A lesson of life
" Everything happens for the best, "  my mother said whenever I faced disappointment. "If you can carry on, one day something       will happen. And you'll      that it wouldn't have happened if not for that previous disappointment. "
After graduating from college, I        that mother was right. I had decided to try for a job in radio, then work my way up to sports announcer. I travelled to Chicago by getting         rides from drivers of passing cars and knocked on the door of every station-and got turned       every time.
In one studio, a kind lady told me that big stations couldn't      hiring inexperienced person-"Go out in the countryside and find a small station that'll give you a         , " she said.
I returned home to Dixon, Illinois. While there was no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon, my father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted a       athlete to manage its sports department. Since Dixon was where I had played high school football, I       .  The job sounded just        for me. But I wasn't       .
My       must have shown. "Everything happens for the best," Mom       me. Dad       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,  I felt extremely        .I asked        ,  " 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          I heard MacArthur calling,  " What was that you said about sports? Do you know anything about football?" Then he stood me        a microphone (麦克风) and asked me to broadcast an       game.
On my way home, as I have many times since,  I thought of my mother's words: " Keep on trying until some day you succeed. Something wouldn't have happened if not for that previous failure. " I often wonder what        my life might have taken if I'd got the job at Montgomery

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