Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Jan-Dec 1945
Publisher:
Kansas City : Donald Dwight Davis
Volume:
Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)
Leaf #:
000657
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:
March 28, 2024
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Vol. 1 DECEMBER, 1945 No. 12 ARTICLES Peace . . . But We Have No Peace Cedric Foster Nightstick Navy Norton Hughes Jonathan What About War Films? William Ornstein Christmas in the Adirondacks Rick Allison After Tomorrow, Whither? Charles H. Hogan Old Sol Will Heat Your Home John Broberg A Pioneer Suffragette Ara J. Gebaroff Hams Are Back on the Air Harry Van Demark The Christmas Story in Art Raleigh Williams Hate Is Everywhere Edward R. Schauffler What Wonders Man Hath Wrought (Pioneer Mother) Wm. Rowley Pretty Looks at Pretty People Carl Revere The Coach, the Man, the Prophet Larry Winn, Jr. Beauty for the Boys Marion Odmark Tung-Yu-Shu-Oil From Trees Ella Allison MISCELLANEOUS Transfusions Once in Disrepute Margaret Benz Alaskan Williwaw A. G. Armstrong Steamboating on Old Miss — 1946 Version Rowland G. Bird OUR December's Heavy Dates Ports of Call in Kansas City. Swingin' With the Stars Swing Around TOWN TOPICS OTHER TOWN TOPICS Chicago Letter Norton Hughes Jonathan Chicago Ports of Call New York Letter Lucie Ingram New York Ports of Call 3 7 11 15 19 21 25 29 32 39 41 43 45 49 51 13 18 23 2 63 66 67 53 55 57 59 PICTURES (Center Section) Christmas art, loaned to Swing by Kansas City Public Library. (Back Cover) The Country Club Plaza, Kansas Cit>\ in Christmas brilliance. Photo by Purd Wright II. house; m HIS IS SWING S FIRST CHRISTMASTIME. We wanted to wish you something special by way of Merry Christmases. But we shopped around and found we could do no better than to wish you Merry Christmas in all its old accoutrements: the stars, the whiff of cedar, the colored lights; the dash from the cold dusk into the warm sweet the tumbled stacks of greeting cards; the crowded trolleys; the readiness to forgive, to kiss, to buy a drink, to love thy neighbor . . the Salvation Army bells ringing the reminder of the poor and the hungry; the carols, the big langorous poinsettias, the stampede, the egg-nog . . . and the Christmas Story, the sudden fierce and earnest yearning to believe . . . this is Christmas. Even though Santa Claus forsakes Dunder and Bliczen for a B-29 this year; even though what Russia really wants for Christmas is the secret of the atomic bomb; even though Santa Claus turns out to be that Man from Missouri; even though shepherds watch their flocks by flood lights, and the wise men bring gifts of uranium — even so, Christmas comes again as beautiful as ever in our hearts. And we wish you peace on earth — with those across the room from you, the folks next door, and the men and women of six continents.