The reason the Boss liked Bud can be explained very simply, without the aid of music, motion pictures or other contraptions calculated to emphasize and impress.
The reason was this: Bud had IDEAS.
Now an idea is something that only Individuals are susceptible to. Persons never contract them.
Bud was an Individual. The rest of the Office Staff was an office staff.
If an idea had ever wandered in among them, it would have been unable to establish its identity. Nobody would have known the stranger at all.
Bud didn’t see why things should be done a certain way just because old man Noah did them that way.
Nor why a business letter should throb with about as much human interest as a Report on Weights and Measures, just because it was called a business letter.
Bud was also dead set against office stalling.
He never threw the bluff that he was all fevered up with work when he wasn’t doing anything but tinker with a hangnail.
And when he worked on a job, he worked to produce, not to prolong.