Sports
September 1, 1983
Passing the Bucks
Football recruiting makes the NCAA see red, but SMU sees orange.
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Being Texan
June 1, 1983
It’s Just Another Day
Kids, house, husband—these are the natural enemies of a well-ordered day.
Food & Drink
February 1, 1983
Tea for Texas
Can Texans be won over to the antique tradition of tea and little sandwiches in the afternoon? Dallas’ and Houston’s new gilded hotels are counting on it.
Politics & Policy
October 1, 1982
Jim Collins and the Armies Of The Faithful
Jim Collins is running for the Senate on the claim that it’s better to be right (wing) than to pass bills. If he wins, it will change Texas politics.
Style & Design
September 1, 1982
The Inside Skinny on Dallas Designers
Who’s who, and who’s doing what to whom: a brief guide.
Style & Design
September 1, 1982
The Empress’s New Clothes
What you won’t see from Dallas designers is lots of froufrou. What you will see is a look tailored for the working woman.
Business
July 1, 1982
The Man Who Killed Braniff
Harding Lawrence was obsessed with making Braniff great. Maybe too obsessed.
News & Politics
July 1, 1982
The Texas Edison
A Dallas engineer you’ve probably never heard of has done more to change our daily lives than almost anyone else alive. How? He invented the silicon chip.
News & Politics
April 1, 1982
Life With the Sutherlands, Frontier Family
Outside the back door stretches the lonely prairie; there is deep silence broken sometimes by gunshots and things that go bump in the night. But here on the edge of Dallas’s suburbs, you can always retreat to the whirlpool in the bathroom.
Business
December 1, 1981
Let’s Get Serious About Toys
They used to be virtuous and wooden and they were good. Now they’re commercial and plastic and they’re great.
Being Texan
November 1, 1981
The Fundamentalist
He’s the man with the Word, and the Word is for you.
Music
November 1, 1981
The Attack of the Electronic Beast and Other Pleasures
Four performers in Dallas are making a new kind of music that combines precision, grace, and crazy humor.
Business
October 1, 1981
Losing Big
Everybody knows the story about the young Texan who goes into business, works hard, and makes millions. But what happens when his luck runs out?
Sports
October 1, 1981
Throw It to Me!
Drew Pearson, Tony Hill, and Butch Johnson are wide receivers for the Dallas Cowboys—in other words, they’re artists, egomaniacs, fierce competitors, and the heart of the team.
Politics & Policy
September 1, 1981
One Woman’s Tiny Problem Confronts Dallas City Hall
Vesta Cawley turned to the city bureaucracy for help with a problem that didn’t matter to any of the other 900,000 residents of Dallas. But it should have mattered more to city hall.
Travel & Outdoors
April 1, 1981
Tenting Tonight
How you can—and why you should—go camping in the middle of the week.
Music
March 1, 1981
Make Friends With the Quin Tikis
Onstage, all happy lounge acts are alike; offstage, all unhappy lounge acts are unhappy in their own ways.
Style & Design
January 1, 1981
Rags to Riches
When buyers and sellers converge on Dallas’s Apparel Mart for a week-long orgy of fashionable commerce, high style and discriminating taste confront the cold reality of the bottom line.
Style & Design
December 1, 1980
No Man’s Land
Welcome to Highland Park, a small town right in the middle of Dallas where the living is easy and time stands still.
Sports
September 1, 1980
The Modified Triple-Reverse, Double-Handoff Option
Football has degenerated into a routine encounter between two sets of programmed, steroid-stuffed robots. These trick plays could change all that.
Politics & Policy
August 1, 1980
Fire!
What you don’t know about your fire department could burn you up.
Art
April 1, 1980
Would You Pay $2.5 Million for That Painting?
‘The Icebergs’ is the most expensive American painting in history, but it is also the center of an art-world mystery with a trail leading from an English boys’ school to a Dallas millionaire.
Music
February 1, 1980
Rock ’N’ Roll’s Wizard of Oz
How Gordon McLendon stormed Texas with Top 40 . . . da doo ron ron.
Sports
December 25, 1979
The Real Mean Green
Talk to coaches and team owners about AstroTurf and you’ll hear all its advantages. Talk to the players and you’ll hear a different story.
Being Texan
December 1, 1979
My Life and Hard Times in the Junior League
“In the League, you’ll run into a little tradition, some noblesse oblige, and a lot of talk about diets, dyslexia, designer dresses, and divorce.”
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.
News & Politics
February 1, 1979
Hotel Detective
He knows the secrets behind closed doors.
Energy
December 1, 1978
The Friends of Cloyce Box
With friends like these, Box’s company didn’t need enemies.
Style & Design
May 1, 1978
Expensive People
At the top, a good family helps, clothes help, manners help, the right friends help, but nothing helps like money.
Business
April 1, 1978
Daddy’s Money
The feuding over H. L. Hunt’s vast fortune is a family affair, and what a family!
Texas History
February 1, 1978
Dallas Is Better Than Houston
Big D is not called Big D for nothing.
Style & Design
December 1, 1977
Living in Glass Houses
The world is full of monuments to art—but how many can you live in?
Business
December 1, 1977
King of the Catalogs
Who is Roger Horchow and why is he doing these terrible things to our Christmas budgets?
Sports
November 1, 1977
View From the Top
Inside the cushy private boxes at Texas’ top sports stadiums, far from the madding crowd.
Sports
September 30, 1977
The Joy of Cheerleading
One week with a thousand cheerleaders.
Sports
September 30, 1977
The Aging of the All-American Boy
Roger Staubach is one Cowboy who always wears a white hat.
Sports
September 30, 1977
The Rites of Autumn
You don’t have to be crazy to attend Texas-OU Weekend, but it helps.
Business
May 31, 1977
Diamonds Aren’t Forever
Spring cleaning in the house that Zale built.
Music
March 1, 1977
Seeing Red
The only way Red Garland could make us mad would be to quit playing piano.
News & Politics
March 1, 1977
The New Adultery
Those who haunt the singles bars aren’t always what they seem—namely, single.
Arts & Entertainment
December 1, 1976
Candy
The life and times of Candy Barr—the woman who made headlines by always being in the wrong place at the right time.
Health
November 1, 1976
Vanity Fair
The Greenhouse is where the rich and the chic go to play I spa.
True Crime
August 31, 1976
Busting Out of Mexico
Two self-styled Texas soldiers of fortune engineered one of the more bizarre jailbreaks in history. Here’s how it happened.
True Crime
June 30, 1976
The Girl, the Con Man, and the Massage Parlor King
The girl wanted love, the men wanted money, and when they all got together it was murder.
Style & Design
April 1, 1976
The Highland Park Woman
Splendor in the suburbs.
Politics & Policy
March 1, 1976
The Man Who Saw Too Much
Hugh Aynesworth can’t escape what he witnessed in 1963.
Sports
December 1, 1975
The Best Sportswriter in Texas
Hint: his initials are B.S.
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?!
Texas History
November 1, 1975
Who Was Jack Ruby?
If you thought you knew, you were probably wrong.
Transportation
July 31, 1974
Waiting for the Train
While you’re waiting at the depot, Amtrak bickers with Washington, railway moguls, and itself.