Word: crume
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most Texans blame sheer envy for the fact that in recent years Texas has come to rank well ahead of mothers-in-law as a butt for U.S. humorists. Last week in the Dallas News wry Columnist Paul Crume offered another explanation: "Texas is the only thing left in the U.S. strong enough to stand being laughed...
...SNIPING AT us AGAIN!! It compared Author Dorrity to "a wino on an overdose of Sterno [who] lashes out at everything in sight ..." Said East Texas' Kilgore News-Herald: the article "sounds as if an agent for Joe Stalin wrote it." In the Dallas News, Columnist Paul Crume, carefully misspelling the author's name, wrote: "We think the thing to do is to laugh and take comfort in the fact that, since Esquire published the article, Mr. Dorrit didn't get much money for it . . . Esquire is one of those magazines where, when you've botched...