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Time to Go. In Guelph, Ont., Barber Fred Christiansen toyed with the idea of pulling out, made up his mind to get going when a young man came in and asked for a permanent...
General Friedrich Christiansen, 64, is chief for Holland. A World War I flying ace and no Junker, chunky, weather-beaten Christiansen is also a mariner, went back to sea after the last war and captained the liner Rio Bravo on the Hamburg-Mexico run. Later, returning to the air, he piloted Germany's Do-X flying boat, ultimately stepped in behind Göring to build up the Luftwaffe...
Hard Work and Schmalz. Editor Christiansen's success is due partly to hard work, partly to his unchanging conviction that folks like to read about events which burst from the emotions of men & women, partly to "The Beaver's" penchant for young hustlers in top jobs...
...Express is no scandal sheet, but Arthur Christiansen's brand of journalism has a distinctly yellow hue. There is nothing in the U.S. quite comparable to it. In appearance and content it is more like the Hearst papers than anything else-copiously illustrated, splashy with black headlines, trickily laid...
...from Hot Pots. Arthur Christiansen - grandson of a Danish grocer and son of a Liverpool shipwright - started newspapering by covering parish council meetings, funerals and hot pot suppers for the Wallasey (Cheshire) Chronicle. By 1929 he was assistant editor of the Sunday Express. In that job he distinguished himself the night the British dirigible R-101 crashed in France in 1930. He leaped from his bed at 2 a.m., sped to his office in pajamas, remade his paper, scooped all England...