Swing (Jan-Dec 1947)

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Jan-Dec 1947
Publisher:
Kansas City : WHB Broadcasting Co.
Volume:
Swing (Jan-Dec 1947)
Leaf #:
0006
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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officials at the opening of their new Kansas City ticket office: E. M. Mattes, General Agent, Passenger Department; G. F. Ashby, President; C. J. Collins, General Passenger Traffic Manager; and D. R. Alexander, General Freight and Passenger Agent. CENTER: James J. Rick and Robert T. Hensley, Jackson County and State of Missouri chairmen of the Infantile Paralysis Foundation, look on as a physical therapist massages a polio victim in the isolation ward of Kansas City's Mercy Hospital. (See page 25.) LOWER LEFT: Vivian Delia Chiesa, soprano and one of America's best dressed women, tells WHB's fashion expert, Sandra Lee, what goes in the world of music and charm. LOWER RIGHT: Ralph Bradford, Secretary of the United States Chamber of Commerce, drives home a point to Kansas City radio listeners.