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...LIVING AND ONE DEAD-Sigurd Christiansen-Liveright...
Just so much grit in so many gear-boxes are most themes in most novels. A brilliant exception to this rule is Author Christiansen's Inter-Scandinavian prize novel Two Living and One Dead. So dextrously is its theme amalgamated with its characters that readers will find it impossible to formulate the one without telling the whole story of the others...
...Author. Since 1915 a clerk in the post office of his native city, Drammen, Author Christiansen has had long to wait for anything more satisfying than critical acclaim. His first novel The Victor won the critics, sold only a few hundred copies. Subsequent plays and novels got high praise, but sales stayed low. Now all Scandinavia is reading Two Living and One Dead. Flawless in outline, crystal-clear as a Norwegian icicle, it deals with psychological subtleties at high tension with almost miraculous precision, without any witchcraft other than an immaculate literary conscience and a knifelike style...
...twelve engines.. There she has remained while Dornier officials tried without success to interest U. S. groups in chartering the boat for coastwise service. Last week it was announced that the DO-X will be flown back to Germany in May. Meanwhile her commander, Capt. Franz Christiansen, and all but two members of her crew sailed to Germany for a vacation...
...comment was aroused last week by the report from Germany that Designer Dornier contemplated replacing the plane's twelve Curtiss Conqueror engines with six oil-burning engines now under development. To that the Curtiss-Wright Corp. promptly replied by displaying cablegrams of congratulation from Designer Dornier and Capt. Christiansen on the performance of the motors...