Swing (Jan-Dec 1949)

Page scan 000449 from Swing

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Jan-Dec 1949
Publisher:
Kansas City : WHB Broadcasting Co.
Volume:
Swing (Jan-Dec 1949)
Leaf #:
000449
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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special message T^'.FFECTIVE with this July-August issue, Swing becomes a bi-monthly pubHcation. It is the feeling of our editorial staff that the new schedule will make possible publication of the finest material available today, and permit Swing to continue bringing you high-quality contemporary non-fiction, fiction, cartoons and art. The September-October issue will be on the newsstands throughout the nation by September 1st; and the November-December issue, November 1st. There will be no other changes in policy or format, and we know you will enjoy Swing in the future as you have in the past. Editor Mori Greiner Assistant Editor Betsey Sheidley Art Editor Don Fitzgerald Contributing Editor JETTA CARLETON Humor Editor Tom Collins Music Editor Bob Kennedy eui York Editor Chicago Editor Lucie Brion Norton H. Jonathan Associate Editors ERNA Dean Ferril, June Thompson holography. Hahn-Millard, Studna-Millard, ay Farnan, Paul Robinson, Murray alaney. Don Fitzgerald, Rachel Weber, F. E. arren, Frank Hensley, Robert Wilson, ^lonie Miller. July-August, 1949 • Vol. 5 • No. 6 Publisher Circulation Manager Donald Dwight Davis John T. Schilling Swin? is published monthly at Kansas o City, Missouri. Address all communications to Publication Office, 1125 Scarritt Building, Kansas City 6, Missouri. Phone Harrison 1161. Price 25c in United States and Canada. Annual subscription. United States, $1.50 a year ; everywhere else, $2. Copyright 1949 by WHB Broadcasting Co. All rights of pictorial or text content reserved by the Publisher in the United States, Great Britain, Mexico, Chile, and all countries participating in the International Copyright Convention. Reproduction for use without express permission of any matter herein is forbidden. Swing is not responsible for the loss of unsolicited manuscripts, drawings or photographs. Printed in U. S. A.