Kansas City is a kind of interior American crossroads and melting pot where the Southerner, the Northerner, the Easterner and the Westerner meet and become plain John American, with America unfolding 'in oceans of glory' in every direction.
Kansas City is not only America's approximate geographical heart, but the center of gravity for her taste and emotion. The soap opera, movie or national magazine that doesn't 'take' in Kansas City won't live long in the nation.
Kansas City is one of the prettiest cities on earth, though few people in the world, or America for that matter, realize it.