Business
August 1, 1983
Hi! I’m Jimmy Dean and I’d Like You to Try My Pure Pork Sausage
The meat products business is no bed of top hogs.
Features
The Culture
July 31, 1983
Texas Primer: Conjunto
Tex plus Mex plus electric guitar plus accordion equals... art.
True Crime
July 31, 1983
The Death Shift
The three-to-eleven evening shift, Bexar County Hospital, San Antonio: nurse Genene Jones was on duty in the pediatric intensive care unit, and for months babies kept having mysterious—sometimes fatal—emergencies. Why?
Food & Drink
July 1, 1983
Chilly Scenes of Dinner
The old tin tray, it ain’t what it used to be. Today’s TV dinners have become “frozen cuisine.”
Being Texan
June 30, 1983
Texas Primer: The Ranch Gate
These days it seems every five-acre ranchette flaunts a gate worthy of the XIT.
Best and Worst Legislators
June 30, 1983
1983: The Ten Best and The Ten Worst Legislators
We just rate them. You voted for them.
Energy
June 30, 1983
The Journeyman
Ed Jones rode the oil boom to a white-collar job. It was a short trip.
Energy
June 30, 1983
And Yet the Dream Endures
Don’t give up! There’s still money to be made finding oil. Up in Graham the Creswells are striking it rich with the help of Jesus and, er, creekology.
Energy
June 30, 1983
Ask Jett Rink
The quintessential wildcatter fills you in on free enterprise and Texas after oil.
Energy
June 30, 1983
The Gambler
Jack Young was the eighties’ oil boom in the flesh. Unfortunately, he also personifies the aftermath of the bust.
Being Texan
June 1, 1983
For Names’ Sake
Life is tough all over, but especially for Juniors.
Being Texan
June 1, 1983
It’s Just Another Day
Kids, house, husband—these are the natural enemies of a well-ordered day.
Travel & Outdoors
June 1, 1983
Phantom Cat of the Valley
Meet the ocelot, not as pet, not as fur coat, but in its best role—an elusive remnant of Texas’ wild past.
Style & Design
May 31, 1983
Texas Primer: The Name Belt
Wearing one won’t make you a real live cowboy, but it sure will brand you as a modern Texan.
Politics & Policy
May 31, 1983
The Long Boyhood of George H.W. Bush
Like the hero of a boys’ novel, George Bush moved from the East to the wild and woolly West. He wanted to prove himself, by golly, to Yale, Procter & Gamble, and the old man.
Art
May 1, 1983
Larger Than Life
Tom Lea, the grand old man of Texas painting, grew up among giants. No wonder he always used a big canvas.
Travel & Outdoors
May 1, 1983
The Cow’s in the Corn
Or, my life as a Texas gardener.
Politics & Policy
May 1, 1983
Mark White’s Coming-Out Party
The new governor’s first hundred days were great theater, but now come taxes.
Being Texan
April 30, 1983
Texas Primer: The Water Tower
Sure it means water. It also means pride.
Libations
April 30, 1983
The Bar Bar
It’s a noble institution, especially if you can master all its subtle skills: not being there, the second call, holding forth, and another thing...
Sports
April 1, 1983
Hell on Wheels
In which John Howard, our toughest athlete, goes after a world bicycle record and hopes america will care.
Being Texan
April 1, 1983
Hail to Thee, George E. Fischer
Most of the time you’re a nice, ordinary businessman. But for one brief, shining moment you were King Antonio, monarch of San Antonio’s Fiesta and semi-beloved ruler of the one Texas city that still loves a good king.
Being Texan
April 1, 1983
Texas Primer: The Farm-to-Market Road
The last best way to see the real Texas.
True Crime
March 1, 1983
Blood of the Lamb
A high school teacher shot up the First Baptist Church in the East Texas steel town of Daingerfield, and the agony lasted longer than anyone could have imagined.
