstick, preaching "politics for child minds." When Beaverbrook urged his staff to go light on Mussolini's rape of Abyssinia, Low impudently...
...omissions, of course, were as controversial as the selections. Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still exercised their customary refusal to be in group shows; Francis Bacon is currently miffed at Beaverbrook for selling two of his paintings, and he stayed out. The judges inexplicably omitted Hans Hofmann even as Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art opened a huge admiring retrospective of his work...
...request hors concours. After that, the judges-British Art Expert Douglas Cooper, Andrew Ritchie, director of the Yale University Art Gallery, and Peter Wilson, chairman of Sotheby's, the London art auctioneers-did their heroic, committee-like best. One prize went to the immaculate realist Alex Colville, like Beaverbrook a native of New Brunswick, partly because-as one judge put it-"we all felt one Canadian ought to be chosen as a matter of courtesy...
...will move to London's Tate Gallery. Even in a big art center it should prove instructive. Picasso's nude and a bleak industrial landscape by British Primitive Laurence Stephen are separated not by a gulf, but by the vast sea that present-day artists venture upon. Beaverbrook's hundred provide a lively answer to an impossible question...