Swing (Jan-Dec 1953)

Page scan 00045 from Swing

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Jan-Dec 1953
Publisher:
Kansas City : WHB Broadcasting Co.
Volume:
Swing (Jan-Dec 1953)
Leaf #:
00045
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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THE MAN OF THE MONTH of the Westport Presbyterian Church; and, in later years, as a deacon and now a trustee of the Second Pres' byterian Church. A friend and ad' visor to the family for many, many years was the late Dr. George P. Baity, minister of the Westport Church. "He married our parents; buried them; married us and christened our children," says June's beautiful wife, "Scotty." SCOTTY'S real name is Marjorie; June calls her "Marge." When you "talk family" with her she right' ly claims, as does June, to be "really a native." Marjorie is the daughter of the late Charles L. Scott, for many years Kansas City general agent of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company. He married Mary Coppock, daughter of Henry Cop' pock, whose mother was Mary Jane James, daughter of Thomas James. The early day land holdings of the James family (not Jesse's) in Mis' souri included the site of the Herb Woolf farm and later the old Mission Valley Hunt Club, now the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Byron Spencer. Scotty's uncle, Ralph Coppock, held a parcel of 1,200 acres, some of which are now a part of the Mission Hills golf course and residential district. Her grandfather, Henry Cop' pock, gave an acre of his farm for " the first Prairie School. Henry Coppock had to help build a schoolhouse! He had nine children. The old Coppock family mansion has just recently been demolished to make way for the ! Country Club Community Center being built in Prairie Village. As a child, Scotty attended Bryant Grade School, Sunset Hill and West i port High. June had attended Faxon Grade School and graduated ahead of Scotty from Westport High in 1921. A friend of Scotty's was Mary Margaret Moore (June's sister, Mrs. Robert Milton) — and it was Mary Margaret who introduced June to Scotty when the girls were in the sixth grade. This was at the age, of course, when girls got in June's hair. The introduction didn't "take" — at the time. Scotty says: "He was a headache." Scotty went on to attend Penn Hall School in Chambersburg, Pa., a fashionable school for girls which would move intact — faculty, students and' servants — to Ocean City for a month each May. There followed a tour of Europe for Scotty; while June, after a semester at Kansas City Junior College, matriculated at the University of Missouri, where he studied General Arts and "campusology" for twoyears and became a convivial member of Sigma Nu. He left college because no courses were offered that directlytaught the real estate business. JUNE was already working at the* real estate business in these years. He began as a $4-per-week errand boy in his father's business — chased abstracts and kept insurance records — and graduated to selling. He has always been a great "planner" — has the ability to dream dreams, and then work to make those dreams come true. Romance became part of the dream, — with Scotty as its object. The couple had planned to be married September 28, 1929 — a church wedding,, !