Oil patch old-timers said to stay away from the Austin chalk. But a few feisty newcomers refused to listen and cashed in for millions.
By Harry Hurt III
I grew up playing alongside some of the best Texas golfers of my generation. Then I started to lose my grip.
By Harry Hurt III
It doesn’t matter that his most famous pupil was shark- bitten at the Masters. Butch Harmon is still Texas’ hottest golf pro since Harvey Penick.
By Harry Hurt III
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December 1, 1984
Kung’s underground hideaway; Dallas’ Cadillac wars; the Panhandle’s art terrorists; Houston’s poet-laureate; Austin’s airport quandary.
By Harry Hurt III
So you think that OPEC controls the price of oil and that the glut is hurting everybody in the oil business? Wrong. Traders on the international spot market are pulling the strings and getting rich in the process.
By Harry Hurt III
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February 1, 1984
Great expectations for oilmen; sartorial bargains for Brownsville; a medical controversy for Alpine; vexing questions for hunters; the ultimate who’s who for chickens.
By Harry Hurt III
Are eye surgeons miraculously changing the lives of folks with glasses as thick as Coke-bottle bottoms, or are they just making themselves rich ?
By Harry Hurt III
Life is tough all over, but especially for Juniors.
By Harry Hurt III
Like the hero of a boys’ novel, George Bush moved from the East to the wild and woolly West. He wanted to prove himself, by golly, to Yale, Procter & Gamble, and the old man.
By Harry Hurt III
In which John Howard, our toughest athlete, goes after a world bicycle record and hopes america will care.
By Harry Hurt III
One man’s ludicrous attempts to trace the origin of a joke led him to a simple truth: life is funny.
By Harry Hurt III
Dale Steffes can predict the future of the oil business. So why do the majors turn a deaf ear? Because, says Steffes, the news is all bad.
By Harry Hurt III
And other great country stores of Texas.
By Harry Hurt III
Texas’ hottest oil patch is cooling down.
By Harry Hurt III
Coastal Corporation’s mastermind, Oscar Wyatt, keeps everyone guessing these days—from the IRS to society columnists to stock analysts.
By Harry Hurt III
Take the “Art of Negotiating” seminar, and you too can learn to wheel and deal with a smile.
By Harry Hurt III
In the southeast corner of Texas, more people get cancer than anywhere else in the state. Why?
By Harry Hurt III
The glory days of the oil industry aren’t over; they’ve only just begun.
By Harry Hurt III
Two novels with novel views of frontier days. And, Howard Hughes revisited by two reporters who leave no stone of his rocky history unturned.
By Stephen Harrigan and Harry Hurt III
Oveta Culp Hobby has gone from a country town to a position of power and wealth. What she hasn’t done will also be her legacy.
By Harry Hurt III
Give us your tired and freezing Yankees, your studious Arabs, your ambitious young hustlers just blown into town, and we will rent them one bedroom and a bath for $215.
By Harry Hurt III
The feuding over H. L. Hunt’s vast fortune is a family affair, and what a family!
By Harry Hurt III
It is boorish, cluttered, aggravating, rich, beautiful, explosive, titillating, cosmopolitan, endearing, and has a full head of steam.
By Harry Hurt III
Leon Jaworski is cleaning up again.
By Harry Hurt III
The word going across the border is: Uncle Sam doesn’t want you.
By Harry Hurt III
Spring cleaning in the house that Zale built.
By Harry Hurt III
In pursuit of the elusive billionaire’s final mystery: who’ll get his money?
By Harry Hurt III
The new campaign financing law takes all the fun out of fund raising.
By Harry Hurt III
Why Houston should read it and weep.
By Harry Hurt III
The cockroach. What else?
By Harry Hurt III
You can’t tell the players without a scorecard.
By Harry Hurt III
The battles in John Connally’s trial were fought before the jury, but the war may have been won offstage.
By Harry Hurt III