July 1978

Jun 30, 1978 — By Michael Haggerty

Modern nuns have left the convent and entered the world. If they don’t like what they find, can they go home again?

Jun 30, 1978 — By Harry Hurt III

Give us your tired and freezing Yankees, tour studious Arabs, tour ambitious young hustlers just blown into town, and we will rent them one bedroom and a bath for $215.

Jun 30, 1978 — By Ann Fears Crawford

If you get an outfit you can be a cowboy too.

Jun 30, 1978 — By Gary Cartwright

It was Memorial Day weekend and the pickings were slim. Most of the ships that normally would have been in port lay anchored in Galveston Bay so they wouldn’t have to pay time and a half to longshoremen.  The old longshoreman they called Goat made his rounds, cadging drinks and…

Jun 30, 1978 — By John Bloom

Psychiatrists send men to death row; Texas’ loop coasters give up-side-down joyride; Diablos play baseball with Kleenex and kazoos.

Jun 30, 1978 — By Patricia Sharpe

Frock and roll.

Jun 30, 1978 — By Texas Monthly

The rich and the powerless.

Jun 30, 1978 — By Paul Burka

Sound waves.

Jun 30, 1978 — By Gregory Curtis

Horsefeathers and other plumage.

Jun 30, 1978 — By W. L. Taitte

Maybe There’s no cure for insanity, but two new plays offer some provocative treatments.

Jun 30, 1978 — By Linda Eckhardt

So your kids struck out in baseball, tripped up in tap, and camp won’t take them back this summer? Try teaching them to cook.

Jun 30, 1978 — By Robert Barnstone

When rusty Rose talks, people with money listen.

Jun 30, 1978 — By Suzanne Shelton

Mix together Scott Joplin, modern history, and the Prodigal Son and what do you get? A mess of pottage.

Jun 30, 1978 — By John Graves

It’s a chicken coop. I built it myself.

Jun 30, 1978 — By W. L. Taitte

Conducting the Houston Symphony, Lawrence Foster inspired respect. He didn’t know he needed love too.

Jun 30, 1978 — By William Broyles

The uselessness of college.

Jun 30, 1978 — By Michael Ennis

Riding a color merry-go-round with America’s first modern painters.

Jun 30, 1978 — By Joe Nick Patoski

Back in the forties Gatemouth Brown took Texas blues uptown,. Now he’s taking C&W to New Orleans.

Jun 30, 1978 — By Judy Benson

A mother’s job offers no vacations, no holidays, and lousy pay, but it’s a noble profession.

Jun 30, 1978 — By Linda Eckhardt

This recipe is one of several featured in the July 1978 Dining In article Tots and Pans Midsummer is the best time for homemade ice cream. Whether your freezer is electric or hand-crank, kids are willing ice cream makers. 6 eggs 1/2 cup light-colored honey 8 cups…

Jun 30, 1978 — By Linda Eckhardt

This recipe is one of several featured in the July 1978 Dining In article Tots and Pans If you have a kid who wants to bake a cake but you are skittish about a hot oven, try this 150-year-old recipe for a wood stove. 1/2 pound butter (2 sticks)…

Jun 30, 1978 — By Linda Eckhardt

The English have always been graphic to a fault. The name of this dish is destined to delight children of all ages and raise grave doubts in the eyes of adults. Think of it as Yorkshire pudding with sausages. 1 cup flour 2 eggs 1 cup milk…

Jun 30, 1978 — By Linda Eckhardt

This recipe is one of several featured in the July 1978 Dining In article Tots and Pans If you have more than one kid in the kitchen, steaming vegetables is a perfect job to be shared by a little one and a big one. Steaming prevent loss of water-soluble…

Jun 30, 1978 — By Linda Eckhardt

This recipe is one of several featured in the July 1978 Dining In article Tots and Pans Homemade versions of ‘prepared’ foods are a kid’s kitchen miracle. 1 egg 2 cups salad oil 1 teaspoon sugar 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon dry mustard juice…

Jun 30, 1978 — By Linda Eckhardt

This recipe is one of several featured in the July 1978 Dining In article Tots and Pans We all know that cabbage is a cheap and good source of vitamin C. But try telling that to a kid who turns his nose up at this vegetable in any form.

Jun 30, 1978 — By Linda Eckhardt

This recipe is one of several featured in the July 1978 Dining In article Tots and Pans 2 cups chicken broth 1 egg Heat to boiling 2 cups of chicken broth — preferably homemade (which the children can learn to do by watching you cover chicken bones with…