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Only in The Great Gatsby did Scott reconcile the idealism of American culture with its materialism. In these later stories, the fairytales die hard. "Jacob's Ladder," a Pygmalion story and one of the most tender in the book, tells of a rich, rather bored man who makes the sister of a murderess a film star. She offers him her affection but he rejects it until, separated by her success, he wants her; by then, of course, it is too late...
Sally Roberts took her lumps at number one 6-1, 6-0 and Rita Funaro recipricated 6-0, 6-1 at the second slot. Number three Terry Clarke moved three slots up in the singles ladder for the match, only to get fireman's carried away...
...Crimson; it's just that what they say can also be learned by a) using some common sense or b) checking their past response to a similar situation and then reprinting it verbatim. Category #4--Again, a one-man grouping. Although others have tried to advance up the ladder into this prestigious class, the sole individual who can claim membership is track mentor Bill McCurdy, the Henny Youngman of Dillon Field House and a retired lieutenant colonel of the United States Army Reserve...
...country where businessmen dress discreetly, speak circumspectly and plod patiently up the executive ladder, Robert A. Lutz, the president of German Ford, cuts a rather exotic figure. He wears elegant London-made suits and colorful shirts, rides motorcycles, collects and personally restores old cars, and speaks provocatively enough to have rated a full-length interview in the May German edition of Playboy (sample quote: "There is nothing rational about the automobile industry. There is no other aspect of business that depends so much on psychology, prejudice and image"). Now the 44-year-old Lutz is moving into...
...novel does ask a better question, though. Tom, who has fought a hard war, now rides a commuter train and works at a corporate job. Shouldn't there be something more to life, he wonders dimly, than crawling up the salary ladder, moving from suburb to classier suburb? If the process by which a novel becomes a bestseller is not simply a random phenomenon, like the winning of a lottery-a dubious proposition that wise old publishers brood about-then Gray Flannel owed its vogue to the fact that a lot of sad young men were thinking...