Mr. Fairfax Cone
also written Mr. Cone in the book
Biography
Happy that the narrator did not enter the army. Asked him to go to San Francisco to help save the office and promised a train ticket home if he disliked it. Name used in the client's sarcastic greeting to the three visitors; not explicitly identified here as Mr. Fairfax Cone.
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Asked to help the San Francisco office
Cone asked Bernard to help save the office and promised a train ticket home if he did not like it. The passage does not describe the actual move.
Bernie's Chapter
Stories mentioning Mr.
- A First Layout and a Warm Welcome at FCBAfter deciding he had had enough art school, Bernard crossed the street to Foote Cone and Belding and was hired despite his slight portfolio and lack of advertising knowledge. Six months later, he won approval from a difficult Armour Chemicals client on his first assignment. He recalls five happy years in the Chicago office, an award in his first year, and pioneering television work with an animated Dial commercial called “Mr. Oops.”
- Back to the Drawing Board, with a Party to FollowHaving just turned nineteen, Bernard received a 4F classification after a brief draft examination. He walked back to FCB and resumed his layout, then used his going-away gift money to throw a party for his coworkers. Mr. Fairfax Cone, pleased he was staying out of the army, asked him to help save the San Francisco office and offered to pay his train fare home if he disliked it.
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