Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)

Page scan 000416 from Swing

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Jan-Dec 1945
Publisher:
Kansas City : Donald Dwight Davis
Volume:
Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)
Leaf #:
000416
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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44 beach at Salerno. The mother of that young officer wrote me to ask for a copy of my broadcast to add to her collection of souvenirs. I noted from her letter that she lived not far from the broadcasting studio. I called her by telephone, and gave her a "private broadcast" over the phone, reading to her again the dispatch describing her son's heroism. I told her I would be glad to send her the broadcast copy she had requested. This officer's mother begged me to tell her what one thing she might do to show her appreciation. I had promised to appear that week at a War Bond Rally in a large Times Square theatre. I asked her if she Swinf August, 1945 would like to accompany me and al' low me to introduce her to the audience. 'T would be honored, Mr. Singiser, and will certainly be there if it will sell one more bond and bring back our sons one day sooner," was her reply. Not only did she attend the rally with me, but on the stage she bought a bond herself. That night that fan-letter writer sold bonds running into five figures to a cheering audience, who saw in her the mother of every boy in uniform. And she thanked me for answering her letter! A newscaster's fan mail is not all a bouquet of roses. But it's always a thrill to happen upon an orchid among the brickbats. Have You Read Your Bible Lately? Know your Bible as great literature, as well as the source of comfort and guidance. This month's suggested readings include the wisdoms of Job . . . the incomparable poetry of Ecclesiastas . . . the beautiful affirmation of the story of Ruth . . . Wed., August 1— Job 15 Fri., August 17 -Job 36:17-37:24 Thurs., August 2— Job 16, 17 Sat., August 18 -Job 38 Fri., August 3— Job 18:1-19:22 Sun., August 19 -Job 39 Sat., August 4— Job 19:23-20:29 Mon., August 20 -Job 40, 41 Sun., Mon., August 5— Job 21 Tues., August 21 -Job 42 August 6— Job 22 Wed., August 22 — Ecclesiastes 1, 2 Tues., August 7— Job 23, 24 Thurs., August 23 —Ecclcsiastes 3, 4 Wed., August 8— Job 25, 26, 27 Fri., August 24 — Ecclcsiastes 5. 6 Thurs., August 9— Job 28 Sat., August 25 —Ecclesiastes 7 Fri., August 10— Job 29 Sun., August 26 —Ecclesiastes 8, 9 Sat., August 11— Job 30 Mon., August 27 —Ecclesiastes 10 Sun., August 12— Job 31 Tues., August 28 —Ecclcsiastes Mon., August 13— Job 32:1-33:7 11, 12 Tues., August 14— Job 33:8-33 Wed., August 29 -Ruth 1 Wed.. August 15— Job 34 Thurs., August 30 -Ruth 2 Thurs., August 16— Job 35:1-36:16 Fri., August 31 —Ruth 3, 4 EXPLANATION On pages 44 to 47, inclusive, of the April 1945 issue of SWING appears an article entitled "Applying the Golden Rule to Courtship" under the name of Helen Gregg Green as author. The footnotes to that article were inserted by the editor and published without the knowledge and consent of the author, and if any injury or damage arose therefrom it is sincerely regretted.