Word: swing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the changeover was in full swing. Marine air groups at Tsingtao, Guam and Ewa (outside Pearl Harbor) had been pulled back to the mainland; naval air headquarters was moving to San Diego and closing down four of its five air stations on Oahu. The Air Force was preparing to send its 81st Fighter Wing back to the West Coast, leaving Pearl Harbor's air defense to Hawaii's Air National Guard and its 25 overage F47 Thunderbolts. The Army had cut its garrison forces from 9,000 men to 6,900. By summer, the onetime bastion...
Dixieland consistently breeds good baseball teams. In its 1948 swing, the Crimson won its first game (Johns Hopkins), lost twice (George Washington and Temple), and tied Maryland. Two games were rained out. The teams on this spring's trip are almost all new ones. The entourage leaves South Station at 9 a.m. tomorrow and is due in Charlottesville at 9:13 p.m. The team will not stop at any hotels along the way but will be put up by each of the schools it plays. Batting practice will be held every morning...
Coach Bill Barclay is sending a first-edition team down on the vacation swing, two weeks before he chooses the regular team from 30 candidates. He chose this squad from returning lettermen and from the best players in a competition last fall...
...group has functioned independently since their organization in the 1943 summer term. At that time Kyra Kalinowski '45 and Ronnie Phoenix '45, who had been doing. WHRV "Swing Out" programs, decided to start, a station of their own at Radcliffe. With a $25 grant from the Board of Hall presidents and a donation of rejuvenated equipment from the Network, the girls set up studies in the second floor corner of the field house and began sending programs to dorm residents. To date the station has managed to turn out every scheduled broadcast except for one night in January, 48, when...
...return for special broadcasts, half-hour shows, and Charles O'Brien's "Ballad Corner." As the most recent angle the two stations are even exchanging announcers: Nancy Buhrer '49 does the Network's Monday night "Comin' On" program, and William Clark '49 takes over Radio Radcliffe's Thursday night "Swing Out" (popular music) show...