Politics & Policy
March 1, 1988
Should This Man Be President?
For all his integrity and noble intentions, George Bush has yet to prove he’s got the agenda of a true statesman.
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Critters
March 1, 1988
Who Can Stop the Killer Bees?
Experts predict the first swarms could cross the border next year. What happens then to Texas’ multimillion-dollar honey industry is anybody’s guess.
Business
March 1, 1988
Lifestyles of the Rich and Bankrupt
Going broke is for poor people. Here’s a whole chapter of Texans who have found ways to clear the books without losing their ranches, Rolls, or Rolexes.
Business
January 1, 1988
Break the Bank!
Don Dixon ran Vernon Savings the way the Romans ran orgies, equating excess with success, until his empire collapsed.
Style & Design
January 1, 1988
Ode on a Hempstead Urn
That concrete urn you bought by the side of the road is making decorating history.
True Crime
January 1, 1988
The Sins of Walker Railey
He had a wife and a girlfriend. His ambition was unchecked. He tried to commit suicide. But when I came face to face with the minister of my boyhood church, the sin we talked about was murder.
Film & TV
December 1, 1987
The Trip to Paradise
Small Texas towns live either in our memory or in our imagination. The ones with the storybook names live in both.
News & Politics
December 1, 1987
All Choked Up
A ground war at the Dallas–Fort Worth Airport is turning innocent passengers into anxious bystanders.
Style & Design
December 1, 1987
Most Likely to Succeed
Seven outstanding young Texas design students translate their visions of fairy tales, Greek goddesses, and Catholic rituals into fashion statements.
Books
December 1, 1987
Growing Up With George and Martha
By turning two tiny dots into two huge hippos, James Marshall made an indelible mark on children’s literature, and little people laughed happily ever after.
True Crime
November 1, 1987
Every One a Victim
The parents of a confessed killer went to jail rather than testify against their son. Now the murder conviction has been reversed, and the family of the deceased must endure renewed anguish.
News & Politics
November 1, 1987
Sold!
Never mind the million (no lie!) other houses for sale in Texas. If you follow our advice, yours will be the first to sell.
Being Texan
November 1, 1987
Dear Mum
Autumn is the time when true school spirit blooms.
News & Politics
November 1, 1987
Old Times
Before the Dallas newspaper war, the Herald was full of character—or was it characters?
Business
November 1, 1987
Paper Boy
When newspaper entrepreneur William Dean Singleton bought the ailing ‘Dallas Times Herald,’ people thought he was crazy. When he bought the ‘Houston Post,’ they were sure of it.
Being Texan
November 1, 1987
Head, Heels, and Heart
For team ropers on the All-Girl circuit, the true reward is the happiness of pursuit.
Travel & Outdoors
October 1, 1987
Autumn Leaves
Turn off the AC, stop pretending you’re a reptile, welcome the whooping cranes back. It’s fall!
Sports
October 1, 1987
The World According to Coach
Never say Kant, Socrates it to ’em, and other collected wisdom from Texas’ Friday-night philosophers.
Film & TV
October 1, 1987
Coming Soon to a Theater Near You: Dwarf
The Hollywood epics have left Texas, to be replaced by miniatures like ‘Nadine.’
Business
October 1, 1987
Paradise Lost
Las Colinas was supposed to be Can-Do City. So why couldn’t it?
Politics & Policy
October 1, 1987
Famine, Pestilence, Destruction, and Death
These are only aliases. Their real names are Mattox, Mauro, Richards, and Hightower. And they may be leading the Democratic party to its apocalypse.
Business
October 1, 1987
Every Bar but Hershey’s
We have seen the future of Dallas nightlife, and it is called Dallas Alley.
Style & Design
October 1, 1987
Oh, Give Me a Home Where the Naugahyde Roams
Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when dude ranch decor reigned supreme in the family room.
News & Politics
October 1, 1987
A Cross to Bear
Three recent scandals in the Methodist church are forcing it to do some serious soul-searching.
Being Texan
October 1, 1987
The Double Life of Finis Crutchfield
The bishop denied until the end that he got AIDS from homosexual contact. But the furor that resulted from his death has opened the door on his life as a gay man.
Politics & Policy
September 1, 1987
The Time of His Life
Henry Cisneros has the vision and charisma of a born leader. Does it matter that he has the soul of an Aggie?
Sports
September 1, 1987
Unsportsmanlike Conduct
When he played for the Dallas Cowboys, Hollywood Henderson had everything. Here he tells how he lost it.
Style & Design
September 1, 1987
The Fantasy World of Victor Costa
Texas’ most famous dress designer dreamed up the perfect evening gown for the average American woman—it’s frilly, it’s flashy, and it’s a $300 copy of a $15,000 Paris original.
Critters
September 1, 1987
Shark!
Three shark attacks on the Texas coast this summer are making swimmers edgy and chambers of commerce ask one question: what’s going on out there?
Business
August 1, 1987
Cities in Bondage
When eighty-year-old Decker Jackson gives financial advice to Texas public officials, nothing in life is certain but debt and taxes.
Health
August 1, 1987
The Booming Business of AIDS
For some entrepreneurs, the dark cloud of AIDS has proved to have a silver lining
News & Politics
August 1, 1987
The Time It Always Rained
The wettest spell in memory has given the people who live in West Texas an unfamiliar topic of conversation.
Business
August 1, 1987
The Sleaziest Man in Texas
The rich and eccentric heir to a rich and eccentric Galveston family, