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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...
...Treasurer Albert Russel 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...
Buck got his first significant promotion in 1939 when he became associate professor of History. It didn't take him long to jump the next rung of the professorial ladder--in 1942 he became a full professor...
...want some roller skates and I want a book and I can't think of anything else. I want you to think of something else." Andre Marty, 65-year-old Marxist bullyboy of French Communism who has been slipping down the hierarchy of the party, reached the bottom rung. After being booted from a succession of top posts, his own local cell came to a decision: Marty is "no longer fit to be a member of the party." In Washington, Senator Joe McCarthy was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with four gold stars (accompanied...
...seem to do too well against western teams," said a voice from the top rung of the Roost. "How's Washington been doing...