Swing (Jan-Dec 1953)

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Jan-Dec 1953
Publisher:
Kansas City : WHB Broadcasting Co.
Volume:
Swing (Jan-Dec 1953)
Leaf #:
000157
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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THE MAN OF THE MONTH 147 Starlight Theatre; and a new bridge across the Missouri River. On the docket are twenty such major projects for greater Kansas City, including an inter-regional system of express highways; a new stadium-armory; a new public library; a Jackson County library with branches in all towns of the county; plans for the economic development of the area; and thirty or more other projects under study. BUT WHAT ABOUT this fellow Hall as a person'! Well, he's cer' tainly one of the most modest, friendly people you'll ever meet — a good listener, loyal, sympathetic. His quiet sense of humor delights his friends and golf partners — one of his hobbies (work is first!) being golf. During the football season, he and Ann manage to get down to Columbia for most of the Tigers' home games. Back in the mid-twenties, when the old Shubert Theatre on 10th Street had a new road-show play or musical comedy every week all winter, three front-rows of Phi Gams had tickets together in "Peanut Heaven" (the top gallery) every Thursday. The young-married Halls never missed a show! Though he was trust officer of the First National Bank at the time, it never occurred to Ray Hall that he might appear undignified in a top-gallery theatre seat. Their travels have taken the Halls to Hawaii, to South America and to Europe. Ray is a Rotarian; and on a trip to Lima, Peru, he carried along a Kansas City Rotary Club flag to present to the Rotarians of Lima. Aboard his ship were two young senoritas who had been attending school in Gulfport. Although Ray had spent several years learning Spanish, and had clients in Mexico, he wrote out his flagpresentation speech in English; and the beautiful young senoritas provided a Spanish translation, then rehearsed him in it. In Lima, the president of San Marcos University suggested to Ray that if he wanted to get a real burst of applause, he might add a paragraph saying that he liked San Marcos University so well that he would like to send his son there to school. This Ray did. The speech was a tremendous success; and the applause was as predicted. Ray learned other Spanish, too — he can dance the rhumba, the samba, and the mambo. "Ray's a conservative, but not an old-fashioned dancer," say his partners. The Hall's European journey last summer had three magnificent highlights. They lunched with the Honorable and Mrs. Winston Churchill at No. 10 Downing Street; visited General Eisenhower at S. H. A. P. E., and were received in audience by the Pope in Rome. Switzerland is Ray's favorite European country; and he likes the city of Lucerne best of all.