Swing (Jan-Dec 1953)

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Jan-Dec 1953
Publisher:
Kansas City : WHB Broadcasting Co.
Volume:
Swing (Jan-Dec 1953)
Leaf #:
000151
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.
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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RAYMOND W. HALL 1 The Man of the Month **** by DON DAVIS RAY HALL learned from his father an intrinsic truth which has guided him all his life: "A man can do anything he wants to do, if he has average intelligence and an intense desire to do it." Over his study desk at home is this motto in Old English type: "Konsider the postage stamp, My Son. Its usefulness konsists of its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there." As a boy, Roy determined to be a lawyer. He stuck to it, and his manyfaceted career since young manhood has always been connected in some way with the law. JUDGE CHARLES D. HALL, Ray's father, was a big-scale farmer and banker in Weston, Missouri. He and Mrs. Hall, who had been Laura Brown Williams of Weston, believed in raising a big family. Along with seven brothers and a sister, Ray attended the one-room Hazelwood School taught by Miss Honora Allen at Weston, across the road from the family farm. The brothers would form a team to play baseball against the rest of the school — or they'd gang up in schoolboy fights. The Halls vs. Everybody Else. Everybody Else, that is, except one little chap who was always on the Halls' side: another "Bee Creek Boy" named Albert F. Hillix, who was later to become president of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce and of the Kansas City Country Club. When Ray was about fifteen, his father became probate judge of Platte County, with offices in Platte City, the county seat. Ray's older brother, Decatur, liked horses and the farm; so it was taken for granted that he would be a farmer. But Ray's father decided Ray should work as a clerk in the judge's office. This he did, for two years, until he went to Columbia, Missouri, in 1908 to finish high school. Weston High was not then an accredited high school; so Ray attended University High School at Columbia in order that he might gain admission to the State University.