Art
March 1, 1983
The Cutting Edge
Texas' glass artists are leading a revolution in an ancient craft.
Art
March 1, 1983
The Gittings People
Shoot enough portraits of Texans, and you'll have made a portrait of Texas.
Politics & Policy
March 1, 1983
Friends In Deed
Meet some of Texas' secular latter-day saints: volunteers.
Energy
March 1, 1983
Texas Primer: The Right-angle Pump
West Texas was a desert when this little irrigation device came along. Now it’s a desert that produces more cotton than anywhere else in the country.
Texas History
February 1, 1983
Texas Primer: Lyndon’s Lincoln
Can you picture Lbj in a Datsun?
Being Texan
February 1, 1983
Main Street
It’s Houston's driveway, a twenty-mile kaleidoscope of bankers, punkers, strippers, surgeons, students, grackles, and cars.
Politics & Policy
February 1, 1983
The Year Everything Changed
If you think Texas is pretty much the same as it was ten years ago, you’re wrong. Nineteen seventy-three remade the state overnight.
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.
Feature
February 1, 1983
Other Main Streets
They’re where you went to get your hair cut or to see a picture show or to watch the squirrels on the courthouse lawn.
Food & Drink
February 1, 1983
I Am the Greatest Cook in the World
And I’m telling you, if you can’t batter it, fry it, spike it with chiles, or bathe it in buttermilk, it’s not worth your time.
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1983
The Making of a Congressman
Twelve ran, Mike Andrews won. A saga of ambition, money, power, courage, and the nature of urban politics in Texas.
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1983
God’s Happy Hour
Every year communities scattered across Texas hold wet-dry elections. Each one pits the forces of fundamentalism against the forces of realism. This is the story of one such election.
The Culture
January 1, 1983
Texas Primer: The Dallas Model
The sweetheart of the Apparel Mart: where she came from and where she’s going.
Style & Design
December 1, 1982
Piece by Piece
Out of Texas’ ragbag history came the patchwork quilt, the product of cold winters, isolated homesteads, empty pocketbooks, and fertile minds.
Texas History
December 1, 1982
Texas Primer: The Comic Texan
The life and times of the cowboy-millionaire hero of a thousand postcards.
Style & Design
December 1, 1982
The Light Before Christmas
String the lights, hang the tinsel and the expense. It’s Christmas and the decorated homes of Texans are second to none.
Sports
December 1, 1982
Coach Royal Regrets
Does Texas’ greatest college coach miss football? Nope.
Style & Design
November 1, 1982
Sensations
Was the partridge in a pear tree you gave last Christmas not fully appreciated? Our sensational gift ideas will save you this year.
Texas History
November 1, 1982
Texas Primer: The Blue Norther
Sunny in the morning, sunny in the evening, freezing by suppertime.
Being Texan
November 1, 1982
Easy Street
Houston’s black elite have come a very long way to live in MacGregor Way, the swankiest black neighborhood in Texas, but they still don’t feel safe.
News & Politics
November 1, 1982
Mr. Hannah’s Rocket
His first spacecraft blew up on the pad and his primary investor died, but the first free enterprise rocket finally flew from Matagorda.
News & Politics
November 1, 1982
The Dinosaur Darwin Missed
Side by side near a Texas river are dinosaur tracks and what appear to be the marks of a human foot—proof, in the creationist mind, that evolution is bunk.
News & Politics
November 1, 1982
The Guardians Who Slumbereth Not
Textbook watchdogs Mel and Norma Gabler are good, sincere, dedicated people, who just may be destroying your child’s education.
Travel & Outdoors
October 1, 1982
On the Wing
Roy Kendall, self-taught lepidopterist, would want you to add this to the list of reasons for living in Texas: nowhere else in the U.S. are there so many beautiful and unusual butterflies.
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.
The Culture
September 30, 1982
Texas Primer: The Pecan
Plant it, sit in its shade, but most of all, feast on its fruit.