Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Jan-Dec 1945
Publisher:
Kansas City : Donald Dwight Davis
Volume:
Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)
Leaf #:
000652
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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68 Su '9 November, 194' smashed the glass in a fire alarm box. It wasn't long before eight fire wagons converged from 1 1 directions, and our little hero pitched in to help. And then, all of a sudden — woooosh! All the windows blew out and our friend got a face full. He sorrowfully helped carry out bowling miscellany, shoes, balls, and even stopped for an armful of precious, highly testimonial score sheets. But he stuck around until the pin palace was as burned out as a pin wheel July 5th. And that's the story behind Mr. Strey's bowling average developing a case of dropsy. ( * A small silvery fish, but what dif ' ference does it make?) THAT'S DIFFERENT The vice squad of the (KANSAS CITy) police department was Out giving the policy joints around 18th and Vine a going over not long ago. Guess it was during the first week in October. They had the brawl wagon about half full of lucky number operators when one of the raiding officers glanced impatiently at % his watch. "Tell the boys to get a move on 'em . . . We gotta get back to the station in time to get in on the world's series pool." • MUSEUM PIECE From Florence, Italy, a lieutenant (who once worked on the staff of the l^ew Yor\er} writes to a friend of ours: "Dear D , Spent all day Wednesday with the old masters; the night with the old mistresses. Am now about to come home." NOT FELLEN2 SO GOOD Our old pal Gus Fellenz, who is advertising manager of a Wisconsin news paper, hired a new gal for the classifiec department. He spent the next three weeks fending off irate Methodists anc here's why: (Monday edition) "RUBBISH SALE— Methodist churcF basement. Lunch will be served. Th« public is cordially invited." (Tuesday edition) "RUMISH SALE — Methodist church basement. Lunch will be served. Th public is cordially invited." (A later edition) "RUMMAGE SALE— Methodis church basement. Lunch will be served The public is cordially invited." SWING "An Apparatus for Recreation" Editor Jetta Carleton Mdiidging Editor David W. Hodgins Publisher Donald Dwight Davis Contributing Stajf Chicago: Norton Hughes Jonathan New York: Lucie Ingram ART: Betty Schultheis • Marge Estes • Jane Edmiston Flaucy Pearson F. E. Warren • Bill Champe Mignon Beyer • Tyke Van Kirk David Bray Darrel Poner. PHOTOGRAPHY: Haiold Hahn > Brooks Crumic • Monty Montgomery Norm Hobart • Louise Putman. SWING is published monthly at Kansas City, Missouri. Price 25c in the United States and possessions and Canada. Annual subscriptions. United States, $}.00 a year; everywhere else, $4.00. Copyright, 1945. by WHB Broadcasting Co. All rights of pictorial or teit 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 manu' scripts, drawings or photographs. AddrcH all communications to Publication Office, 1120 Scarritt Building, 9th and Grand, Kansas City 6. Missouri. Printed in U.S.A.