Swing (Jan-Dec 1947)

Page scan 000409 from Swing

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Jan-Dec 1947
Publisher:
Kansas City : WHB Broadcasting Co.
Volume:
Swing (Jan-Dec 1947)
Leaf #:
000409
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
Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

COWTOWN GETS CULTURE by ESTY MORRIS W ART is on tne bum in Kansas «^A.City.,1 Scathing words, spoken by a Kansas Citian 40 years ago, when Miles Bulger, presiding judge of the Jackson County Court in 1907, turned on his home town and gave it both barrels. He spoke with conviction, terseness, and justification. Art was on the bum in Kansas City. The sprawling, surging city, famous for grain and livestock transactions, hub of lengthening railways, just hadn't time for culture. Already there were 300,000 people in the Southwestern gateway, and more were coming. Many were well' educated and sensitive, but to most of the town oil paint was something for a carriage house door. Judge Bui' ger's words were not without basis in fact. Unfortunately, the situation was not remedied quickly. Cultural growth continued slow. Two decades later, Kansas City had few of the fixtures associated with an intellectually pre gressive community. There had been talk, and false starts. A downtown cornerstone had been inscribed "College of Medicine, University of Kansas City." The medical school was there, right enough, a fine one. But the university was wish' ful thinking. In 1919, the committee organized to select a fitting memorial for the dead of World War I had considered the idea of a university. A hot debate raged over the "living memorial versus marble monument" question. Marble won. The result is a strikingly beauti' ful Liberty Memorial, visible for some miles, impressive to visitors, housing war relics and several battle flags. With the dawn of the 1930's, every major city in the United States had a full four-year, non-sectarian university, a symphony orchestra, an art gallery. Kansas City was the sole — the one and only — city of more than 200,000 people with none of these things. Plans were going forward, preliminary purchases and arrangements were being made, but there was nothing the Chamber of Commerce could photograph. True, the system of parks and boulevards was outstanding. Residentially, the city was superior to any in the world. But formal evidences of culture were non-existent. Then the dam broke. In 1933, the city formed a philharmonic orchestra. It acquired a magnificent art gallery and museum of fine art and a trust of over 11 million dollars for the purchase of art objects. And it opened the doors of Kansas City's own university!