Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Jan-Dec 1945
Publisher:
Kansas City : Donald Dwight Davis
Volume:
Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)
Leaf #:
0009
Language:
English
Subjects:
Radio broadcasting -- Missouri -- Kansas City -- Periodicals, Radio broadcasting -- Kansas -- Periodicals","WHB-AM (Radio station : Kansas City, Mo.) -- Periodicals","Kansas City (Kan.) -- History -- Periodicals","Kansas City (Mo.) -- History -- Periodicals","Cook Paint and Varnish Co. -- Periodicals","WHB Broadcasting Company (Kansas City, Mo.) -- Periodicals.","Cook Paint and Varnish Co -- Periodicals","WHB Broadcasting Company (Kansas City, Mo.) -- Periodicals","Radio broadcasting",Kansas,"Kansas -- Kansas City","Missouri -- Kansas City
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
University of Maryland, College Park
Sponsor:
LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
The official magazine of Kansas City's WHB radio station, SWING printed far more than the station's schedule (which, as the title SWING suggested, relied heavily on music). From 1945 to 1953, SWING offered readers something eclectic every month -- profiles of entertainers on one page, discussions of citizenship in the postwar world on the next, with write-ups of nightlife offerings in KC, Chicago, and New York mixed in. WHB spent decades lobbying the FCC for clear channel status; the magazine's ambitious scope may have been part of the station's attempt to legitimate itself. But it was SWING'S first editor, Jetta Carleton, who later wrote a celebrated novel, that gave the magazine its distinctive style. -- Eric Hoyt, 2015
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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IN KANSAS CITY tasty and tenJer as its reputation was rough and tough." and other foods in the same style. In other words — ""grub" — well prepared, hearty, and heartening. Beef Stew comes in individual Dutch ovens. You may want to take home a menu for a souvenir; but there's a p«ce on them. The place is all done up in buffalo guns, cacti, pine logs, and a painting so old they had to scrape the canvas to find the artist's name. William Barsch has reproduced it in reverse direction on the outside. Smitty's in command up here; probably a friend of yours. BROADWAY INTERLUDE — 3545 firoadivdy. If you can pass the bar, crowd on back and watcli Joshua Johnson make doubletalk on the ivories. The piano is enthroned under some kind of fancy black light that's supposed to enhance the black magic of Johnson's boogie-woogie. You can stay home and listen to his records (Decca); but it's more fun to come down to Jimmy Welsh's for a pleasant interlude with food. drink, and entertainment. Dinner, cooked by John Cannon, is from 5: JO to 11:00. • COLONY RESTAURANT— 1106 Baltimore. One of the newer spots about town. Beyond the plushy rug, the curving staircase, and the palm tree, you'll find a long lounge flanked by a bar. Jack Brown mixes any kind of a drink you ask for; Arlene Terry plays your favorite tunes, any time after five; and Manager Phil Davis or Mrs. Davis sees that everybody's happy. Colony Club chicken and steak dinners are served till nine; the kitchen stays open till midnite. Luncheont, too; delicately priced to just 65 cents. VOL. 1 JANUARY, 1945 NO. 1 SWING is published monthly at Kansas City. Missouri. Price 25c in the United States and possessions and Canada. Annual subscriptions United States and Canada $3.00 a year; everywhere else $4.00. Application for second class entry pending. Copyright, 1944, by Donald Dwight Davis. All rights of pictorial or text content reserved by the Publisher in the United States, Great Britain, Mexico, Chile and all countries participating in the International Copyright Convention. Reproduction or use without express permission of any matter herein in any manner is forbidden. SWING is not responsible for the loss of unsolicited manuf>ripts, drawings, or photographs. Address all communications to Publication Office, 1120 Scarritt Buildins, 9th and Grand, Kansas City 6. Missouri. Printed in the U. S. A. Editor JETTA CARLETON Publisher DONALD DWIGHT DAVIS HuM.^N — That's Truman! Edward R. Schauffler A $500,000,000 Program Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. The Trend op the Times Vice-President Henry Wallace Americanism Upton Close The Chamber and the Super-New Deal Frank A. Theis One Sparrow Does Not Make the Summer Cedric Foster What John Smith Thinks op Hans Schmitt Cecil Brown Adductors I Have Met Dorothea Spaeth The Kid Next Door. Bill Cunningham Hitch Your Theatre to a Star Edith J. R. Isaacs Planned Education Frank Singiser Doi-BLiNG Back John Reed King Senators pgr the Nation Stanley Dixon When Will the War With Germany End? Billy Repaid Whose News Do You Believe? Ray Dady MiiceUcuue4. 25 51 5 n 47 II 29 22 55 57 The Pennv Jar Jane Porterfield 12 Pigeons.. „ -...George F. MaGill 24 Ruby Is a Gem Hannah Fry 67 Early American — George Washington Square S Local Boy — Vice-President Elect Harry S. Truman 33 Stage and Screen Scenes Center Pages Van Johnson and Phyllis Thaxter J6 OuA. *f<UUH *fofucA. Ports op Call Inside Front Cover January's Heavy Dates 2 Philharmonotes 59 Editorial _...„ _ 68