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Rigid rules are often laid down to try to avoid such problems. Standard Oil of California, for example, classifies every employee from Type One (draperies, wall-to-wall carpeting, walnut desk, etc.) down to Type Four (no private office, oak desk). A big Manhattan company has set up a chart for every contingency in preparation for moving into a new building now under construction. A top-echelon man gets 280 sq. ft., "furnished to taste," with or without private washroom, depending on whether he is a director. Lesser lights will get 210 sq. ft., again furnished to taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: EXECUTIVE TRAPPINGS; Who Rates the Rugs & When | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

...public sees him. In many banks, which deal constantly with the public, a line is also drawn between "inside" and "outside" jobs. In Atlanta's First National Bank the officers on view in the main lobby all get $600 mahogany desks; those behind the scenes have $300 walnut desks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: EXECUTIVE TRAPPINGS; Who Rates the Rugs & When | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

Whittled a style for his time from a walnut stick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An American Storyteller | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

...shot, welded there by years of tramping in Michigan, skiing in Switzerland, bullfighting in Spain, walking battlefronts and hiking uncounted miles of African safari. On his lap he held a board, and he bent over it with a pencil in one hand. He was still whittling away at his walnut prose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An American Storyteller | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

...YELLER-HEADED SUMMER, by Francis Irby Gwaltney (207 pp.; Rinehart; $3), proves once again that a passel of li'l ole mental defectives can be pretty funny if they speak with a Southern drawl. Dim-witted Jack Winters, hero of this first novel, is constable of Walnut Creek, Ark., and a Bedder-which means that his folks were pore white trash who scratched out a living in a dry river bed. But Jack is proud of his gun and his badge; he loves to crank up the siren on the state police car, and his noblest ambition used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Oct. 4, 1954 | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

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