Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)

Page scan 000404 from Swing

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Jan-Dec 1945
Publisher:
Kansas City : Donald Dwight Davis
Volume:
Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)
Leaf #:
000404
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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HOMECOMING (Legend for pictures — pages 33-40) 1. PALMS FOR THE PRESIDENT ... It's the first homecoming for the first president from the state of MissourL The time is late June; the place, the Auditorium — huge domed citadel of the Latter Day Saints, who headquarter in Independence, Missouri, the President's home. Harry S. Truman stands before old friends and new in a new role — a role which becomes him because he wears it simply. . . . Behind him, Mrs. Truman, Margaret, and Mrs. Roger T. Sermon. 2. OUT OF THE BLUE , . . President Truman arrives at Fairfax Airport in Kansas City, Kansas. With him, his daughter Margaret, and of course, a bodyguard. From Fairfax the President and his party drove in open cars through the streets of downtown Kansas City and into neighboring Independence. 3. A PLAIN HOUSE . . . for a "plain man of the people." Both of them began in the 1880's. Now in 1945 the man is Presidenr, his home, the Summer White House. It's a 12-room affair at 219 North Delaware Avenue in Independence. 4. HOME WAS NEVER LIKE THIS! . . . U$ed to be, Harry Truman could walk down the street, into Mayor Sermon's grocery store, in and out of friends' houses — and say hello to them one at a time. Now he has to say hello in the aggregate, to the thousands who flock to the Auditorium for his initial appearance before them as Chief Executive of the land. Said he simply, "Time and again I have tried to fill this great auditorium, and this is the first time I have ever succeeded!" 5. BEHIND SCENES . . . WHB's Chief Engineer, Henry Goldenberg, and Chief Announcer, Bob Dean, keep the program moving smoothly out over the air to the many listeners who were not among those present. 6. FRIENDS OLD AND NEW . . . Mayor Roger T. Sermon of Independence, with Mutual News Analyst Bill Hillraan of Washington, who won the toss to become Radio Pool representative for the Truman trip home and to the West. 7. MEMBERSHIP DE LUXE . . . Gold certificate of membership presented to the President by the Independence Chamber of Commerce. 8. MAYOR SERMON GIVES A PARTY . . . entertains his old friend and • mutual friends at dinner. Mr. Truman is almost lost in the glare at the far end of the table. 9. STAR TIME . . . President Truman pins a gold star on the shoulder of his military aide, Harry Vaughn — from that time on, LieutenantGeneral. It seems to be very much all right with everybody concerned. (Continued, Page 41)