Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Jan-Dec 1945
Publisher:
Kansas City : Donald Dwight Davis
Volume:
Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)
Leaf #:
000724
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 December, 1943 STORM WARNING IT was on a Braniff flight between Kansas City and Chicago. The ride had been pleasant, smooth and dream-like all the way. A young woman sat quietly holding her sleeping two-year-old. The child had been in slumberland since the plane took the air. Then quietly the young mother turned to the nice elderly lady sharing the double seat with her and said apologetically: "I'm just awfully sorry to disturb you." "Why?" the other lady replied with astonishment. "You haven't disturbed me. Your little girl has been as good as gold. She has been sleeping all the way." "I know," the mother answered ruefully. "But we are getting ready to land and she'll be mad as a hornet when I have to wake her up." PRECISION BROADCASTS of special events usually slide on the air as smoothly as a turtle slipping off a lily-pad into the water. Not long ago Newscaster Dick Smith and his rather dull stooge (I'm used to it) were at the Kaysee Muny airport to broadcast the arrival of General George C. Marshall. It was that time of the day when DC-3 transports were making an outdoor wind tunnel of the arrival ramp in monotonous succession. How were we to know that one of them contained a passenger by the name of Marshall until he began climbing out of the plane and shaking hands? Well, there he was, and there were wc. Dick grabbed the mike and galloped across the ramp. Engineer Riddle started the transmitter and Mr. Baird, poor Mr. Baird, back at the studio control room, nad two seconds to get it on the air. What? Why, of course wc got the General on the air. Things in radio go off just like clockwork. Life begins at 40 — -and so do fallen arches, lumbago, bad eyesight and the tendency to tell the same story to the same person three or four times. SWING "An Appardtus for Recreation" Editor Jetta Carleton Managing Editor David W. Hodgins Publisher Donald Dwicht D.wis Contributing Staff Chicago: Norton Hughes Jonathan New York: Lucie Ingram ART: Betty Schultheis Marge Eates • Jane Edmiston Flaucy Pearson F. E. Warren ■ Bill Champe • Mignon Beyer Tyke Van Kirk • David Bray Darrel Porter. PHOTOGRAPHY: Hatold Habn Brooks Crumit • 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, $3.00 a year; everywhere else. S4.00. Copyright, 1945. by WHB Broadcasting Co. All rishts 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. S^^^ING is not responsible for the loss of unsolicited manuscripts, drawings or photographs. Address all communications to Publication Office. 1120 Scarriti Buildinc, Ith and Grand. Kansas City 6, Missouri. Printed in U.S.A.