Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)

Page scan 000413 from Swing

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Jan-Dec 1945
Publisher:
Kansas City : Donald Dwight Davis
Volume:
Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)
Leaf #:
000413
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 ('Picture Legend, Continued^ 10-14. UNIVERSITY WELCOME . . . The University of Kansas City feted the President with a full afternoon and evening of speeches, entertainment and honors. On the green and beautiful University campus, honored guests and faculty lunch al fresco while spectators hover just a secret service man away . . . The President is adorned with a lei of flowers presented by one of the younger participants in the afternoon's pageantry. Clarence R. Decker, young president of the University, smiles approval from before the speakers' stand. . . . Harry Truman talks informally and genially to the hundreds gathered on the campus . . . speaks of his early days in these parts; how his formal education was interrupted by the press of affairs; how he managed two years of law school somewhere along the line in a busy career as soldier (artillery captain. World War I; fought at St. Mihiel and the Argonne); farmer (once owned several hundred acres of Missouri land) ; retailer (the haberdashery will go down in the annals); and politician (Judge of County Court). 15. ACRES OF FRIENDS ... In the arena of Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium, more crowds gather for the conferring of the degree. Honorary Doctor of Laws, upon President Truman. 16. INTERESTED ONLOOKERS . . . The First Lady and her daughter Margaret, behind orchids and in front of Lt.-Gren. Harry Vaughn. The grim face in the background belongs to another secret service man. 17. "BY AUTHORITY VESTED IN ME" . . . From president to President — both in mortar board and bishop sleeves. Clarence R. Decker bestows upon Mr. Truman the highest honor the University can give. Now it's Harry S. Tnunan, LL D. 18. FLAG DAY . . . for yet another great day in the life of our newest President. . . . The platform with banners. Municipal Auditorium, June 21, 1945. 19. THE PRESIDENT AS A WHB-MBS LISTENER . . . Even a President has to relax once in awhile. In the home of Mayor Sermon of Independence, Harry Tniman listens to WHB's broadcast emanating from the next room and going out over the Mutual Network. ... At 61 the President is still trim, sound, and in the pink, with what his New York tailor calls a beautiful figure. He has an easy middle-western charm; he does not "offend with superiority." And he's a showman of a rather rare and wonderful sort — showman enough to know that to be as brilliant as the briHiance that has gone before, he must not try to eclipse — only to emulate — and therefore to achieve the same thing in his own way. . . . Another long involved day is ending. The President will sleep in his own house tonight, breakfast tomorrow on fruit, toast, and a glass of milk, and take up again the duties of "the new pilot (who) was hurried to the helm in a tornado." Home was Independence . . . now it is the United States of America. Photographs, courtesy oj Foto Service, Kdnsas City, Missouri.