Swing (Jan-Dec 1949)

Page scan 0007 from Swing

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Jan-Dec 1949
Publisher:
Kansas City : WHB Broadcasting Co.
Volume:
Swing (Jan-Dec 1949)
Leaf #:
0007
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:
August 29, 2024
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lANUARY 1949 Television Comes to Stay A personal prediction by the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission forecasts a spectacular future for television Ptige 3 Where to Qo What to See and "Do The High Spots for Food and Entertainment IN New York, Chicago, Kansas City . . . . 67 Full-JCength aArticles Cures That Mean Death Jean Cameron 9 Soldier on Wheels William J. Murdoch 13 Do You Know Your Real Age? Alex Vernor 17 America's Divorce Dilemma .... William McLa.n Stephens, Jr. 21 Double-Talk Sid Betty and William Waller 25 Eat Rice and Live John Benson 27 King of the Collies Beatrice Tresselt 29 Dat Ole Debbil Lightning Stanley S. Jacobs 33 Longest Day of the Year Richard E. Glendinnlng 37 Toll Bridge: Pawnshop Style James L. Harie 49 Magic AT THE White House .... Walter Gibson and Paid Green 51 Special Features Heavy Dates in Kansas City 2 Man of the Month 45 January Programs on WHB 58 Swing Session 63 Swing in World Affairs 65 Chicago Letter 67 Chicago Ports of Call 69 New York Theatre 71 New York Ports of Call 74 New York Letter 76 Kansas City Ports of Call 77 Index to Swing Articles (1945-1948) 79 THE BEST CARTOONS THE BRIGHTEST LAUGHS