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January 1977 features How to Be Southern Grape Nuts Howard Hughes Lives! There Ought Not To Be a Law Little Big Man columns Behind the Lines Paper Tigers [Politics] Prosecution Complex [Books] Basket Cases [Sports] Valley Cats [Lifestyle] Cafe Accompli [Dining Out] Tender Is the Plight [Film] Water Log [Lifestyle] Minutia Man [Cityview] reporter Texas Monthly Reporter [Reporter] miscellany Roar of the Crowd Touts Contest
February 1977 features The Great American Addiction Sniffing » 1977 Bum Steer Awards » The Baptists Want You! Stars and Stripes columns Apple and Oranges [Books] Behind the Lines Coping [Country Notes] Raza Desunida [Politics] The Last Record Store [Records] Works of Ort [Dining In] Just What the Doctor Ordered [Health] A Star Lives On [Film] reporter Texas Monthly Reporter [Reporter] miscellany Roar of the Crowd Touts Contest
March 1977 features The Great Border Bazaar Oops! » Rich Man, Dead Man The New Adultery The Family Way columns Behind the Lines Liberal Education [Politics] Rio Grande Redux [Dining Out] The Coast of Living [Film] Seeing Red [Performance] He’s Got a Secret [Books] Art and Soul [Citywise] Alley Up [Performance] reporter Texas Monthly Reporter [Reporter] miscellany Roar of the Crowd Touts Contest
April 1977 features All Road Lead From Roma Forgotten Places The Lifesavers The Eggheads and I Stereo Begins at Home columns Behind the Lines Allah In the Family [Business] Good as Gold [Country Notes] Right On [Books] Spilling The Beans About Coffee [Dining In] A Long Weekend in Houston [Travel] Hearing Voices [Records] Their Bodies Themselves [Film] The Old Indoorsman [Lifestyle] reporter Texas Monthly Reporter [Reporter] miscellany Roar of the Crowd Touts Contest
May 1977 features Adventures Under the Sea Grand Hotels The Endless Odyssey of Patrick Henry Polk » The Other Texas Unfinished Womenature Eat, Eat, It’s Good For You columns Behind the Lines The Wizard of Oz (Ret.) [Business] Soldiers of Misfortune [Books] Birth of a Notion [Lifestyle] A Case of the Blues » [Records] Catchy Coup [Business] Creole Folks at Home [Dining Out] Bombs Bursting in Air [Film] reporter Texas Monthly Reporter [Reporter] miscellany Contest Roar of the Crowd Touts
June 1977 features The Toughest Guys in Court From Mexico With Love Restoration Drama/ Design The Power Diamonds Aren’t Forever columns Behind the Lines Clothes Made the Man [Business] Informed Sauces [Dining In] Goats Need Love, Too. [Country Notes] Cheap in the Heart of Texas [Travel] reporter Texas Monthly Reporter [Reporter] Texas Monthly Review [Review] miscellany Contest Roar of the Crowd Touts
July 1977 features They’re Playing Their Song Hello, Walls/ Design The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea The Ten Best and Ten Worst Legislators » columns Behind the Lines Cuisine, Cuisine [Citywise] New Dogs, Old Tricks [Great Outdoors] Long Live the Queen [Dining Out] Up, Up, and Away [Sports] reporter Texas Monthly Reporter [Reporter] Texas Monthly Review [Review] miscellany Contest Roar of the Crowd Touts
August 1977 features From Here to Infinity The Greening of Cowtown Gone With The Wind/ Design The Cactus Curtain The Informer columns Behind the Lines Of Bees and Men [Country Notes] Cream of the Crop [Dining In] Bacchus to the Land [Citywise] Pipe Dream [Politics] reporter Texas Monthly Reporter [Reporter] Texas Monthly Review [Review] miscellany Contest Roar of the Crowd Touts
September 1977 features Support Your Local Police » I Was a Spy in the Second Grade Minnesota Fats, Where Are You? The House That Art Built/ Design If They Don’t Win It’s A Shame The House Is Not A Home columns Behind the Lines Masculine/ Feminine [Lifestyle] Meat [Country Notes] The Heretic [Energy] To Herb Is Human [Dining In] reporter Texas Monthly Reporter [Reporter] Texas Monthly Review [Review] miscellany Contest Roar of the Crowd Touts
October 1977 features The Rites of Autumn The Aging of the All-American Boy When The Cheering Stopped The Joy of Cheerleading » Lone Stars What’s Red, White, and Blue . . . And Orange All Over? The Long Road North » columns Behind the Lines Solar On Ice [Citywise] Matzo Luck [Dining Out] Identified Flying Object [Sports] Jennie » [Health] The World to Wine [Country Notes] reporter Texas Monthly Reporter [Reporter] Texas Monthly Review [Review] miscellany Contest Roar of the Crowd Touts
November 1977 features Have Conscience, Will Travel On the Wings of a Dove View From the Top/Design The Last Frontier » A Little Help for Your Friends columns Behind the Lines Between the Sheiks [Dealing] A Very French Bean [Dining Out] Word of the Profits [Business] Port’s Complaint [Energy] reporter Texas Monthly Reporter [Reporter] Texas Monthly Review [Review] miscellany Contest Roar of the Crowd Touts
December 1977 features Help Wanted King of the Catalogs They’re Minding the Store Living in Glass Houses Flash! The Second Battle of the Alamo They Found It! columns Behind the Lines Ol’ Blue [Country Notes] Cheap Frills [Dining Out] Paternity Suits [Lifestyle] reporter Texas Monthly Reporter [Reporter] Texas Monthly Review [Review] miscellany Contest Roar of the Crowd Touts