Raymond Gram Swing (March 25, 1887 – December 23, 1968) was an American broadcast journalist born in Cortland, New York; he died in Washington D.C. As a radio commentator he was heard by people worldwide as the leading voice from Britain during WWII. He was first known as Raymond Swing but adopted his wife's last name in 1919 becoming known as Raymond Gram Swing.
Swing attended Oberlin College, in Ohio. Swing lasted one year before he, an eternal...
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Raymond Gram Swing (March 25, 1887 – December 23, 1968) was an American broadcast journalist born in Cortland, New York; he died in Washington D.C. As a radio commentator he was heard by people worldwide as the leading voice from Britain during WWII. He was first known as Raymond Swing but adopted his wife's last name in 1919 becoming known as Raymond Gram Swing.
Swing attended Oberlin College, in Ohio. Swing lasted one year before he, an eternal prankster, was kicked out of school for bad behavior. He would later come to appreciate how much Oberlin had given him "in music, in the first interest I had in the other arts, in the basic liberalism of racial and sexual equality." After leaving Oberlin, Swing found work in a barber shop.
Swing's first foray into journalism came at age 19, in 1906 with the Cleveland Press. This was followed by stints for the Richmond Evening News, the Indianapolis Star and the Cincinnati Times Star. At age 23 he became the managing editor of the Indianapolis...
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