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living a life I had never fully appreciated
before.
Bitterly, hopelessly, I slumped back into the
chair and cried.
It was then that Dr. Edgren, with some great
intuitive sense, decided on a last effort to save
me from myself.
"Bill," he said, "it isn't too late to stop these
proceedings if you will just admit you need
help and cooperate with me. But you must
withdraw that letter and make up your mind
to stay here peacefully, helping us get at the
root of your troubles. No more lies, no more
tantrums, no more medicine. It won't be easy,
but it's the only way out."
I felt like a man unexpectedly pardoned
from the gallows. For the first time, I knew I
had found someone with a will stronger than
my own, someone more determined that I was
going to get well than I was.
With tears dimming my vision, I grasped his
hand. "I'll withdraw the letter," I wept. "I
swear I'll put myself in your hands, Doctor.
Whatever you say, I promise you, that will
be it."
It was at this moment God willed I should
get well.
If I used millions of words, there is no ex
plaining the joy of my homecoming on a cold
blustery day in late December, 1956.
As Harriet drove up our winding driveway,
it was the most beautiful sight I had ever seen.
I simply sat there, taking in every detail.
Home again!
Two lazy and wonderful weeks slipped past
and I felt complete, filled with a surging vital
ity. My convalescence was almost four months
old by this time, and the urge was growing
ever stronger to return to work.
It was twice as tough as I expected it to be.
Old friends were pleasant but evasive. New
faces were friendly but noncommittal. As one
disappointing day led to another, there seemed
to be no jobs for Bill Stern.
But I kept trying. In the meantime I found
contentment in my blessings: Harriet's happi
ness, our children, our home, and my new
found health. These, I knew, I would not trade
for all the fame in the world nor would I
jeopardize them again.
Almost two months passed. Money was no
immediate problem; I had earned great
sums and saved conscientiously. Yet a seem
ing eternity of inactivity passed before I finally
received a call in February from station
WINS in New York.
They offered me a spot as a disc jockey from
7 to 10 in the morning. It was a start up the
road back, and I was tremendously grateful
for the opportunity to take this first step in
the right direction.
This show, which we called "Contact," was
patterned after Bill Cullen's highly successful
"Pulse," an NBC program.
Then, on a memorable day in August, I
received a phone call from Mike Roshkind,
who was handling public relations for the
Mutual Broadcasting System.
"Bill," he asked, "how would you like to do
a sports show for Mutual?"
Mike's words were among the most beauti
ful I had ever heard because they meant my
re-entry into the network field and into sports,
which I had always preferred.
Stern has own program, is also sports
director of Mutual Broadcasting System.
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Details were worked out and in September,
1957, I was doing a nightly show for Mutual.
The following January will always be one
of the most memorable months of my life. My
old sponsor, Colgate, for whom I had worked
12 years putting on the fantastically successful
"Sports Newsreel," proved its loyalty to me
again when it sponsored me coast-to-coast,
twice each morning, over the Mutual network.
Then, although I had been back on the air
in sports for only three months, the nation's
radio editors voted me the Radio-and-TV
Daily award as the sportscaster of the year.
New encouragement was provided when
TV-Radio Mirror informed me early this year
that I had won its award as 1958's favorite
radio sports announcer.
To cap rr all, there was this letter from Dr.
Francis J. Braceland, psychiatrist-in-chief
at the Institute of Living in Hartford.
"Dear Bill:
"The excellent reports I get about you from
Dr. Edgren and the things 1 read about your
accomplishments give me a great feeling of
satisfaction. You have done an excellent job.
You are to be sincerely congratulated, and I
am so delighted to see you back in the swing
of things.
"Although it is impossible to convey to each
person who is here our feelings and hopes,
nonetheless we are vitally interested in their
welfare. Without this interest, the job here
would be impossible.
"Please know, therefore, that by your
accomplishments you help a great many
people. You encourage those who are having
trouble themselves and who have learned that
you had difficulty and saw it through, and you
also encourage the members of the staffs like
ours who feel that the efforts this work re
quires are not in vain.
"With my own sincere personal congratula- '
Hons and the congratulations and prayers and
best wishes of every member of the staff, I am
Sincerely,
Francis J. Braceland, M.D."
I cherish that letter, and a deep gratitude
wells up within me at the kindness of people:
the ever-aiding votes of the most distant and
anonymous listener, the encouragement of the
awards, the inspiration of such earnest men
as Dr. Braceland and Dr. Edgren.
Above all, I cherish my loved ones for their
faith, help, and understanding. All I can say to
them, now that it is over, is thank you.
And thank God.
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Family Weekly, December 6, 1959