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A Lesson for Living
Mom is my life teacher.“Everything happens for the best,” my mother said 1 I faced disappointment.“If you 2 one day something good will happen.And you'll 3 that it wouldn't have happened if not for that previous disappointment.”
Mother was 4 , as I discovered after graduating from college, I had decided to try for a job 5 radio, then work my way up to 6 .In Chicago, I knocked on the door of every station and got 7 every time.
In one studio, a kind lady told me that big stations couldn't risk hiring an 8 person, “Go out to find a small station,” she suggested.
I thumbed home to Dixon, Illinois. 9 , there were no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon, my father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and 10 a local athlete to manage its sports department.Since Dixon was 11 I had played high school football, I applied.The job sounded 12 right for me.But I wasn't hired.
My 13 must have shown.“Everything happens for the best,” Mom reminded me.I tried WOC Radio in Davenport.The program director, named Peter Mac Arthur, told me they had already hired one.
As I left his office, my frustration boiled over.I asked aloud, “How 14 a fellow get to be a sports announcer if he can't get a job in a radio station?”
I was leaving when I heard Mac Arthur calling,“ 15 was that you said about sports? Do you know 16 about football?” Then he 17 me before a microphone and asked me to broadcast a(n) 18 game.After that, Peter told me I would be broadcasting Saturday's game!
On my way home, 19 since, I always thought of my mother's words:“If you carry on, one day something good will happen.And you'll”…
I often wonder what 20 my life might have taken if I'd gotten the job at Montgomery Ward.
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