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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...
...King's marriage were not merely interested in blocking it, but in using it as a pretext for ridding themselves of a ruler whom they did not want. The leaders in this back-room plot, believed Beaverbrook, were Tory Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Cosmo Gordon Lang, the Archbishop of Canterbury. "The Archbishop did not want either the King or the marriage," said the Beaver. "Baldwin, the Prime Minister, did not want King Edward and did not care about the marriage one way or the other...
NICHOLAS R. LANG Staten Island...
...Economics); John A. Katzenellenbogen, of Baltimore, Md. (Chemistry); Alexis P. Malozemoff, of Greenwich, Conn. (Chemistry and Physics); Myron Miller, of New York City (Architectural Sciences); Carl R. Olson, of Seattle, Wash. (English); Richard D. Rippe, of Chappaqua, N.Y. (Economics); John W. Shaw, of Worthington, Ohio (Linguistics and Germanic Lang.), and George G. Weickhardt, of Alexandria, Va. (History...
John A. Bernstein, of Gloucester (History); Carlton E. DeTar, of Tallahassee Fla. (Chemistry and Physics); James A. Doyle, of Ballard Vale (Biology); Jack S. Fellman, of Dorchester (Linguistics and Near East. Lang.); Douglas W. Hoffman, of Milwaukee Wis. (Government); John A. Howell, of Arlington (Physics); Michael M. Lieber, of Arlington, Va. (Bichemical Sciences); Christopher Mitchell, of New York City (Government); Stuart A. Pizer, of Staten Island, N.Y. (English); Garret D. Rosenblatt, of San Francisco, Calif. (History and Lit.); Steven E. Rubin, of Malden (Biology); and Irving S. Schloss, of Riverdale, N.Y. (History...