概述：

1947年，我从约翰斯·霍普金斯大学毕业，向《巴尔的摩太阳报》应聘警事记者一职。。。

Hints:

Johns Hopkins

Baltimore Sun

White House

Oval Office

Accounts of police corruption and murderers dying in the electric chair fascinated me. In 1947 I graduated from Johns Hopkins and applied for a job with the Baltimore Sun as a police reporter. Why they picked me was a mystery. It paid $30 a week. When I complained the wage was humiliating for a learned man, mother refused to sympathize. "If you work hard at this job," she said, "maybe you can make something of it." After a while, I was given an assignment to cover diplomats at various African embassies. Then, seven years after I started, I was assigned by the Sun to cover the White House. Reporting from the Oval Office was as close to heaven as a journalist could get. I looked forward to seeing the delight on my mother's face when I told her.
警察贪污以及凶手死于电椅的报道令我着迷。 1947年，我从约翰斯•霍普金斯大学毕业，向《巴尔的摩太阳报》应聘警事记者一职。他们为何选择了我是个谜。工资是一周30美元。我抱怨薪水太低，这对一个有学问的人来说是侮辱，但母亲却不认同。 “如果你努力做好这份工作，”她说，“说不定能够做出些名堂来。” 不久，我被委派去采访非洲各国驻美大使馆的外交官。工作七年后，《太阳报》派我去白宫采访。对于一个记者来说，能够从椭圆型办公室发回报道已经是达到职业的顶峰了。当我把这个消息告诉母亲时，我期待着从她的脸上看到喜悦。