Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)

Page scan 000153 from Swing

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Jan-Dec 1945
Publisher:
Kansas City : Donald Dwight Davis
Volume:
Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)
Leaf #:
000153
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.","Cook Paint and Varnish Co -- Periodicals","WHB Broadcasting Company (Kansas City, Mo.) -- Periodicals","Radio broadcasting",Kansas,"Kansas -- Kansas City","Missouri -- Kansas City
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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Vol. 1 APRIL, 1345 IVn. 4 ARTICLES Radio Reports San Francisco and World Peace . Arthur Gaeth 3 World Freedom of Press and Radio Kent Cooper 37 Schemes to Take Your Money George M. Husser 15 Can Labor Unions Strike Twice? Frank Singiser 9 Slips That Pass in the Mike Ray Dady 7 Americans Are Naive! Melita O'Hara 23 Great Day! Jane Porterfield 3 1 Doubling Back John Reed King 11 40 Beautiful Girls 40 Marion Odmark 27 The Human Nature of the Enemy "Human Adventure" 29 Applying the Golden Rule to Courtship .... Helen Gregg Green 45 Your Problem, Please John J. Anthony 42 Salat Time in the Ozarks Verna Springer 19 Movies for the Theatres of War William Ornstein 49 MISCELLANIES Dumbarton Oaks in an Acorn Shell "Reviewing Stand" 5 Zoo-OLOGY Edward R. Schauffler 14 Rich Uncle George S. Benson 18 Fashion Shines in the Rain Kay Daniels 48 OUR TOWN TOPICS April's Heavy Dates 2 Ports of Call in Kansas City 52 swingin' with the stars 51 You Can Help 56 OTHER TOWN TOPICS Chicago Communique Norton Hughes Jonathan 57 Chicago Ports of Call 59 New York Communique Lucie Ingram 62 New York Ports of Call 64 PICT L' RES J. Harold Ryan, 33 • Marguerite Chapman, 34-35 • L. Welch Pogue, 36 WHB Newsreel, Inside Front Cover • Liberty Memorial, Back Cover IT IS, pretty people, assuredly spring. There was a time when we thought spring was merely a rumor, some gossip that got about. But now we know. It's spring when the newsie on the corner of 10th and Walnut puts up the flaps of his caps; when a chemical something you can neither name nor suppress makes you look with new and impersonal passion at someone who isn't your wife or your true-love; when forsythia butters the Plaza, and no more ice skates alight at the Pla-Mor. It's a funny thing about this indecisive season. You're never quite sure whether things will bloom or not. It's the season of holding one's breath. The springtime of our little magazine has been typically dubious. (You know — paper shortage, freezes, things of that sort). But it's out at last — no orchid, maybe, but heartier if humbler than that. So shout a little with us, won't you, and let's all go fly our kites!