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...Ambassador to Ceylon (1953-56), lately Secretary Dulles' special assistant for confidential press relations (policy guidance, planned news leaks). Crowe's successor as briefing officer: Pennsylvania Banker William Warren Scranton, 41, civic leader, whose ancestors gave their name to the Pennsylvania industrial city of Scranton, formerly Slocum Hollow...
Author Grossman is managing editor of East Europe, a serious magazine published by the Free Europe Committee, but in this first novel he is also a cynical commentator on the U.S. scene. He is obviously convinced that there is something hollow at the core of American life. Willard-Hugo can be devastating as he describes a suburban party given by Cairo Joy's married sister. He raises hob with giveaway shows, the pornographic-picture trade along Times Square, the shallow mind of little Miss Average whose only coup in life is the landing of a husband...
...years ago, 32 big mines were operating; today there are nine. The number of working miners has dipped from 12,500 in 1950 to 5,000. Few other jobs are available. Harlan is all hill and hollow, and the hollows are too narrow for farming or factories...
...20th century morality play by Poet Archibald MacLeish, expressing modern man's torment in terms of the Book of Job. Despite some flatness in both poetry and drama, and a rather hollow ending, it makes for an arresting evening in the theater...
...family settled in Oakland, California, where the children became thoroughly westernized. Gertrude approved of California because she got "all anybody could want of joyous sweating, of rain and wind, of hunting, of cows and horses and dogs, of chopping wood, of making hay, of dreaming, of lying in a hollow all warm with the sun shining while the wind was howling, of knowing all poor kinds of queer people...