Word: wallasey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Holy Smoke." Born in Wallasey, a grimy industrial city near Liverpool, Arthur Christiansen got to Fleet Street at 20 as London editor of the Liverpool Evening Express, a brash young man whose hair broke over a "rather high brow in embarrassing, almost girlish waves." At 29, he became editor of the Daily Express, second-largest daily in the Western world (after the London Daily Herald). In jig time, Christiansen had the Express in front, although it was later overtaken by the London Daily Mirror. Before a heart attack forced him into retirement, Express circulation doubled...