Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)

Page scan 000199 from Swing

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Jan-Dec 1945
Publisher:
Kansas City : Donald Dwight Davis
Volume:
Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)
Leaf #:
000199
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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APPLYING THE GOLDEN RULE 47 He had been "courting"^^ a girl for several years when suddenly one moonlight night he said to her, "My dear, I have decided I do not want to get married. I am sorry to tell you this but I feel it the fair thing to do." The girl's eyes flashed and she replied spiritedly, "It is indeed the thing to do! Neither do I want to marry you." The next day Anne left for a visit with a rich uncle in a city some miles distant from her home town. The papers published pictures of the lovely girl and described the wonderful time "the popular Anne Lindsay is having as the house guest of her uncle." Reports came back of Anne's popularity. Her former fiance was told she was flamboyantly happy and carefree. The chagrined young man came time and again to my father. "I thought David was going to lose his mind," my father confided to my mother. "He wrote letters begging Anne to return and marry him." Part of the letters were returned unopened. At long last he boarded a train and almost by force took Anne to the minister's. Playing with the hearts of women is a serious matter}^ Men who want ITThe quotation marks are not ours. to live by an honorable code^* should do a lot of thinking before they permit a human heart to become a toy for their whims and pleasure. "All men kill the thing they love" is too often literally the case. There are certain obligations and trusts which should be shared and understood during the courting period. Naturally, a few casual "dates"^" hold no importance. But when a man does everything within his power to make a woman care deeply, to cause her to love him mentally, physically, spiritually, do you not agree it is up to him to follow through with a frank statement of his intentions and expectations?^^ Should there not be fairness and honor in a relationship as fine, sacred, and meaningful as a courtship of several years? When a man is doubtful about the right thing to do let him say to himself, "Am I applying the Golden Rule in my courtship?" and the answer will indeed^^ lead him to the path of honor and fair play.^' 19Know any? 20Cf. note 17. 2iPreferably engraved on sine. 22Watch your language, therel ISNcither are the italics. 23 "Hope springs eternal etc.