Swing (Jan-Dec 1953)

Page scan 00044 from Swing

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Jan-Dec 1953
Publisher:
Kansas City : WHB Broadcasting Co.
Volume:
Swing (Jan-Dec 1953)
Leaf #:
00044
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:
August 29, 2024
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38 S> studying the latest such buildings constructed in other cities. He feels that an apartment building of this type — with its conveniences, location, beauty and dignity — will appeal primarily to married couples who no longer re quire a large home because their children have grown up. Or that such quarters will be ideal for widowed grandmothers who want guest space for family visits. Or that elderly wifeless gentleman might find living in such apartments preferable to the accommodations available at their Clubs. The development will be a "luxury apartment" building, in conception and in fact. THESE real estate activities Moore conducts as president of John A. Moore ii Company, Kansas City's oldest real estate firm, dating back to its organization as the Rieger-Moore Realty Company located at Sixth and Main Streets in 1879. The Moore of the firm then was John A. Moore, Sr., who was 50 years old when Junior was born, July 13, 1904. Senior's father was a Cumberland Presbyterian minister, the Rev. Albert A. Moore, who came up from Kentucky to settle in Wellington, Missouri, in 1820. He was a circuit rider in the days when ministers of the gospel rode horseback to serve a number of communities. The Reverend Moore was one of the founders of the Westport Presbyterian Church in Kansas City (when the town was "Old Westport") — and a memorial window commemorating him may be seen in the present church building. But there are more Moores in the in9 story! Both sides of June's family were named Moore. June's mother was Velma Moore, a blue-eyed, brown-haired beauty, daughter of John Jasper Moore. His father (June's great-grandfather) was William Moore, a veteran of the Revolutionary War and a captain in the War of 1812 who moved westward to Missouri from Virginia to a land-grant homestead in Jackson County. The log cabin he built then is still intact. With him came June's greatgreat-grandfather, Travis Moore. Out in Independence, Missouri, is a tablet to William Moore's memory, as one of three revolutionary soldiers residing in Jackson County. June's "Uncle Milton" Moore was a general of the Missouri Militia in the SpanishAmerican War, and president of the Kansas City School Board for ten years. His mother's uncle, John W. Moore, was mayor of Kansas City in 1885-6. The Moores on both sides of the family were all Gaelic-Presbyterians of Scotch-Irish descent, imbued with a deeply religious spirit which has continued in June's activities as a youthful usher at the Linwood Presbyterian Church; as a young deacon