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...about the same time that Kaltenborn rolled out these exhortations, he and some of his fellow commentators got together at Manhattan's Harvard Club to form the Association of Radio News Analysts. President: Kaltenborn. Vice Presidents: Elmer Davis, Raymond Gram Swing. One object: "To establish and maintain a code of ethics which shall govern their professional conduct...
...public was also studying radio. War has sensitized many a normally numb ear to the profound difference between commentators like Mutual's Raymond Gram Swing, whose concern has been wholly with the news, and one like Mutual's $130,000-a-year Gabriel Heatter, whose soughing sanctimony and elephantine fight talk sound most appropriate when he urges the oily virtues of "my good friend, Kreml Shampoo...
...Peter Gram Swing '44 of Eliot House and son of the radio commentator Raymond Gram Swing has joined the Navy's publicity department. Having severed his connections with the College, Swing will be stationed at the Boston Navy Yard as a petty officer third class until he completes his training...
Cheery as a birthday sing-o-gram, that message boomed through the loudspeaker of a British ship, one of several anchored brazenly last week off the German-held Lofoten Islands on Norway's jagged northwestern coast. Bearers of the greeting were Britain's tough Commandos, bent on destruction of radio equipment guiding German shipping along the Axis sea route to the Arctic fighting front in Russia...
Mutual's deliberative Raymond Gram Swing gave the most searching of all the week's radio analyses. "We have been the safest-minded people on earth," he said. "And we have indulged to the full the extravagance of underestimating our opponents....There is however one mercy in this grievous situation....Our defeat has come at the beginning....We can outproduce the Axis. And we can out-will the Axis...