Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most Harvard men know, is not an entirely personal matter. The Cliffite receives calls through the dorm bell system, an elaborate array of buzzers, wires, and little colored lights, which operate daily from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. and slightly later on Sundays and holidays. After hours, the bell desk turns into a pumpkin, and the Radcliffe Cinderella, unless she has a private phone, is virtually cut off from the outside world...
...inside of a boxcar, features drab beige throughout, vinyl tile floor, Venetian-blind tapes of a too-dark shade of brown. The massive oak furniture is awkward, outmoded and impractical. No draperies. Several unimportant pictures hang from the wall as if they had landed there by accident. Desk accessories coordinate with nothing. About the best that can be said is that it is clean and the furniture is in good repair...
...cumulative effect of crooked pictures and uncorrelated desk accessories, reasons the survey, is to expose the executive to "countless minor irritations dripping constantly on the nerves." Since businessmen spend half their waking lives in offices, they soon "succumb, in the prime of life, to ulcers, nervous breakdowns and heart attacks." Well-designed furnishings, on the other hand, "pay off in the health, happiness and peak efficiency of the executive." They will also be around when his successor moves...
...Comer. Editor Hetherington last week ordered an extra telephone for his desk, making a total of three, but that was the only change in sight under the new regime. The son of Sir Hector Hetherington, principal of Glasgow University, he took honors in English at Oxford, went straight into the tank corps in World War II. His first newspaper job was on the British military staff putting out Hamburg's Die Welt. After the war Hetherington worked on the Glasgow Herald, spent five months at Princeton as a Commonwealth Fellow in 1952. When he switched to the Guardian...
Doctors predicted that the secretary should be able to return to his desk in about six weeks...