ON THE COVER: Cover photography by Ron Scott
January 1978
Table of Contents
Features
The Last of the Big-Time SpendersIt’s not Diamond Jim Brady, Bet a Million Gates, an Arab sheik, or Liberace. It’s a library. 1978 Bum Steer AwardsLast year’s biggest bloopers, bleepers, blunders, bungles, boo-boos, bad breaks, bobbles, bevues, balks, and Briscoeisms. |
Art Yucko / DesignHow we learned to stop worrying and love the fifties. The Good Old GirlsAt the National Women’s Conference, the feminists changed their sandals for pumps and embraced mainstream America. |
Columns
Behind the LinesLike most wrong ideas, the concept of the sunbelt didn’t matter until people started putting it into practice. PoliticsCorpus DelictiCorpus Christi is the victim - what is the crime? LifestyleThe Line Forms HereIt’s tough to select food in a fast-moving serving line. A cafeteria is no place for the timid. |
DealingSplit DecisionAnalysts can’t decide whether Tom Browne, Inc., is a silk stock or a sow’s ear. Country NotesPoultry in MotionThere are two ways to raise chickens: the right way and this way. |
Reporter
ReporterTexas Monthly ReporterLarry Flynt hears the call; everyone hears Bob Bullock; McConn job in Houston; ghost in the newsroom; and cotton on the dinner table. |
ReviewTexas Monthly ReviewRoyal women reign in Houston; Spanish artist eats dough; new novel for the operating table; more UFOs from Hollywood; wanted: a conductor for the San Antonio Symphony. |
Miscellany
Roar of the CrowdLast words on the West, the remains of the defenders of the Alamo, and Larry McMurtry’s sagging shelf. ToutsHot tubs and chili pots. |
ContestSaying will make it so. |
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