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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: What's So Funny? | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Texan Tempest | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

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