Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Jan-Dec 1945
Publisher:
Kansas City : Donald Dwight Davis
Volume:
Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)
Leaf #:
000178
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:
March 28, 2024
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26 necks out again and again, it is in this degree of naivete that lie the qualities that make for resilience, loyalty, fairplay, and respect of others' individual rights — as well as constant growth. In seeing more we learn more; and our sense of fairplay shows up our mistakes. Our insatiable ambition for progress makes us want to correct them. In this also lies another secret of growth. Hitler stopped growing and started his own downfall, even in the midst of his former victories, when he proclaimed the theory that he and his people were perfect — supermen! Americans, no doubt, are a strange and exciting and enigmatic people, and foreigners have their own mental pictures of us. I recall the owner of a quaint little tea house in Vienna. Swln^ ^Pri\. 1945 Upon learning that I was from the United States, he exclaimed, "An American . . . alone? Why, I thought they always came in droves!" I have seen Uncle Sam's citizens in Java, in China, in Australia, in South America, and all over the world, testing their strength and their weakness in all sorts of conditions. They brought into play those quaUties that go to make life just another ball game ■ — with a fumble just something to be corrected and overcome but quickly! I am firmly convinced that as long as we do not lose our free-wheeling open-mindcdness, our childlike curiosity, our ready faith in others, and begin to think we are perfect — we will be assured of unlimited achievements and no ceiling to progress. Americans are naive . . . thank God! UNIFORMITIES Y 1/c: So Specialist X is conceited? WAVE: Yeah. He joined the Navy to let the world see him. • New SPAR: Where do I eat? Captain: You mess with the officers. New SPAR: Yeh, I know, but where do I eat? — from Facterias. Two soldiers staggered aboard a street car. One of them turned to the nearest uniformed person and offered the fare. "Sorry," said the uniform, "I can't take your fare. I'm not the conductor, I'm a naval officer." "Holy smoke, Joe," shouted the soldier, "let's get offa here! We've boarded a bloomin' battleship!" — from Old American l^ews.