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November 1978

Table of Contents

Features

We will all grow old; but, as Maurice Chevalier says, “That’s not so bad when you consider the alternative.”

Fess up now. In your heart of hearts, don’t you hate it, too?

If working hard builds character, these people must be saints.

Cockfighting is probably cruel and certainly illegal, which are only two reasons that attract its aficionados.

Perhaps, after all, girls should go with boys who chew.

At the Fort Worth stockyards, cattlemen buy and sell amid the last vestiges of the Old West.

Holiday gift ideas with a true rustic flavor.

Columns

Good-bye to Main Street.

Politics

All paperwork and no ploy makes Jimmy a dull boy.

Film

Custom wedding photography by Robert Altman.

Art

For Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, art mirrored pain.

Books

Emma Blue spins lovely wheels in muddy issues.

Media

That’s exactly what the Mexican government tries to do when journalists get out of hand.

Dining Out

Of course there is. It’s real Mexican food, not Tex-Mex.

Theater

Hip Pocket Theater keeps taking on challenges it can’t meet.

Popular Music

Wide-open spaces and prairie madness make the special music of Lubbock.

Classical Music

Music from the Dallas Symphony not to read Shakespeare by.

Jazz

Once a year the ghost of Charlie Parker reigns in a Dallas lounge.

Reporter

Reporter

Fighting the foolproof crime, playing games you can’t win, building an ice cream empire, and raising hell in Baylor.

Miscellany

Honorable pension.

Laser Eyes.

Some tidbits and outrages under our very nose.

All’s well that ends well.

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