News & Politics
January 31, 1974
The Best Worst TV in Texas
Fires, murders, robberies, assaults, highway accidents: they happen every day in the city, and what happens every day is big news on San Antonio TV.
Contributors
Gregory Curtis
Former Texas Monthly editor in chief Gregory Curtis was born in Corpus Christi and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. He received a BA in English from Rice University and a master’s in English from San Francisco State College. While in San Francisco, he ran a small printing and publishing company. He came to Texas Monthly in 1972 as part of the original staff. In 1981 he became editor in chief, a position he held until 2000. In addition to Texas Monthly, he has written for the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Fortune, and Time. Curtis is the author of three books—Disarmed: The Story of the Venus de Milo, The Cave Painters: Probing the Mysteries of the World’s First Artists, and Paris Without Her: A Memoir. He lives in Austin. Once an adequate equestrian, he is now an aspiring magician.
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Briar Patch
WELL, I’LL BE A DIRTY BIRDThe two Kids Kounty stores in Houston (think of the confusion had they been named Cids County) are the result of an original merchandising idea of the Lachman Rose Company. The stores are large windowless boxes each containing about 34,000 square feet of floor space
By Gregory Curtis and Wendy Meyer
The Wizards of Odds
In Texas the bookies go where the action is and in Texas the action is with football.
Briar Patch
MAYBE BABYABOUT THREE YEARS AGO, DR. Joseph Goldzieher, a researcher at San Antonio’s Southwest Foundation for Research and Education, set out to determine if numerous side effects reported by women using oral contraceptives might be psychological in origin.He recruited 76 women to use as a control group, some of whom
By Gregory Curtis, Ron White and Martha Hume
Suit Yourself!
From underwear to trenchcoats, everything you never knew about men's fashions answered.
Body Business At Tokyo House
Sam Corey runs a chain of massage parlors. He says they're all on the up and up.
Behind the Lines
MANY OF THE ARTICLES IN this issue are, in one way or another, about crime. It seems we have opened Pandora’s box. Returning from lunch one day we found that the offices next to ours had been burglarized. The next afternoon we got a call from Al Reinert, who
Five Odd Books for Summer Reading
Turn off the T.V. and read a spell. These books are fun.
Briar Patch
THE SIN OF AUSTININ AUSTIN RECENTLY, DURING A public hearing on skinnydipping in Lake Travis, local resident Louis Steinbach testified to attentive city councilmen: “God has the power to destroy this city for its sin…and officials had better realize it.” We do not want to appear soft on sin, but
By Gregory Curtis, Wendy Meyer and Allan Turner
Film Fatale
Bright lights and movie madness in Big D.
The Movie Pushers
Why movies play where they do, when they do, and if they do.
Briar Patch
IF FORTUNE MAKES STRANGE BEDFELLOWS, the fortunes of death make the strangest of all. In the state cemetery in Austin, J. Frank Dobie, Ma and Pa Ferguson, and Big Foot Wallace lie within a 30-yard radius of one another. Their graves are near the top of a small hill which
By Gregory Curtis and Jamie Frucht
Don’t Touch That Dial!
Is anybody in Dallas watching?
Touts
THE EARTH MOVEDIf an elderly gentleman approaches you in a bar and offers to bet the price of an evening’s drink that there is a connection between the surface temperature of Venus and Noah’s ark, you might be inclined to make the wager. But do not bet, my child, for
Loose Leaf
About the AuthorDebbie Deepsheet Takes a Dive, by Mary Margaret WisheyMISS WISHLEY LIVES IN NICE ‘n Rustic, Connecticut, with a pet ‘coon and her two nuns. She is presently at work on the third volume of the Debbie Deepsheet trilogy, titled Debbie Deepsheet, Astronaut. Miss Wishey hopes that the story