Word: laddered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rung or so below the problem novel on fiction's ladder stands the predicament novel. This type of fiction might also be called soup opera, since the hero or heroine usually gets in the soup in the first chapter and doesn't get out till the last. Soup-opera books have a further important characteristic: after modest-sized editions in hard covers, they go quickly into huge editions in paperback-and become the reading of millions. The Birds and the Bees by James Aswell is a typical sample of the species...
Thomas is the exception which proves the rule that the top man on a squash ladder is usually the best all-around player. He stands alone, unchallenged, with only one loss. But he isn't a smooth, poised player like Captain Pete Milton or third place Martin Hockshire. He lacks the finesse of Milton's stroke and the sharp court tactics of Hockshire. Corey explains the dilemma with "he's a fighter, with terrific power, the kind of guy who never lots...
...Down the ladder, tennis player turned squash, and there's the "D" team. Both Brooks Harris and Roger Cortesi starred at schoolboy tennis, along with Art Ellison and Carl Brandt, who rated an enthusiastic "very fine" from Wynn. Lee Folger rounds out the seconds; he's new to squash, but "coming fast," according to the coach...
Francis P. Whitehair wanted to be Secretary of the Navy. Last week he made it. The last step on his Jacob's ladder was a disappearing letter of resignation...
...Erskine wanted to install a new accounting system in EMF; Vance objected that it wouldn't work. He half expected to be fired. Instead, when Erskine became president, he made Vance assistant treasurer. Vance moved to South Bend in 1919, slowly worked up every rung of the Studebaker ladder. By the time depression struck, he was production vice president and a director, while Paul Hoffman, now president of the Ford Foundation, was vice president in charge of sales...