Word: grams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pretend series; best verse, Archibald MacLeish's Air Raid, Norman Corwin's Seems Radio Is Here to Stay; best news dramatization, THE MARCH OF TIME; best spot news reporting, Jack Knell's on the Squalus disaster; best news commentators, H. V. Kaltenborn, Raymond Gram Swing...
...officer's clipped story of his ship's disaster, thrilled to the drama of the Squalus rescue work. They heard a new Pope proclaimed. They heard three men launch a war. And, as conductor of this medley of events, they heard the cool, trenchant voice of Raymond Gram Swing, MBS's one-man brain trust on world affairs, U. S. radio's "find" of 1939. Some radio programs listed him under Dance Music, as "Raymond Gram, swing!" But last week Variety voted Raymond Gram Swing the leading "attention-getter" among news analysts and commentators...
...Raymond Gram Swing is 52, a tall, stooped, tweedy, horn-rimmed man with unruly brown hair. The Gram came from his wife, Betty Gram, once a militant suffragette and still an ardent feminist. He pitched into U. S. journalism in 1906, at 19. In 1913 he became the Chicago Daily News's man in Berlin...