In the late 1960s Reamy also organized and became chairman of Dallas fandom 's long-running " Big D in ' 73 " bid to host the 31st World Science Fiction Convention . He also edited and designed the bid 's official publication , '' The Dallascon Bulletin '' , which , like '' Trumpet '' , used photo-offset printing . Nothing like them had been produced by previous Worldcon bidders . Each issue 's appearance polarized strong support for or against the Texas bid , due to its widespread , free circulation to 6000 , and the large amount of paid advertising each issue carried . As a result , the Texans were sometimes accused of trying to buy a win for the Dallas bid . Ultimately , the long-running Dallascon bid collapsed for complex reasons unrelated to this controversy , several months before 1973 's site-selection vote was taken at Noreascon , the 1971 Worldcon in Boston . As a result , the Toronto bid won the 31st Worldcon , becoming Torcon II
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