Swing (Feb-Dec 1951)

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Feb-Dec 1951
Publisher:
Kansas City : WHB Broadcasting Co.
Volume:
Swing (Feb-Dec 1951)
Leaf #:
000378
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 American Seen TJTE has only three wants: 1951 wages, 1931 prices, and 1911 taxes . . . The JJ pioneering urge kept his great-grandfather forever moving, but "1? Minute Parking" signs do it for him today . . . He curses complex tax reports, then turns to puzzles for recreation . . . He feels affection for shapeless old hats, his wife feels it for shapeless new ones . . . His everlasting problem is to make money first, then make it last . . . You can make him believe prac' tically anything but the words "Wet Paint." . . . When he really begins serving others, he finds he is serving himself as well ... By the time he's forty, he knows happiness and women are alike: both sidle up after you quit chasing them . . . All in all, he lives a good life, mostly because he possesses such a good Constitution. — Roscoe A. Poland. A "Take Me Out To The Ban Game" {Center Spread Photo) On a hot summer night, few places are as cool as Blues Stadium in Kansas City, where the Kansas City "Blues" are fighting for the pennant in the American Association. Our center pages show a vociferous crowd such as will assemble on Radio Night, August 17th. Swing's August Man'Of-The-Month, Henry J. Haskell, became interested in baseball when he was nine years old and introduced the game to Bulgaria. His family taught at the Bulgarian Mission School, which later became the American College of Sofia. For this story, see page 365. For additional information on WHB's Blues Baseball broadcasts, see Larry Ray Talks Sports on page 345 and Swinging The Dial, on page 376. ▲ Editor Don Davis Asiistant Ediiors Chas. E. Rosenfbldt David Etheridgb Circulatiom Manager John T. Schilling Humor Editor Tom Collins Associate Editors FB£D TiMBERLAKE, MARCIA YOUNG, Barbara Thublow Art: Lew Card, Harold R. Currieb, David Etheridgb, Martin Filchock, Hugh Walkinshaw, Robert J. Wilson. Photography: E. Hahn-Millard. Earsom, Ray Fasnan, Swing is published bi-monthly at Kaiuaf City, Missouri, in February, April, June, August, October and December. Address all communications to Publication Office, 1121 Scarritt Building, Kansas City 6, Missouri. Phone Harrison 1161. Price 2 5c in United States and Canada. Annual subscription. United States, $1.50 a year, everywhere else $2.