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Died. Ludwig Bemelmans. 64, bubbly, urbane caricaturist whose lighthearted paintings and gently satirical books delighted adults and children alike; of cancer of the pancreas; in Manhattan. Son of a Belgian painter and a Bavarian brewer's daughter. Bemelmans worked as a hotel waiter, opened his own restaurant, became a bon vivant and peopled his books and canvases with epileptic Ecuadorian generals, French jewel thieves. American ladies in feather boas, and a Parisian moppet named Madeline. "The purpose of art," he once said, "is to console and amuse-myself, and, I hope, others...
...confused with the Congo (Leopoldville), the former Belgian colony that usually causes all the trouble...
Africans treat soccer as a form of refereed tribal warfare. Nigeria once upbraided a Ghanaian team for hexing the Nigerian goalie with black magic. In 1959 a game in the Belgian Congo between the Luluas and the Balubas touched off a three-day war in which 20 people were killed. Fortnight ago, the former French colony of Gabon sent a team to Brazzaville in the neighboring ex-French Congo* for a game of soccer. The toll so far: nine dead, 70 injured, and several thousand citizens transformed into refugees...
...Coming. These were fragments from A Song for the Dance of Death, by the late Belgian Playwright Michel de Ghelderode, performed on CBS's religious series, Lamp Unto My Feet. The program's host hailed Ghelderode as a sort of dark messiah of the implied positive, whose generally malevolent characters actually yearn steadily for God. Other critics have said that in this century of despair, no more despairing voice-they variously compare it to lonesco's and even Brecht's-has rolled through the black caverns of the absurd...
Lamp Unto My Feet (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). Examples from the work of the late Belgian playwright Michel de Gheledrode...