Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)

Page scan 000373 from Swing

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Jan-Dec 1945
Publisher:
Kansas City : Donald Dwight Davis
Volume:
Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)
Leaf #:
000373
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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Vol. 1 AUGUST, 1945 No. 8 ARTICLES Piracy In the War Program "Not Alone a Plot of Ghetto Ground ' Write Back at You The Joint That Jumped Genus Hummock William Why the Japanese Character? Marriage — Its Problems and Their Solutions The Champion Columnist What's Your Definition? Let's Hear From the Folks Back Home The New Aristocracy MISCELLANIES Sparrows George F. MaGill 20 That's Fine! Jetta Carleton 53 Miracle Metal Gertrude Doro 48 Favorite War Stories of Frank Singiser and Sydney Moseley 52 Thoughts Worth Repeating 6 Diamond Assurance Malcolm Hyatt 16 Funny Money Dorothy Sara 47 Review of "The Handy Household Manual" 54 Have You Read Your Bible Lately? 44 OUR TOWN TOPICS August's Heavy Dates ■ 2 Ports of Call in Kansas City 68 Swingin' With the Stars 67 Swing Around 71 The War and Allied Matters 66 OTHER TOWN TOPICS Chicago Communique Norton Hughes Jonathan 56 Chicago Ports of Call 58 New York Communique Lucie Ingram 61 New York Ports of Call 63 PICTURES HOMECOMING (President Truman's visit to Kansas City and Independence), 33-40. (See Legend, pages 32, 41) • WHB Newsree!, Inside Front Cover • Danny Kaye, Inside Back Cover. . Fulton Lewis, Jr. 3 Elmer Berger 25 ...Frank Singiser 42 . .James B. Gantt 45 Bill Browne 7 . . . .Arthur Gaeth 13 .John J. Anthony 29 ."Mouse" Straight 49 ...Nicky Jackson 9 . . . Stanley Dixon 21 Lois Peck Ecksten 17 AUGUST is a tawny stupor. By this time, the summer has become a sort of long dream, like a yellow afternoon in which people come and go, and talk and music from no definite source float on the shimmering air . . . and it is as if winter never was in all the world, nor any edge of frost, nor anything but great wallows of green and the stuttering punctuation of flowers and all of it luminous and lovely and stunned. We have reason to believe that in this time peoprle came and went. We have a pleasant feeling left to prove their one time presence. We believe that early in the summer the President came to call . . . that movie stars and a Pulitzer Prize winner came our way . . . and that many words entered our office telling the news of the wide world — of the war that has no summertime . . . the intricate structures of the Japanese character . . . about hillbillies and the theatre and jaz: and food. We think we must have patched all this together to make a magazine, and if we did, here it is with our greetings. But we're hardly sure of anything. It's all too da:cd and yellow and hot . . . Summertime is upon us . . . and we love it.