Swing (Jan-Dec 1950)

Page scan 000465 from Swing

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Jan-Dec 1950
Publisher:
Kansas City : Donald Dwight Davis
Volume:
Swing (Jan-Dec 1950)
Leaf #:
000465
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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LARRY RAY TALKS SPORTS 441 City didn't win the championship, or at least gain the play-offs. This season should be an excellent one. Kansas City became a part of the re-established National Professional Basketball League, embracing eight Midwestern cities. The Pla-Mor Arena, hitherto only used for hockey, has secured a portable floor and will be the home of the new team. The famous Doxie Moore is the commissioner of the new loop. Ben Cockrell is president of the Kansas City team with former WisconsinAllAmerican Paul Cloyd as the new manager. The rest of the league is solid and looks promising. Kansas City, however, will have to make the public forget the second rate attempt at professional basketball started two years ago. Sport Shots In the Dark Legend has it that Shoeless Joe Jackson, the great hitter who was involved in the Black Sox scandal, was very light on reading and writing. However, he did learn to read the box scores and to check his averages. One day he had a better than usual slugging spree and collected four hits in five times at bat. Anxiously he grasped the morning paper to read the box score and to his dismay only three Golf: A game in which a small white ball is chased by a bunch of men too old to chase anything else. ▲ Warden: "I've let you inmates play football, baseball, basketball and still you grumble. What kind of sports do you want?" Lifer: "How about a cross country run?" hits were listed. A friend near by said, "Don't fret, Joe ... it was only a typographical error." "Error, hell," stormed Joe, "no one touched any of those balls." The day at Yankee Stadium when Lou Gehrig was honored for the last time before passing on, many a tear was shed and the celebration was turning into a sad and sentimental swan song. Suddenly Goofy Gomez broke the spell. "What are you bawling about, Lou? It took them fifteen years to get you out of the game and sometimes it takes less than two-thirds of an inning to get me out of there." One of the classics of the past football season was about the referee who was having a rough time with a team which constantly complained of his decisions. Once, as he stepped off a fifteen-yard penalty, the captain of the penalized team joined him in the pacing and said, "Incidentally, Ref, you stink." The referee continued pacing off another fifteen yards, and as he placed the ball down he turned to the player and said: "How do I smell from here?" That's all from Larry Ray this time. I'll be back next issue with more sports stuff and anecdotes. "Faith," declared Mike, " 'tis an unthankful country this is, now. Here we Irish have done so much for the United States, and b'jabers they've named only one state after an Irishman." His friend Pat raised his eyebrows. "I didn't know there was such a state, Mike." "Sure and have ye niver heard o' that western state, O'Regon?"