Swing (Feb-Dec 1951)

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Feb-Dec 1951
Publisher:
Kansas City : WHB Broadcasting Co.
Volume:
Swing (Feb-Dec 1951)
Leaf #:
000346
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:
March 28, 2024
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The CREAM of CROSBY The New York HERALD-TRIBUNE'S some > times acid radio and television critic often steps I on tender toes. SWING presents more excerpts . from his syndicated column on the subjects: The ] Serviceman, The French Language, TV Color, j Tap Dancers, The New Type Cowboy, TV Style j Shows, and a Consistent Lady. by JOHN CROSBY Crosby In Europe — and Home Again "When this gets into print," John Crosby wrote, "I shall be in Paris, strenuously avoiding all contact with radio and television — a delightful interval." Avoiding all contact? You be the judge. Here are some of Monsieur Crosby's more pungent essays — written from Paris, London and Rome. Along with excerpts from his "normal" columns, written upon his return, wherein he estimates the quality of current American television and radio programs. Happy Birthday, Paris! THE American people have been cordially invited — by poster, by advertisement, by all the marvelous resources of the American press agent — to visit Paris on its 2,000th anniversary. We have always been sentimental about birthdays and are more than ordinarily susceptible to antiquity, having so little of our own. The combination of a birthday and 2,000 years is a powerful and a very clever one. However, if I were you, I wouldn't fall into discussion with a Frenchman on the subject. I never met one who ever heard of this 2,000th anniversary. Parisiens are not only unaware of their city's birthday but inclined — when told about it — to be a little skeptical. Paris is a very old town, all right, but it'd be awfully hard to put your finger on the exact date when it was founded. It was first a Gallic town, then a Roman town called Lutetia for a couple of centuries, and it didn't acquire the name Paris until the third century. The designation of 1951 as the 2,000th anniversary of Paris is completely arbitrary but I'll play along. Perhaps it was exactly 2,000 years ago that Paris was founded. If Rome can have a Holy Year, Paris can have a 2,000th birthday. Let's spread the tourist dollar around. Happy birthday, Paris! Next year it will be somebody else's turn. I suggest my own home town of Oconomowoc, Wis. It was exactly 2,500 years ago next year that an Indian named Okeeboje fell to fishing in the Oconomowoc River, decided it was a nice place to stay and built a tepee there, thus founding the town, which has not grown much bigger since. Drop in on Copyright, 1951, N. Y. Herald-Tribune, Inc.