Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)

Page scan 000372 from Swing

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Jan-Dec 1945
Publisher:
Kansas City : Donald Dwight Davis
Volume:
Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)
Leaf #:
000372
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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To Swift the Accolade In its 58th year. Swift and Conipany s Kansas City plant receives the Wai FooJ Administration's valued "A " award, in ceremonies at the Municipal Auditorium broadcast over WHB. Left to right above: Manager E. W. Phelps receives the "A" Award Flag from Rear Admiral E. G. Morsell, U. S. Navy District Supply Officer. "Now we, too, as a group shall have this flag ... a constant reminder that the record of achievement which hos merited this flog shall not be morred." . . . Andrew F. Shoeppel, Governor of Kansas, speaks of the importance of the livestock and meat packing industry to state and to nation . . . WHB's Dick Smith and five pretty girls! Forty-seven of them displayed somples of the large variety of meats which Swift & Company prepare for armed forces and lend-lease. (Martho Logon, home economist for Swift and Company, is heard over WHB ond the Kansas State Network Monday through Saturday, 9:30 a. m.) NEWS REEL Demarest Drops In The two mouths at the mike belong to William Demarest of Paramount Pictures, and Jetto of Swing and "Aisle 3." The popular comedian and character actor come through town to help celebrate Paramount 's One-Third of a Century Anniversary; told Show Time listeners about his Army hospital tours; called all the elevator girls "Mother"; and kept everybody in stitches. Pulitzer Prize Winner Tome'^lTikrln* Kansas City, en route to the Pacific. . . . Stops in at WHB to tell about his work as an AP Correspondent in the European theatre; how he always carried two typewriters, just in case; about the picture based on the writings of his friend, Ernie Pyle, "G.I. Joe." In the picture, Hal soys, his is the face on the cutting-room floor. . . . Hal Boyle always gathers material first-hand, often in the face of real danger, and through his newspaper stories thousands of the folks back home have learned about their sons or husbands, how they lived and fought, and how some of them died. Hal's distinctive style—simple and strong and always touched with something like poetry— won him the Pulitzer Prize this spring for the year's most distinguished correspondence.