As the man known to the world as Dallas's J. R. Ewing fends off throat cancer, he gears up to reprise the role that turned him into an icon and looks back on one of the most extraordinary—and eccentric—lives in show business.
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.
I grew up playing alongside some of the best Texas golfers of my generation. Then I started to lose my grip.
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.
Kung’s underground hideaway; Dallas’ Cadillac wars; the Panhandle’s art terrorists; Houston’s poet-laureate; Austin’s airport quandary.
Great expectations for oilmen; sartorial bargains for Brownsville; a medical controversy for Alpine; vexing questions for hunters; the ultimate who’s who for chickens.
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.
One man’s ludicrous attempts to trace the origin of a joke led him to a simple truth: life is funny.
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.
Coastal Corporation’s mastermind, Oscar Wyatt, keeps everyone guessing these days—from the IRS to society columnists to stock analysts.
Take the “Art of Negotiating” seminar, and you too can learn to wheel and deal with a smile.
In the southeast corner of Texas, more people get cancer than anywhere else in the state. Why?
The glory days of the oil industry aren’t over; they’ve only just begun.
Two novels with novel views of frontier days. And, Howard Hughes revisited by two reporters who leave no stone of his rocky history unturned.
It is boorish, cluttered, aggravating, rich, beautiful, explosive, titillating, cosmopolitan, endearing, and has a full head of steam.
The word going across the border is: Uncle Sam doesn’t want you.
In pursuit of the elusive billionaire’s final mystery: who’ll get his money?
The new campaign financing law takes all the fun out of fund raising.
You can’t tell the players without a scorecard.
The battles in John Connally’s trial were fought before the jury, but the war may have been won offstage.
