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Will Eisner, The Spirit's creator, was one of the best of the comic book artists of the '30's and '40's. He wrote his own strips, and drew them in a violent graphic style related to the German expressionist approach to moviemaking practiced by Fritz Lang, G. W. Pabst, and F. W. Murnau. Eisner's strip was filled with horrifying close-ups, weird shadows, and strange angles. Jules Feiffer claims that The Spirit's world looked "more real than the world of other comic book men because it looked that much more like a movie...
...court called this construction "a gratuitous unconstitutional reach" that might well encourage lower courts to penalize "matter produced solely for the personal enjoyment of the creator." Construing Ginzburg, the court stressed: "No constitutionally punishable conduct appears in the case of an individual who prepares material for his own use" or who "intends to purge the material of any objectionable element before distributing or exhibiting it." To hold otherwise, the court said, "would pose grave technical difficulty for the unconventional artist" and "tend to suppress experimental productions that might become, in finished form, constitutionally protected communication...
Died. Sy Devore, 57, Hollywood tailor who designed status-symbol clothes for those who had arrived, charging Jerry Lewis $300 for a cognac-colored dinner jacket, and William Holden $200 for a silk jump suit, best known as the creator of what he called "the Ail-American Suit," a $350 set of threads honed down to essentials-no cuffs, no belt, no handkerchief pocket; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
More and more lawyers are now advising clients to set up "revocable inter vivos [living] trusts," which in effect act as a conduit during a man's lifetime for the transfer of his property to his heirs. The creator of such a trust, however, retains full control of it, and as a result he escapes federal gift taxes, though not estate or income taxes on whatever the trust earns. He can change the trust as he pleases until he dies. The trust thus takes the place of a will-and all property that goes into it bypasses probate...
...A.B.A. itself sponsors a far sounder predecessor of Dacey's primer - a highly sophisticated film, written and narrated for U.S. lawyers by Harvard Law Professor A. James Casner, one of the country's top trust experts. To really beat probate, Casner stresses that the creator must "fund" a revocable living trust with as much as possible of his income-producing property before he dies-the more the better. Setting up such a trust may cost more than probate in lawyers' fees, trustees' fees and stock-transfer taxes. Even so, in many cases the trust can save...