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Title
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Airialto Accolade
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Description
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Photos and captions about announcers and performers on local radio shows including Melba Hardaway of W9XBY's "The Friendly Neighbor," Paul Henning of KMBC's movie reviews, Tom Collins and James McQueeny of KMBC's "Diamond City News," and John Cameron Swayze (also a Kansas City Journal-Post reporter and later national network broadcaster) of WHB's ad lib news programs.
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Date
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1936-10
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Kansas City Post
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Description
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File contains pamphlet about the Post's bankruptcy as well as a biographical article about Jack Wally, "chief photographer for the 'Kansas City Journal-Post'" from 1935 to 1940. Born about 1913 and becoming a colleague of John Cameron Swayze at the newspaper, taking pictures secretly "inside the city's most notorious gambling joints" of the 1930s before becoming a printer and camera designer retiring in Overland Park, Kansas.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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The Evening Stars
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Description
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File containing a chapter of a book about John Cameron Swayze (1905-1995), the first anchorman on network news getting his start in Kansas City. Native of Wichita, Kansas coming to Kansas City about 1930 as a journalist for the Kansas City Journal-Post and then "radio announcer on Kansas City's KMBC, the CBS affiliate, which had a tie-in with the paper" from about 1940 to 1944 before moving to Hollywood.
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Date
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1983
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Object Type
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Book
