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Lovers|
February 1, 1988

The Seven-Year Hitch

In 1981 these romances made the Dallas Morning News. We find out who’s loving happily every after.

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Lovers|
February 1, 1988

My Wife’s Husband

We were in love in a way I didn’t quite trust. There was nothing grand or electric about it, just a steady, deepening insistence.

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Friends|
February 1, 1988

Cafe Queen

Amarillo’s best waitress can dish it out and serve it up too.

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Family|
February 1, 1988

Flying Solo

With a mother in one city and a father in another, Audrey Reynolds took to the air.

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Family|
February 1, 1988

An Old Five-and-Dimer

My Mad Dog days behind me, I’ve found contentment with young jackanapes at my feet and the girl of my dreams beside me.

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Community|
February 1, 1988

Now For the Weather

When a rural Texas says, “It looks like rain,” he’s really meditating on the nature of the universe.

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Community|
February 1, 1988

The Banker’s Lament

Everybody loved Susi Tucker when she was giving money away. Now the notes are due, and the good feelings are in escrow.

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Community|
February 1, 1988

The Promised Land

Can a New York employee of J.C. Penney find happiness amid the hustle and bustle of Plano?

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Community|
February 1, 1988

Called to Care

A friend’s illness propelled a Baptist minister from a life or though to a life of action.

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Lifestyle|
January 1, 1988

Sweet Fifteen

More than an excuse for a good time, the Mexican quinceaera party is a fifteen-year-old girl’s rite of passage.

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State Secrets|
January 1, 1988

State Secrets

Does Texaco have a chance in the U.S. Supreme Court? Dukakis and Gore fight over Texas; a bad start for Kent Hance; the latest Disneyland-comes-to-Texas tale.

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Roar of the Crowd|
January 1, 1988

Roar of the Crowd

Speaking up for unsung cowgirls; Greeks bearing gripes; Libertarians looking for a landslide.

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Reporter|
January 1, 1988

Texas Monthly Reporter

Down but not out in Bent Tree; dishes only the devil could love; hello, Wal-Mart; stupid napkin tricks; gossip boys and Gorilla girls.

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Music|
January 1, 1988

Chantilly Lace and A Jolly Face

When Texas songwriter the Big Bopper died with Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens in a 1959 plan crash, his hit “Chantilly Lace” became the end rather than the beginning of a national career.

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Travel & Outdoors|
January 1, 1988

The National Tour of Texas

Out itinerant reporter visits with a Lubbock man determined to preserve the American Way of Life; the doughty clan that brought beer to Levelland; a windy lady fascinated with the weather and a rusticated professor gone to seed.

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A conceptual photo illustration of a model stand-in for Reverend Walker Railey, with a shadow of a cross obscuring his face.
True Crime|
January 1, 1988

The Sins of Walker Railey

He had a wife and a girlfriend. His ambition was unchecked. He tried to commit suicide. But when I came face to face with the minister of my boyhood church, the sin we talked about was murder.

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Bum Steers|
January 1, 1988

1988 Bum Steer Awards

A year of clumsy Clements, stupid stickups, ripped-off Rangers, cockeyed cops, agitated alligators, rotund cockroaches, jumpy judges, nitwit newsmen, addled Aggies, naughty newlyweds, randy retirees, and a pestered pontiff.

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Education|
January 1, 1988

Not What the Doctor Ordered

When Houston’s Hermann Hospital sought a cure for its financial ills, it decided to perform major surgery on its agreement with the UT medical school next door.

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