Meeting Across The River

A businessman struggles to make his meeting and encounters a young woman who changes his life.

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18 April 1963
London

James Hardheart had been groomed for business since he was a child. His parents sent him to the finest schools. When he graduated, James went to work for the Farley, Cumberbatch, and Brixton advertising agency on Baker Street. He got a small flat and threw himself into his career. James worked long hours and earned a name for himself working on the Regurgent Petrol campaign.

But James was too ambitious to work for someone else and struck out on his own starting the Goodheart Advertising Agency. James’s parents disapproved of his sir name change, but James knew advertising and realized Hardheart would not project the right image. James hired a secretary and another young, ambitious ad man, Harry Flinn.

Unwisely, James left Farley, Cumberbatch, and Brixton on bad terms. Strolling in on a Monday morning and saying, “My talents are wasted here. I resign effective today.” Farley, Cumberbatch, and Brixton made it their business to “put that disloyal scamp in his place.” Any client James managed to sign was quickly wooed away by Farley, Cumberbatch, and Brixton.