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CALIFORNIA A Nice Point of Law The police of Long Beach, Calif, had no doubt that Arta Christiansen died by her own hand. After threatening suicide at least half a dozen times during her one year of married life with House Painter Oswald Christiansen, she spent the evening at a bar, then went home and took a .22 rifle out of a closet. She asked Oswald to load the gun for her, and he promptly did so. She told him what she was going to do. "You haven't got the guts," he said. Then & there, she proved...
After Arta's funeral last week, cops arrested Christiansen under a state law that makes it a felony to abet a suicide. But a California court had declared such a law unconstitutional. There is no California law against suicide itself. Asked Deputy District Attorney Ted C. Sten: "How can a person be guilty of a felony as the result of aiding and abetting a deed which is not contrary...
Fisher and his staff went after the city offices charged with enforcing housing regulations, found them loaded with do-nothing political appointees. "We don't hire them," said Building Commissioner Roy T. Christiansen. "They [i.e., the Democratic machine] send them to us." The city building officials, said Reporter Fisher, "walked to the gallows with smiles on their faces. Apparently it never occurred to them that we actually would go out to the slums to compare conditions with what the inspection reports represented them...
Common Touch. But it is by his alternately nagging and praising daily bulletins that Christiansen puts his mark on the Ex-Press. Excerpts: "Such a coverage! Such splendour! Such magnificence! From Newell Rogers in Washington to Ralph Campion in Cock Fosters the heart of this paper beats strongly. . . . [But] it hurts when we miss the news.. . . The headline WIFE SITS ON TAIL OF PLANE in the Daily Mail is a better headline than [our] HOLIDAY PLANE IN SEA. . . . Why does the phrase The British taxpayer must foot the bill' appear? . . . Why not 'The taxpayer pays...
Like the masses who buy his paper, Christiansen enjoys soccer matches, boxing and dog racing. He berates his Fleet Street friends for their lack of the common touch. Says he: "You don't like these people, do you? You're out of touch with the common people." But in politics Christiansen walks the Beaverbrook line. The Express attacks the Labor Government and considers the American loan a disastrous mistake. (Prodding mercilessly away in the background is the wily, exacting Beaver. Says he: "So you want to know what makes Sammy [Christiansen] run, eh? Well, I do.") One reader...