Apparently there's nothing that God has that the Devil doesn't try to imitate!
-Mo

What Is A Good Suit?

WHAT DO YOU DO IF YOU'RE after your own unique fashion style, but have always preferred book stores to clothing stores, Levis to dresses, shorts to skirts, nudity to negligees? This was the situation of two women, Emily and Maria, who were tired of their mirror's image, tired of being walking don'ts of fashion.

True Confessions

ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1973, the La Grange Chicken Ranch, the Oldest Continually Operating Non-Floating Whorehouse in the United States, was closed down. The Texas Chamber of Commerce elected to ignore the passage of an establishment possibly older than all its members; and the State Historical Society, equally misfeasant, overlooked the shuttering of the house that slept more politicians than the Driskill Hotel and the Governor's Mansion combined.

IN SOUTH TEXAS, OCTOBER IS the month for the beach. Rather than hit the sand in July and August when our most vivid memories are likely to be sweat-soaked sheets, hot, sand-blistered feet, infestations of small children, plagues of teenagers on Hondas, sunburned ear lobes and eye lids, we make our move in the fall when the sun is a friend and the resorts practically deserted.

THE CHICAGO BOARD OPTIONS EXCHANGE is the latest investment opportunity to challenge for the title of legitimate Bird Nest On the Ground for investors. Brokers are cheering for the CBOE to make it since the current score is Bird Nests 37, Investors 0.

IT'S NOT YET DUSK, and already the crowd gathers in the October heat: Chains of old ladies holding hands, giggling and calling each other girl. Families with squirmy, sweaty kids. Clusters of teenyboppers. University types. Blacks, chicanos, and dyed-in-the-wool wasps.

They've come together with a common appetite, a newfound desire for culture—make that Culture. These believers make a monthly Sunday night pilgrimage to Austin's Armadillo World Headquarters for an improbable brew: Ballet and Beer.

ALL OF US ARE GOING to have to stop Arthur Temple if he decides to move the headquarters of Time, Inc., to Diboll. We don't care if Diboll is a nicer place to work than Manhattan, Arthur, you should have thought of that before you went ahead with the deal.

Books by the Volume

O. K., we know you've been to used book stores before and you're not likely to get excited at the idea of rummaging through paperback editions of Valley of the Dolls and Grab Your Joystick which is why we're recommending a little, out-of-the-way book store in San Antonio, The Village Bookstore. The books are used, but they tend more to rare and fine books on selected subjects than those haphazard collections of practically everything found in most used book stores.

WHEN GERALD HINES, HOUSTON'S own Edifice Rex, built the Galleria complex, he combined under one translucent pleasure dome the elite of the merchandising world.

Below are suggestions of places to eat in and around The Galleria.

EL FENIX