Career
Swayze returned to the Midwest and worked for the Kansas City Journal Post as a reporter.
From there Swayze graduated to radio doing news updates for Kansas City's KMBC in 1940 and, reportedly, an experimental early television newscast. In Kansas City, Swayze broadcast news items prepared by United Press Kansas City bureau overnight editor Walter Cronkite. Four years later, Swayze went farther west, to Los Angeles and Hollywood, where NBC hired him for its western news division before moving him to its New York news operation in 1947.
During 1948, Swayze provided voice-over work for the 'Camel Newsreel Theatre', an early television news program that broadcast Movietone News newsreels.
At the same time Swayze proposed and obtained a radio quiz program, Who Said That?. The radio version lasted only a year, but Swayze was an occasional panelist in the television version of the program, which was broadcast on NBC from 1948 to 1955. In the series, celebrities try to determine the speaker of quotations taken from recent news reports.
NBC, meanwhile, made Swayze the host of its national political convention coverage in 1948—the first commercial coverage ever by television (NBC Television did broadcast the Republican National Convention from Philadelphia during 1940 on a non-commercial, semi-experimental basis).
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