Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris the fierce young captain stopped off in Manhattan and met José Clemente Orozco, who was painting toys in a factory. Siqueiros told Orozco he thought the subway was one of the loveliest things he had ever seen. Riding a hurtling Bronx express, they quarreled violently about it. When the train stopped, Orozco dashed out and disappeared into a blinding snowstorm. Siqueiros waited all night in the subway entrance, making occasional forays into the night, fearful that a great Mexican talent was freezing to death somewhere under the alien snow. Two days later Siqueiros learned that his angry friend...
...London Daily Express office during the war, Editor Arthur Christiansen used to notice a lackadaisical G.I. in a typical G.I. pose-leaning against the wall of the sub-editors' room and blankly chewing gum. One day Christiansen struck up a conversation with the leaner, found that he was soaking up the newspaper atmosphere for future use. His name: Sergeant Richard Vesey...
Godlike Voice. Christiansen gets along with people. His journalist's creed is simply: "People, people, people!" This formula, plus his enormous energy, made him editor of Lord Beaverbrook's flamboyant Express at 29. In his first year, 1933, he raised the circulation 160,000, made the Express the world's biggest daily. And he has kept it there ever since. Into a four-page paper, Christiansen and his editors pack as many as 70 brisk, brief, breezy news stories, as well as pictures and features. They highlight them with tricky typography (when the "Ink Spots" quartet visited...
...staff of the Daily Express is the best paid in Fleet Street, and Christiansen says it has the hardest-working editor. He gets up at 8:30, reads the papers until 10, then makes for the bathroom. There he reads and shaves at the same time...
...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 whose political views Christiansen has never swayed...