Swing (Jan-Dec 1953)

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Jan-Dec 1953
Publisher:
Kansas City : WHB Broadcasting Co.
Volume:
Swing (Jan-Dec 1953)
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.
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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Volume 9 • Number 1 Published By RADIO STATION WHB ANSAS CITY, MISSOURI A Wholly Owned Subsidiary of e Cook Paint & Varnish Company W X Clarence Manion Addie Jo Sharp John Crosby Larry Spain Photographs Don Davis Florence Jansson Joseph Paparas Harry Fawcett John K. Walsh James L. Harte Jac\ Starr John Thomson John Crosby • **S OF S*> WHB Kansas City's Oldest Call Letters PAGE 2 Blueprint for Freedom 1 5 Live Your Own Life — A Story 18 The Cream of Crosby — Radio and Television 3 1 He's Giving the Indian a Break 34 WHB Newsreel 3 6 The Man of the Month — John A. Moore 47 WHB Program Schedule 54 Safe With Ellen— A Story 73 Inside the Pentagon 75 Andre Simon and the Kawnsas Ceety Braanch 78 Virgin Water 82 Bettor English 86 He Sells a Million a Year 91 The "Nite of Sports" 94 Apple-Polishing, Back-Stabbing and Other Sports ART Glenn R. Bernhardt Joe E. Buresch Harold R. Currier Chas. H. Dennis J. G. Farris iw. (Jalop) Gilardi Martin Giuffre Bill Gray Hagglund Wilbert L. Hawver Ueorge Howard, Jr. Charles Rodrigues Joseph H. Serrano Alvin Sherman Kirk Stiles O. R. Tupper C. T. Waters Hugh Walkinshaw EDITOR Don Davis ASSISTANT EDITOR Dorothy Fox ASSOCIATES Tom Collins John T. Schilling Fred Timberlake Marcia Young PHOTOGRAPHY Bob Earsom Hahn-Millard Ray Farnan WING is published bi-monthly at Kansas City, Missouri. Address all communications to Publication Office, 1121 Scarritt Building, Kansas City 6, Missouri. Phone Harrison 1161. Price 25c in United States and Canada. Annual subscriptions. United States $1.50 a year; everywhere else $2. Copyright 195 3 by WHB Broadcasting Co. All rights of pictorial or text content reserved by the Publisher in all countries participating in the International Copyright Convention. Reproduction for use without express permission of any matter herein is forbidden. Swing is not responsible for the loss of unsolicited manuscripts, drawings or photographs. Printed in the U.S.A., 195 5.