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Fumes of Privilege. All is not yet lost on Savile Row, the "Golden Mile" made up of some 200 establishments on half a dozen streets in Mayfair. In a men's-club atmosphere of horsehair sofas, fireplaces, brass candelabras and rolltop desks, the shops breathe-as one historian noted appreciatively-"the fumes of privilege, of clubs, of Toryism." In keeping with the tradition that put a Savile Row uniform on Napoleon III when he mounted the throne of France, Hawes & Curtis recently finished a $900, gold-braided beauty for Thailand's King Bhumibol, as part...
Evil Is Inefficient. A fulltime novelist from then on, Shute clung to his methodical engineering habits. From 9:30 a.m. to noon, he typed at his manuscript, seated at a secondhand rolltop desk that his father had given him. A year was par for a novel. As critics and readers quickly learned, his characters behaved with a realistic mixture of human strength and frailty. Storyteller Shute was peculiarly immune to the lilt and color of prose, but he fashioned his sentences with pane-of-glass clarity...
...Bugaboo. Among Boston newsmen, the passing of an era was little mourned. The warrens on Washington Street-cluttered city rooms, wire-cage elevators, battered rolltop desks-symbolized the musty editorial policies of the papers. "We've tried everything else," said one Globeman. "Maybe a change of scenery will get us-and the rest of the papers -up off our duffs...
Lost: $1,000,000. Precise, prim-looking and uncertain, J.D.R. Jr. started work amid the massive rolltop desks, mustard-colored carpets and bare walls of his father's offices at 26 Broadway, New York. His first jobs there were filling inkwells, deciding the size of the bran bins of the family stables, dispatching a large granite shaft to Cleveland for the family's cemetery plot. Within a few years, however, he began to collect directorships of U.S. Steel, Colorado Fuel & Iron, the National City Bank, Standard Oil of New Jersey and others. Then he lost...
...small office in Sears' block-long home in Chicago, which, in 1905, when it was opened, was the "world's largest office building." Wood still uses the same walnut desk that Rosenwald used, sits in the same leather chair, keeps extra papers in another traditional rolltop desk in the corner. But there is nothing old-fashioned about Wood's business philosophy; he runs Sears "in terms of the democratic spirit." Says Wood: "We put our faith in men, not systems. I like to let a man learn by making a few mistakes, as long as they...