April 1974

Mar 31, 1974 — By William Martin

Forget your Dallas cowboys and your Houston Astros. Texas’ real champions count birds once a year at freeport. They’re not bird watchers, they’re birders. And therein lies a tail.

Mar 31, 1974 — By Al Reinert

The GOP and Democratic chairmen are both from Texas. Right there the similarity ends, or begins, no, ends.

Mar 31, 1974 — By Bill Porterfield

I see Ross Perot as a throwback, a distinct cousin to two types of 19th century mythical American heroes. In his deeds, Perot is as gargantuan—as wonderful and awful and ridiculous—as Davy Crockett. In his idealisms, Perot would fashion himself, and the rest of us, after one of the proper…

Mar 31, 1974 — By Donald Morrison

Did the clean-cut knight get trapped by the Wall Street dragon? And did he, after all, have himself to blame?

Jan 20, 2013 — By Griffin Smith Jr.

All roads have to go somewhere; but it could be that roads in Texas are going the wrong way.

Mar 31, 1974 — By Felicia Coates and Harriet Howle

We visit restaurants in Houston where lunches are the specialty.

Mar 31, 1974 — By Prudence Mackintosh

Daddies can’t have babies, but they can sure help their wives. This is a guide to where and how.

Mar 31, 1974 — By William Broyles

We Texans have always seemed to drive more, and farther, and for perhaps stranger reasons, than just about anyone else. Young people in the bleak and monotonous landscapes of West and North Texas grew up accustomed to endless, aimless rides around the countryside and to regular trips into the cities…

Mar 31, 1974 — By Gregory Curtis

Doug Sahm's music is his own, but what luck that he plays it for everybody.

Mar 31, 1974 — By Roger Williams

What you eat affects the way you think; ad what you think affects the way you eat.

Mar 31, 1974 — By The Customer's Man

Senator Bentsen is proposing legislation to end the two-tiered market. It might work; then again the market might take care of itself.

Mar 31, 1974 — By Katharine Lowry

Cops, sci-fi, and westerns get served up as leftovers, and only one still tastes good. Meanwhile, Robert Altman has another dazzling film.

Jan 20, 2013 — By Chase Untermeyer

Last election’s star campaigner may be taking thewrong road back.

Jul 26, 2016 — By Paul Burka

Baseball, an old and idiosyncratic game, loses and old and idiosyncratic field.

Mar 31, 1974 — By Texas Monthly

PEYTON PLACE COMES TO DALLAS Bill Peyton’s antiques, ranging from the most elaborate Louis XIV or Napoleonic pieces to funky wine presses, Coca-Cola mirrors, church pulpits, and pump organs, come from all over Europe in 40-foot containers, or from estates in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. For 15 years he…

Mar 31, 1974 — By Richard West

JUSTICE IN EL PASO Southern California mystery writer Ross McDonald in his best book, The Goodby Look, has his world-weary private eye hero Lew Archer lament, “I have a secret passion for mercy . . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.” Richard Wheatley’s justice…