Texas Almanac, 1943-1944 Page: 298
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298 TEXAS ALMANAC -1943-1944
Texan's Book Gives Marked Attention to
The Dallas News and Certain of
Its Staff Members
TEXAS: A WORLD IN ITSELF was a 1942 product of
George Sessions Perry, nationally-known author. In this
nonfiction book, Mr. Perry revealed, with an overtone of
good-natured raillery, what is under the exterior of Texas
at a time when the world was beginning to be amazed
at the active role of Texas in this war.
ACCORDING to Mr. Perry's book, Dallas is "where
what is commonly regarded as civilization has made
its greatest strides in Texas." He cites success of grand
opera in Dallas to prove his point. Dallas is the one stop
in Texas made by the Metropolitan Opera Company when
it goes on tour. He centers much of this aesthetic (and
box office) activity around The Dallas News and its en-
tertainment editor, John Rosenfield. Dallas is also the
center of book buying and of the literary arts, generally,
Mr. Perry points out. Among the capable writers which
Dallas has, the "heavyweight champ is John McGinnis of
the English department of Southern Methodist Univer-
sity" (incidentally, Dr. McGinnis is also editor of The
Dallas News' famous Book Page). Among his associates,
named by Arthur Perry, are "Wayne Gard, biographer,
and Sam Acheson, political historian and Boswell to The
Dallas News." (Mr. Gard is a staff editorial writer on
The Dallas News, as is also Sam Acheson.)
As reconciler between Dallas' dynamic economic
characteristics and its aesthetic leadership in Texas, Mr.
Perry names The Dallas News, "the thing that makes it
(Dallas) a dignified go-getter, a patron of the arts, a
nerve center in the battle against cotton and associated
reactionary influences in Texas." The Dallas News he
characterizes as "a great paper because it has immense
institutional pride and esprit de corps and a kind of
Olympian arrogance of viewpoint (remember what we
said about raillery!). Quoting further: "The News con-
siders itself the spokesman not only for Dallas, but for
Texas, and where the interests of Texas are concerned,
The News won't hold its fire."
The literary review of this book, by our Sam Ache-
son, was printed in The Dallas News Book Page, Sunday,
October 11, 1942.
Sr ana' LaorniNg pere
Texas' Leading Newspaper
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