“Everything happens for the best,” my mother said whenever I   36  disappointment. “If you can carry on, one day something   37  will happen. And you’ll realize that it wouldn’t have happened if not for that   38  disappointment.”
Mother was right,   39  I discovered after graduating from college in 1932. I had decided to   40 a job in radio, then work my way up to sports   41  . I hitchhiked（搭便车） to Chicago and   42  on the door of every station—and got turned   43  every time.
In one studio, a kind lady told me that big stations couldn’t risk hiring an   44  person –“Go out in the sticks（偏远地区） and find a small station that will give you a   45  ,” she said.
I thumbed home to Dixon, Illinois.   46  there was no radio—announcing job in Dixon, my father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted a local athlete to   47  its sports department. Since Dixon was where I had played high school football. I   48  . The job   49  just right for me. But I wasn’t hired.
My disappointment must have   50  . “Everything happens for the best,” Mom   51  me. Dad offered me the car to job hunt. I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The program director, a wonderful Scotsman named Peter MacArthur, told me they had already hired an announcer.
As I left his office, my frustration   52  . I asked aloud, “How can a fellow get to be a sport announcer if he can’t get a job in a radio station?”
I was waiting for the elevator   53  I heard MacAethur calling, “What was that you said about sports? Do you know anything about football?” Then he asked me to stand before a microphone and to broadcast a (an)   54  game.
On my way home, once again I thought of my mother’s words. I often wonder what   55  my life might have taken if I’d gotten the job at Montgomery Ward.

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