Swing (Jan-Dec 1953)

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on TV. His newest radio show, "Jane Ace, Disc Jockey," stars his wife Jane, a Kansas City girl whom he married in 1922. At that time Ace was a columnist, movie and theatrical critic for The Kansas City Post, the newspaper described by Gene Fowler as "the Bonfils and Tammen shimbun which since 1909r has daily startled Kansas Citians (circulation 190,000) with its crime news and blood-red headlines." In 1922, multi-millionaire Walter S. Dickey bought the Post for 51,250,000, and merged it with his Kansas City Journal. Ace developed as a member of the journal-Post editorial "stable" which included Ed Cochrane, Eddie Meisburger, Earle Smith, Tom Collins and John Cameron Swayze. Ace did his first broadcasting on WHB as "The Movie Man", talking about movies and answering questions. Then he created "Easy Aces", which Don Davis (at that time an advertising agency partner in the firm of Loomis, Baxter, Davis & Whalen ; sold to Arthur S. Bird for Bird's Drugs, Inc., retail drug chain. Blackett-Sample-Hummert took the act to Chicago; and Ace began reading Variety Thursdays. Ace writes: "Congratulations, Don Davis, on the 30th Anniversary of enterprising WHB! The first time I ever knew a microphone well enough to speak to was at WHB in the old Sweeney Building. My roommate, Jane, who used to help me out at WHB claims now that I dragged her up there when she was a child of two. But she does remember you fondly as the man who got us our first big sponsor when we started 'Easy Aces' in Kansas City. However, I personally remember you most fondly for those delicious girls on the WHB swing. All our love and continued prosperity." GOODMAN AND JANE ACE P.S. — Ace now reads Variety on Wednesdays.