Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Jan-Dec 1945
Publisher:
Kansas City : Donald Dwight Davis
Volume:
Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)
Leaf #:
000271
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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KANSAS aXY CHURCHES 47 this city that Mr. Lewis lived for several months, meeting with groups of ministers each Sunday afternoon, to gather material for his novel, Elmer Gantry. Among the colored churches, two rank among the largest congregations in the city. One, with a membership of two thousand, was built 23 years ago by its present pastor. Dr. D. A. Holmes. Dr. Holmes is a member of several inter-denominational committees, chairman of a large inter-racial organisation, and a strong political influence among all classes. His wife directs a distinguished choir of fifty voices. Just next door to Kansas City, and within sight from a skyscraper any clear day, is the home of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The huge domed temple is located in Independence, Missouri, world headquarters for this hardy legendary church. It all began with a vision. The vision appeared to one Joseph Smith — and out of it grew this religious body which has undergone innumerable persecutions across the country I from upper New York to the western edge of Missouri. Joseph Smith and his brother were shot in June of 1844 by a mob in Nauvoo, Illinois. Two years later Brigham Young proclaimed himself leader and took his followers into Utah. But the original church, although without a head, still existed in congregational form in many localities, challenging the doctrine of polygamy, which Brigham Young claimed originated in a secret doctrine left him by Joseph Smith. In 1860 "young Joseph," who was only twelve when his father was killed, assumed leadership of the church. He served until his death in 1914. His son Frederick Madison Smith is now president of the church. Court decisions have twice sustained the claim of the Reorganized Church as the successor of that organized in 1830 by Joseph Smith. There are twelve congregations in Independence, including the Stone Church, and ten more in the two Kansas Cities. In Independence also are a publishing house and a sanitarium and hospital owned by the Latter Day Saints. Ten radio programs originate each week from the Stone Church. Christian Science — Unitarian — Spiritual Church of Christ — Pilgrim Holiness — Seventh Day Adventist— Assembly of God — these and many more are represented in Kansas City. We are, literally, the very buckle of the Bible Belt.