Swing (Jan-Dec 1953)

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Jan-Dec 1953
Publisher:
Kansas City : WHB Broadcasting Co.
Volume:
Swing (Jan-Dec 1953)
Leaf #:
00097
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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Sports Personalities gather once a year to honor the men and young men of the area who devote their hours of recreation to Youth. By JOHN R. THOMSON Nite of Sports ONE of Kansas City's most pleas' ant traditions is an annual dinner attended by leading figures in the sports world from this area — in honor of the hundreds of men who organize, promote and support amateur sports of all kinds; and particularly, those men who work with youth, giving of their time and effort to create and maintain year-round sports programs. Mushrooming to ten times its original size, the eighth annual "Nite of Sports" dinner held February 8 at the Town House Hotel overflowed into the junior ballroom as the greats of all sports in the Kansas City area accepted invitations to Sammy Dubin's annual party. It was a fitting tribute to the silver-thatched sporting goods salesman who launched the tradition eight years ago with a dinner for forty-eight people. Now Sammy is worrying about what to do when the party outgrows its present home! Dubin picked up the check; but it was underwritten by business and professional men who laid $2,000 on the line so that none of the six hundred guests would have to buy tickets! In fact, tickets are never sold at Dubin's Doings. Although they ask nothing in return, the sponsors of the dinner this year will receive an album of photographs taken that evening. This year, also for the first time, there was a surplus in the treasury. At the suggestion of Larry Ray, WHB Sports Director and the master of ceremonies for all eight "Nites," the sponsors were each sent a refund. Dubin, one of the original organizers of the "3 & 2" baseball program during the war, thought it was only right that some recognition be awarded the men who gave of their time and talent to teach youngsters how to play the national pastime.