Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)

72 July, 1945 wanna ever see you again. Listen, Cecil, don't even speak to me. Why don't you sit in that vacant seat? I don't hke you. I don't hke you, Cecil. I hate you! I despise you! Why should you pay for the drinks? "Why don't you get off, Cecil? Go on. You're no good, Cecil. Get away from me! Move over, Cecil. Quit pushing me. You're no good, Cecil. S'lousy trick, Cecil. I give you five dollars and you buy her drinks. You're no good, Cecil. You gave the waitress the change! Listen, Cecil. Why don't you get off right now? I hate you! I despise you! How much was her drink? Sixty cents? Well, where's my other forty cents, Cecil? You gave it to the waitress! How do you like that? I work all day and make five bucks, and he gives it to the waitress! "Get off the car, Cecil. I hate you. Sleep on the davenport for all I care — s'long as it's not with me. Quit crying on my shoulder. Where's my forty cents, Cecil? I don't care where you sleep. Why don't you get off, Cecil! You're no good, Cecil! I hate you! I despise you! "Where's my hat? I've lost my hat! ListcB, Cecil, why don't you just get off? You're no good, Cecil. I hate you! Where is my hat! I despise you! Listen, Cecil, why don't you just get off this damned street car!" • THIS PUNNY WORLD ... We know a Phi Beta Kappa who has great fun with words. He is advertising manager for one of the big furniture companies here in town. A few days back he had a couple of ideas for window card blurbs that we thought superior as such things go. For a display of garden furniture, he wanted to use "Lawn Order." And for some living room stuff in the tres French manner, "Parlour-view, Francaise." . . . He didn't use them though. Not everyone connected with the firm is a Phi Bete who has great fun with words. But they did settle for "Yard Goods" for the lawn furniture. e l/l/innahd i Remember way back in January, Vol. 1, No. 1, of SWING? We offered some prizes for the best letters telling us what you liked or didn't like about our new brainchild? The letters came in — quite a flock of them — and we've come to some decisions. Here they are: First Prize (and —James McQueeney a S50 War Bond) U. S. Naval Air Station Naval Air Primary T. C. Norman, Oklahoma Second Prize (and— Mrs. Joseph A. Zahner a $25 War Bond) Kansas City, Kansas Third Prize (and —Rosemary Walker a S25 War Bond) KMAC San Antonio, Texas And to the rest of those who wrote us — many thanks for swell suggestions, for the praise that sweetened our work and the criticisms that seasoned it well. SWING "An Apparatus for Recreation" SWING is published monthly at Kansas City, Missouri. Price 25c in the United States and possessions and Canada. Annual subscriptions. United States, SJ.OO a year; everywhere else. $4.00. Copyright, 1945, by WHB Broadcasting Co. All rights of pictorial or text content reserved by the Publisher in the United States, Great Britain, Mexico, Chile, and all countries participating in the International Copyright Convention. Reproduction or use without express permission of any matter herein in any manner is forbidden. SWING is not responsible for the loss of unsolicited manuscripts, drawings, or photographs. Address all communications to Publication Office. 1120 Scarntt Building, 9th and Grand, Kansas City 6. Missouri. Printed in U.S.A. Editor Jetta Carleton Publiiher Donald Dwight D.wis Contributing Staff Chicago: Norton Hughes Jonathan New York : Lucie Ingram ART: Flaucy Pearson Betty Schulthcis Jane Edmiston Marion Punchard Eileen Wright Tyke Van Kirk Lucille Stavcr ■ Jcnc Lyon Ferdinand E. Warren Darrell Porter Pavid Br.iy.