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...Communist newspapers agreed it was "a great event," but "the All-European Security Conference" was not so well attended as Molotov had hoped. No Western or even neutral country turned up. Across the hollow square of tables in Moscow's Spiridonovka House, Molotov was left confronting the hollow men representing Russia's seven European satellites...
...Moon Looks Down. As Carrington well knows, the art is not easy. Drum talk is not a code like Morse. It is actually an attempt to reproduce language. Every syllable has its own tone, which the drummer must be able to catch by striking the hollow log at exactly the right spot. In some Bantu dialects, a single tone pattern may have different meanings, as in the pattern for moon and jowl. Thus, a drummer must know enough to add a qualifying phrase: moon becomes "the moon looks down on the earth" and fowl turns into "the fowl, the little...
...morning last week, the hollow-faced old aristocrat hobbled out of the prison on a cane, smiled briefly, and with his daughter at his side rode to freedom in a hired automobile. Nothing he owned at war's end fitted him now, and he wore corduroy trousers, a checked shirt, a green tie, and a cheap jacket, from which his jailers only the night before had removed the large numeral...
...wilderness about 1800, Massachusetts-born John Chapman for the next 45 years planted his nurseries in inviting places on the Ohio and Indiana frontiers. A dedicated Swedenborgian, he peddled his seedlings and otherworldly chatter among the settlers, wearing rags, walking barefoot even on ice, sleeping on hearths or in hollow logs, and sharing what little he had with white folks, Indians and the birds of the air. Before he died at 70, near Ft. Wayne, Ind., his fame was already spreading beyond the banks of the Maumee and the Mohican where, says Vachel Lindsay...
Nick Platt stroked a pick-up crew to victory over four other shells in the varsity rowers' annual "Hollow Log Regatta" on the Charles yesterday...