Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Jan-Dec 1945
Publisher:
Kansas City : Donald Dwight Davis
Volume:
Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)
Leaf #:
000261
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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The ^J^erita^e and the ^nlieritor "The King is dead! Long live the King!" With an affirmative outlook, CECIL BROWN highlights some differences — and likenesses — between the late President and the new President. < HOME OFFICE When "The President" went up on the door of 649 in Kansas City's Federal Building, no one asked the sign painter, "President of what?" All the home folks know this is Harry Truman's work quarters when he pays Jiiis native state a visit. Here WHB's Dick Smith talks things over with Milt Grafrath, who has put some of the best names in town on some of the best doors. But this one is the tops. TINI'S BEAR SKIN To make a photograph like the one on our center pages, you first get Dr. Richard L. Sutton, famed Kansas City hunter and explorer, to shoot a bear. Then you ask Tini Anders to bring a negligee to the Hahn-Miilard Studios. There, Harold Hahn photographs her— with results as shown. Miss Anders, of Kansas City, has been nominated for WHB's 1946 Swing Girl. Do we hear a second? < (On Friday night, April J 3, 1945, Cecil Brown's regular news commenfary for the Mutual Broadcasting System was noticeably discerning and forward-looking. We present here Mr. Brown's broadcast, in part, as he gave it on the day after the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.) TONIGHT, people everywhere are saying: "Why did he have to die when we need him so much?" People are asking that question because Franklin D. Roosevelt was so very much more than a president. He was the great symbol of a new freedom, and the promise of a better world of decency and equality. In the midst of their sorrow, people are also apprehensive. People are studying the photographs of President Harry S. Truman, and wondering: Does he have the stuff? Can this mild-appearing man from Missouri — untried, untested, inexperienced— stand up to Churchill and Stalin? Can Truman direct America toward this brave new world? Can he help us reach the rendezvous with destiny, that Roosevelt spoke about?