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The Author, Small, mild-mannered, versatile Ludwig Bemelmans worked first in the U. S. as busboy in a Chinese restaurant. His last restaurant job was managing Manhattan's famed Hapsburg restaurant, whose walls he covered with his own paintings. The author of two charming children's books (Hansi, The Golden Basket], illustrated, as is this one, by himself, he has written and drawn for Vogue, Story, Harper's Bazaar, FORTUNE, designed the stage decor for Noah, decorated the studio of Jascha Heifetz. He is now reported "somewhere in Ecuador on horseback."