CWS

Everyone has had to confront disappointment, but the emotion must be especially powerful for those who had spectacular success within their grasp but let slip through their fingers. In the CWS (coulda/woulda/shoulda) Hall of Fame are book publishers HarperCollins, Penguin, and Transworld, who rejected an English schoolteacher’s fanciful tales of a boy wizard who goes off to school. A second inductee is drummer Pete Best, who left a Liverpool rock band in the early 1960’s--anyone know what happened to them? A third entry is Ron Wayne, who 30 years ago decided that a company started by two computer geeks named Steve was going nowhere. Whenever you’re feeling regrets about the roads not taken, take heart that you’re not those guys.