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Roger Birk, chairman of Merrill Lynch & Co., stands as tall on the job as in his profession. Birk presides over the largest U.S. brokerage house from a brown walnut stand-up desk that he uses for everything from reading mail to signing multimillion-dollar deals. He acquired the desk ten years ago to help relieve the agonizing backaches that plagued him after long hours in a chair. Those pains are gone now, but the desk has stayed. Says Birk: "I find it pleasant and more practical than normal desks, and even tension easing...
Xerox Corp. also has its share of officers who do their desk work standing. Chairman C. Peter McColough has used a stand-up desk for two decades, and a severe back problem led President David T. Kearns to get one a year and a half ago. Wayland Hicks, a Xerox vice president, works from a high desk that he can lower...
...taste for tall living has not given much lift to furniture firms since most executives have their desks custom-made. Shinn sketched an antique schoolmaster's lectern that he came across in New England, and had a carpenter copy the design. A specially built stand-up desk may cost $4,000 or more...
...Stand-up executives still keep sit-down desks in their offices, but they use them mainly for meetings. Some, like Fenwick Crane, chairman of the Family Life Insurance Co. of Seattle, avoid them as much as they can. Asked when Chairman Crane used his, his secretary, Mimy Fisker, replied, "To read the Wall Street Journal...
Weinstein recently put his stand-up act on display at an anti-draft rally near Memorial Hall. In between speeches and music, he came on and delivered a well-received series of one-liners in the Rodney Dangerfield mold. A brief sampling "Nancy Reagan, she's really a fine woman, bi: her idea of the Third World is J. C. Penney's. The post office is having problems with the Ronald Reagan stamp they just issued: people keep spitting on the wrong side." Most observers agree that Weinstein's delivery is very professional. "Anders steals more jokes than Milton Berle...