Swing (Jan-Dec 1949)

Page scan 00095 from Swing

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Jan-Dec 1949
Publisher:
Kansas City : WHB Broadcasting Co.
Volume:
Swing (Jan-Dec 1949)
Leaf #:
00095
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.

BRUARY 1949 Death Falls Qently A terrifying glimpse of what another war may bring — silent, invisible death for which there is no defense Page 49 YoliVe Being Qypped I Here is the surprising expose of crafty racketeers who fake injuries to swindle your insurance money 3 I THE BEST CARTOONS THE BRIGHTEST LAUGHS 'ull-JQength <iArticles Star Teacher Helen Colton 7 Mass Murder in Massachusetts Williayn J. Murdoch 11 Watchbirds of the Weather J. A. Chapman 15' The Midgets Fly Low George Statler 17 The Sultan of Swap James Y. Otis 23 Your Claustrophobia Can Be Cured! Alviii K. Holmes 27 The Captain Was Kidding Ted Peterson 31 Long Way From Saint Louie Don Marshall 35 Postmen on Ponyback Maurice E. Cotton 51 Safety in Pigtails Fletcher Payne 55 Underdog Bites Man Jules France 57 WHERE TO GO, WHAT TO SEE IN NEW YORK, CHICAGO, KANSAS CITY rectal Features Heavy Dates in Kansas City 2 Tom Collins Says .... 40 Man of the Month .... 45 February Programs on WHB 62 Swing in World Affairs . . 67 Swing Session 69 Chicago Letter Chicago Ports of Call . . New York Letter .... New York Ports of Call . New York Theatre . . . Kansas City Ports of Call 71 73 75 76 78 82 THE MAGAZINE OF TOMO R RO W TOD AY!