News & Politics
November 1, 1974
Barons of the Court
Need a criminal lawyer? Here are the biggest names in the state.
Features
News & Politics
November 1, 1974
Warren Burnett for the Defense
He may have pleased the court, but what about himself?
Feature
November 1, 1974
So You Want to Buy a House?
What a homebuyer gets for his money, if he can get the money.
Energy
November 1, 1974
The Wildcatter’s Wildcatter
Glenn McCarthy still roars like a lion.
True Crime
September 30, 1974
The Strange Power of Fred Carrasco
He left a police department, a mayor, and fifty bodies in his wake.
Music
September 30, 1974
Growing Old at Willie Nelson’s Picnic
What is it like to miss the sexual revolution (and some others) by a mere handful of years?
Feature
September 30, 1974
The Texas Monthly Guide to Private Schools, Part II
Should your child go to a private school; if so, which one?
Libations
September 30, 1974
The Man Who Invented the Margarita
The inventor’s wife is named Margarita, but the drink was not named for a woman.
Sports
August 31, 1974
Coming of Age in the Locker Room
What football does to its people.
Feature
August 31, 1974
The Texas Monthly Guide to Private Schools, Part I
Two questions are crucial: should your child go to private school; and if so, which one.
Travel & Outdoors
July 31, 1974
Why I Like to Ride the Train
Enthusiastic railway passengers maintain that fast is not necessarily the same as best.
Transportation
July 31, 1974
Waiting for the Train
While you’re waiting at the depot, Amtrak bickers with Washington, railway moguls, and itself.
Business
July 31, 1974
Pappy’s Girls
Separating the dancer from the dance in the world of strip tease.
Business
July 31, 1974
King of the Hobbyists
What kind of man would establish a museum which exhibits a bottle of dust from the wings of model airplanes and 250,000 three cent stamps?
Being Texan
July 31, 1974
So You Want to Be a Redneck
Owning a pickup is not, in itself, enough.
Travel & Outdoors
June 30, 1974
Forgotten Places
Four seldom visited areas of Texas prove to be proudly beautiful and almost inaccessible.
Sports
June 30, 1974
James Helwig is the Heavyweight Champion of Texas
Boxing is the real school of hard knocks. James Helwig, the Texas Heavyweight Champion, hopes he’ll be able to graduate in time.
Health
June 30, 1974
Six West
Staying alive day by day . . . by day.
Politics & Policy
June 30, 1974
Why Jack Valenti Still Sleeps Soundly
Beneath the phony outer schmaltz of Jack Valenti one finds the real schmaltz of a true believer.
News & Politics
May 31, 1974
A Mighty Fortress is Our Home
It’s easy to lock yourself out of your own home, but keeping someone else out is rather more difficult.
Style & Design
May 31, 1974
Constructive Criticism
Once again a critical eye is cast on those irregularities along the skyline called buildings.
Arts & Entertainment
May 31, 1974
Rating the Major Dailies
Choosing the best features of Texas newspapers is a thankless job, hard on the spirit, and difficult for all the wrong reasons.
Health
April 30, 1974
Spinal Strategists
Vibrating vertebrae is not a disease; it is either a cure or not a cure. Our reporter turned her back to the whole subject.
Food & Drink
April 30, 1974
The Best Little Old Chicken Fried Steak in Texas
There it is, right there on the plate. Just where is that?
News & Politics
April 30, 1974
Witch-Hunt
Witches are where you find them. But where is that?
Critters
March 31, 1974
Semi-Tuft
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.
Politics & Policy
March 31, 1974
Ross Perot: A Hero for Our Time
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
Business
March 31, 1974
Ambush on Wall Street
Did the clean-cut knight get trapped by the Wall Street dragon? And did he, after all, have himself to blame?
Film & TV
February 28, 1974
Leavin’ McMurtry
Leaving Cheyenne, which may be Larry McMurtry’s best novel, is made into a miserable movie. This is how it happened.
Politics & Policy
February 28, 1974
Abortion in Texas
One year after the Supreme Court decision we survey how hospitals and private citizens are responding to legalized abortion.
Sports
February 28, 1974
Rodeo Madness
A rodeo is an anachronism, like javelin throwing: but its bumps, bruises, and brawls are real.
Texas History
January 31, 1974
Going Home to Arlington
How do you find a folksy town of 7,500 people 20 years later in a sprawling city of 110,000?
Sports
January 31, 1974
Go You Wildcats, Go!
Even though Wheatley High's last teamful of stars got snapped up by eager colleges, winning is such a habit there that they just might keep on doing it.
Business
January 31, 1974
Sold American!
Selling a herd of prime cattle can be tricky business. And it takes professionals to do it right.
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.
News & Politics
January 1, 1974
I Am A Cop
A San Antonio patrolman tells what it is like on the job.
Style & Design
January 1, 1974
Temple of Cloth
The Apparel Mart in Dallas clothes Middle America. Their merchandise may not win many fashion awards, but it sells, and sells, and sells.
News & Politics
January 1, 1974
God Goes to the Astrodome
A fat 15-year-old inaugurated 1000 years of peace in Houston this fall. Don't look now, but the people you went to college with may be following him.
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1974
We the People…
When we write a constitution for the first time in almost 100 years, everyone wants a piece of the pie. In spite of it all, the new draft turned out to be an improvement. Now it's the legislature's turn.
Sports
December 1, 1973
The Wizards of Odds
In Texas the bookies go where the action is and in Texas the action is with football.
Business
December 1, 1973
Airport!
Dallas and Fort Worth boosters may have pushed their cities into the 21st century when they opened the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport this September.
Travel & Outdoors
December 1, 1973
Border Towns: What to Do and Where to Do It
Our travel guide, in search of the perfect taco, wanders along the 1248 mile border between Texas and Mexico. He wines, dines, and occasionally sightsees.
Texas History
December 1, 1973
Why Dallas?
When John Neely Bryan built his cabin he didn't know what would happen to Big D as it grew, or why it would happen. A. C. Greene searches through old photographs and records to give us the answer.
True Crime
November 1, 1973
Cops as Junkies
Those who enforce our narcotics laws often use the stuff themselves.
Politics & Policy
November 1, 1973
Mother of the Decade
Lee Harvey Oswald’s mother wants to tell the world how she got out from under Jackie’s shadow.
Business
November 1, 1973
Empires of Paper
A law firm of almost 200 attorneys becomes an institution with massive power and life of its own. Three such firms are in Texas, including two of the four largest in the U.S. We open them, for the first time, to the public.
Being Texan
September 30, 1973
Let the Love Light Shine
Those Jesus Freaks are your children. But what's the colony like in Dallas?
Style & Design
September 30, 1973
Suit Yourself!
From underwear to trenchcoats, everything you never knew about men's fashions answered.
Style & Design
September 30, 1973
In Search of Style
Two women on a shopping trip in Dallas and San Antonio reveal the fashion secret rarely told--how to develop your own style.
Business
August 31, 1973
Body Business At Tokyo House
Sam Corey runs a chain of massage parlors. He says they're all on the up and up.