Word: rolltop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Operaman Gallo keeps out of the red by paring expenses to the bone. Instead of having an executive staff, he handles all decisions and details himself, working at a rolltop desk in a mousy Broadway office building. He pays no fancy salaries: minimum for principals is $40 a performance. On the road, San Carlo's orchestra numbers only 23, the total company 100-odd. Expense-conscious Fortune Gallo once spied the orchestra's harpist strolling down the street while a Rigoletto performance was going on, angrily inquired why he was not in the pit. To the harpist...
...Denver, last week, a towering, stoop-shouldered, stub-bearded old Scotsman pushed back his chair from behind an ancient rolltop desk, clapped on his battered Stetson at a rakish angle, and ambled through the door. Lord Ogilvy, 79, ace feature writer on the Denver Post for the last 30 years, started down the street...
...Pillsburys. Recent resignation of Treasurer Alfred Fiske Pillsbury (70) left the family without an officer in the company (John Sargent Pillsbury is board chairman). Last week into the treasurership moved 230 Ibs. of fourth-generation Pillsbury. Phil Pillsbury quietly took over his father's old walnut chair and rolltop desk, settled into the Pillsbury executive groove...