Word: lightheartedness
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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...
Military men have long complained that Laotian soldiers will not fight. Political scientists have been exasperated by the Laotians' lighthearted attempts to govern themselves and by their queer habit of having two capitals, a political one at Vientiane and a royal one at Luangpra-bang. Last week it was...
Gross's youth was none too lighthearted: a series of nights during World War I from his native Austria to Budapest and finally to the U.S. in 1921, when he was 17. At one time he was a bus boy in Atlantic City; at another, he and his close...
$54,545 a Word. A middle-sized man behind heavy black glasses, Dino de Laurentiis, 42, is an unlikely figure for the duce of Italian cinema. At 16 he won a scholarship at a motion picture school, ducked out of his family's prosperous spaghetti-making business, and came...
Born. To Robert Morse, 30, tousle-haired comic star of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Broadway's lighthearted spoof of the corporate image, and his actress-danseuse wife, Carole D'Andrea, 22: their first child, a daughter (whose birth was announced to Morse in a...