Hell on Wheels
In which John Howard, our toughest athlete, goes after a world bicycle record and hopes america will care.
In which John Howard, our toughest athlete, goes after a world bicycle record and hopes america will care.
Texas' glass artists are leading a revolution in an ancient craft.
Shoot enough portraits of Texans, and you'll have made a portrait of Texas.
In The Path to Power Robert Caro brings the Texas of the twenties and thirties to hot, scrubby life, but tries to fit the young Lyndon Johnson into a prefabricated and constricting mold.
String the lights, hang the tinsel and the expense. It’s Christmas and the decorated homes of Texans are second to none.
Does Texas’ greatest college coach miss football? Nope.
The bright-eyed, pink-cheeked cream of Texas youth aren’t scrambling on the football field. They’re playing in the high school band.
George Jones really lives the way he says he lives in the songs he sings.
He was wildly eccentric, he lived in a shanty on the Gulf, he subsisted as a bait fisherman, he had bizarre notions of eternal life. He may have been the best artist Texas has ever produced.
It was simple, really. With Charlie’s Angels, television discovered sex.
Four performers in Dallas are making a new kind of music that combines precision, grace, and crazy humor.
Drew Pearson, Tony Hill, and Butch Johnson are wide receivers for the Dallas Cowboys—in other words, they’re artists, egomaniacs, fierce competitors, and the heart of the team.
All this twenty-year-old University of Houston student wants to do is jump farther and run faster than anyone else ever has.
Why knock yourself out for two grueling weeks at a piano competition in Fort Worth? For $12,000—and a string of concert bookings money can’t buy.
Onstage, all happy lounge acts are alike; offstage, all unhappy lounge acts are unhappy in their own ways.
Welcome to Highland Park, a small town right in the middle of Dallas where the living is easy and time stands still.
Football has degenerated into a routine encounter between two sets of programmed, steroid-stuffed robots. These trick plays could change all that.
Two brave bulls stood between Paco Olivera and the prize he had worked for all his life.
Texas’ most glamorous mall has all the comforts of home and then some. So why not move in?
If throwing a spitball is an art, Gaylord Perry is Michelangelo.
‘The Icebergs’ is the most expensive American painting in history, but it is also the center of an art-world mystery with a trail leading from an English boys’ school to a Dallas millionaire.
In a big fight you can outwit, outhit, or outlast your opponent. But you’d better not try to outeat him.
How Gordon McLendon stormed Texas with Top 40 . . . da doo ron ron.
We don’t know how you learned about the birds and the bees, but we’ll bet you learned about love the same way we did: from the movies.
The best part of Texas high school football is that it’s the biggest thing in town—and still only a game.
Don’t look now, but the rather odd gentleman with the suspicious accent and outlandish military getup may not be exactly what he seems.
Houston welcomes a classy Paris fashion designer with a rootin', tootin', ripsnortin' wild West show.
Our photographer runs away to the circus.
His friends say the king of country rock is getting mellow. The question is, mellow compared to what?
The newest style of manly hatwear.
Amid blaring trumpets, raised fists, bottles of beer, and a cheering mob stands the king of Saturday night.
At the top, a good family helps, clothes help, manners help, the right friends help, but nothing helps like money.
What happens when a high school football team tries to bench its coach?
Inside the cushy private boxes at Texas’ top sports stadiums, far from the madding crowd.
One week with a thousand cheerleaders.
Where are the cheerleaders of yesteryear?
Roger Staubach is one Cowboy who always wears a white hat.
You don’t have to be crazy to attend Texas-OU Weekend, but it helps.
In the bush leagues, rooting for the home team can be a humbling experience.
What do you do when you have more paintings than walls to hang them on?
There’s more at stake than money when two hustlers cue up.
Smile, you're a candid camera.
Fans: lovely to look at, delightful to feel.
The most popular club at the Colonial Golf Tournament is the one with barstools.
It takes all kinds of ethnic music to make the world go round.
A Texas farmhouse relives those thrilling days of yesteryear.
Anybody who thinks Jones, Jones & Baldwin is just a trio of small-time, small-town attorneys is headed for big-time trouble.
Positively the latest in sound thinking.
The only way Red Garland could make us mad would be to quit playing piano.
Ready when you are, CB.