Hunting & Fishing
April 1, 1981
Shrimpers
Someone endured weeks of hard work, loneliness, and seasickness to land that lovely pink delicacy on your plate.
Business
Reporting and commentary on Texas businesses and the trends and innovation happening in our state
Business
February 1, 1981
Old Oil: The Ranger Revival
Ranger was the most romantic field in the early oil boom. Now a major company is risking its future to prove that romance still lives.
Business
July 31, 1980
Why I wish I Didn’t Have $137 Million
Those luck Arabs, with all that oil! The only problem, as a Saudi finance minister points out, is that oil is all they have.
Energy
July 1, 1980
Profits? What Profits?
Reading Big Oil’s annual reports for the truth about profits is a little like drilling for oil in the Baltimore Canyon: you know it’s there, but how deep will you have to go to find it?
Business
June 1, 1980
Who Owns Texas?
The biggest landholders in the state, acre by acre.
Business
May 1, 1980
Three Gentlemen, One Ghost, and a Skyscraper
The intrigue behind the building of Houston’s Texas Commerce Tower was almost as monumental as the 75-story structure itself.
Business
March 1, 1980
Hustlers and Fortune Hunters Beware!
When the cable TV salesman comes calling, you should fully expect your city council to sell you down the river. Not that they mean to do it. It’s simply that history shows most city councils don’t know the first thing about cable. People who can barely figure out the briefs
Business
March 1, 1980
Invasion of the Cable Snatchers
In Texas the best way to get rich in cable television is to know just a little about TV and everything about politics.
Health
January 1, 1980
Life Got You Down? Getting Nowhere? Wishing for Wealth? For Success? For Happiness?
My friend, you have come to the right place.
Business
December 1, 1979
Picking Up the Pieces
You load sixteen tons, and what do you get? Ask your garbageman.
Business
October 1, 1979
The Man Who Built River Oaks
Architect John Staub, the forgotten genius of River Oaks, transformed a few nondescript Houston streets into Millionaires’ Row.
Business
October 1, 1979
Talking Money/The Heavy Hitters
What’s what and who’s who in Texas real estate.
Business
September 30, 1979
Sherwood Blount’s First Million
He believed in the American dream and it paid off.
Business
September 1, 1979
Easy Money
Faster than a speeding Master Charge, funkier than a garage sale, able to leap bad credit ratings at a single bound. Look, up at the sign! It’s a bank! It’s a store! It’s—Super Pawn!
Business
July 31, 1979
Texas Monthly Reporter
Valley politicos block minority TV; Dairy Queens reign in small-town Texas; woman diver yearns for Acapulco cliffs; Houston takes its lumps.
Business
July 1, 1979
Speed Freak
Fast food is tasteless and vulgar. There are other good things about it, too.
Business
April 1, 1979
The Hot Pink Empire of Mary Kay Ash
She learned the truth about selling cosmetics. Her customers didn’t want to buy products, they wanted to buy dreams.
Business
April 1, 1979
Sold American
China wants to drill for oil—and guess who knows how.
Energy
March 1, 1979
Psst . . . Have I Got a Deal for You!
Oil is a slippery business.
Business
March 1, 1979
Heavenly Hosts
Forget the church, forget the steeple, turn on the tube to see all the people.
Energy
December 1, 1978
So You Want to Be Chairman of Exxon?
How the world’s largest corporation decides who will make it to the top—and who won’t.
Business
November 1, 1978
Bad Jobs
If working hard builds character, these people must be saints.
Business
October 1, 1978
The Last of the Great Ladies
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.
Business
August 1, 1978
Trouble in Paradise
Resort hotels and luxury condominiums line the shore of South Padre, yet foot by foot, day by day, the island is washing away.
Business
April 30, 1978
Unfriendly Skies
Braniff is hopping the Atlantic to London; Pan Am is just hopping mad.
Business
April 1, 1978
Daddy’s Money
The feuding over H. L. Hunt’s vast fortune is a family affair, and what a family!
Business
December 1, 1977
They’re Minding the Store
If you’re looking for Houston’s elite, forget the Petroleum Club; go to the produce center at Jamail’s.
Business
December 1, 1977
King of the Catalogs
Who is Roger Horchow and why is he doing these terrible things to our Christmas budgets?
Texana
November 20, 1977
The Last Frontier
The pioneers who came to tame the West met their match in the land of ‘Giant.’
Business
November 1, 1977
Word of the Profits
Move over Harold Robbons: religious books sell big.
Business
May 31, 1977
Diamonds Aren’t Forever
Spring cleaning in the house that Zale built.
Business
May 31, 1977
Clothes Made the Man
Why Willie Farah is taking up slack—not slacks—these days.
Business
April 30, 1977
Catchy Coup
How to squeeze a multimillion-dollar business out of a ten-second radio jingle.
Business
April 30, 1977
The Wizard of Oz (Ret.)
Question: What goes on behind the closed doors of the stateÌs most elegant restaurant these days? Answer: Nothing.
Business
April 1, 1977
All Roads Lead From Roma
What’s good for marijuana is good for Starr County.
Business
April 1, 1977
Allah In the Family
In the middle of the booming Houston economy are some new movers and shakers.
Records
February 1, 1977
The Last Record Store
There’s a heaven for record collectors and it’s in the middle of West Texas.
Performance
December 1, 1976
Biz Kids
Balcones Fault is a show band with a head on its shoulders.
Business
November 1, 1976
Upwardly Mogul
The tale of the man who made Dallas a film industry capital is no shaggy-dog story.
Business
September 30, 1976
The Boomsday Book
Why Houston should read it and weep.
Business
August 31, 1976
Only the Loanly
There are five private banks left in Texas. Why?
Business
July 31, 1976
A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned
Did you know there’s more difference between Fudgsicles and Popsicles than the taste? The taxman does.
Business
July 31, 1976
Let’s Make a Deal
When Dad Joiner signed away all his oil leases to H.L. Hunt, all the cards weren’t on the table. Some were still underground.
Business
April 30, 1976
Dealing
Dope sellers obey the law—of supply and demand.
Politics & Policy
April 1, 1976
The Most Powerful Texans
You can’t tell the players without a scorecard.
Libations
March 1, 1976
Muscling In On Texas Beer
How Coors is setting out to conquer Texas.
Business
December 1, 1975
The Great Airline War
Will Texas International Airlines's “whiz kids” fizzle?! Will sexy Southwest conquer all?! Will Braniff lose its routes?!
Energy
April 30, 1975
Power Politics
How Coastal State Gas pulled the plug on the Texas consumer.
Business
March 31, 1975
Laredo: Fuel’s Paradise
Everybody in Laredo is being excessively kind to Tony Sanchez, Sr., these days, quite a change from several years ago when Sanchez took in ten to twelve thousand a year selling office supply furniture and trading oil and gas leases on the side to help make ends meet. Kindest of
Business
March 31, 1975
The Most Dangerous Airports in Texas
Pray now, fly later.