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　　disappointment. “If you can carry on, one day something

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　　will happen. And you’ll realize that it wouldn’t have happened if not for that

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　　disappointment.”

　　Mother was right,

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　　I discovered after graduating from college in 1932. I had decided to

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　　a job in radio, then work my way up to sports

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　　. I hitchhiked（搭便车） to Chicago and

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　　on the door of every station—and got turned

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　　every time.

　　In one studio, a kind lady told me that big stations couldn’t risk hiring an

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　　person –“Go out in the sticks（偏远地区） and find a small station that will give you a

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　　,” she said.

　　I thumbed home to Dixon, Illinois.

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　　there was no radio—announcing job in Dixon, my father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted a local athlete to

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　　its sports department. Since Dixon was where I had played high school football. I

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　　. The job

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　　just right for me. But I wasn’t hired.

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