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Died. Michel de Ghelderode (real name: Aldemar Martens). 63, noted Belgian playwright whose darkling dramas on medieval Flemish themes (best known: Splendors of Hell, Pantagleize) foreshadowed today's "theater of the absurd," a wizened hermit who rarely left the "dream'' room where he wrote surrounded by sepulchral puppets dressed up as characters from his plays; of asthma; in Brussels...
...airport. Bursting into the nearby Malayan officers' mess, where the 13 Italian flyers were having lunch, the Congolese soldiers grabbed the "Belgian" crewmen and hustled them off to a jail near town. Two Italians shouted their protests in French as they waved U.N. identity cards. "Ah, Flemish!" cried the Congolese as they began to beat the prisoners. Then someone opened fire, and one by one, the 13 Italians were killed on the spot...
...display in the Book Corridor will demonstrate "French Design and Decoration for the Craftsman of the 18th Century." In Gallery D 45 a display of communion silver from the First Parish Congregational Church in Milton will begin on Sunday. Recent accessions on display include 16th and 17th century Dutch, Flemish, and Italian paintings...
...popular taste is fast catching up to the harsh bite and passion of Germany's most mystical modern painter. A month-long show of 244 Nolde works in Brussels this spring drew 4,600 viewers, despite one critical comment that his colors are too "grating and jazzy for Flemish eyes." Last week a seven-week exhibition of Nolde's work opened in Hannover to critical acclaim. Long neglected, Nolde's restless watercolors and agitated oils are now bringing record prices, reflecting his new popular ascendancy as one of the best of the German expressionists...
...street is a long line of hole-in-the-wall shops. From the sidewalks rises a babble, mostly in the English peculiar to New York, but also in Russian, German, Yiddish, Hungarian, Flemish and Dutch. Plainclothesmen unobtrusively roam the block, and inside the buildings armed guards watch passers-by through bulletproof windows. But for all its crowded and wary atmosphere, Manhattan's West 47th Street is the most sparkling street in town because it is the hub of the U.S.'s $500 million annual diamond market...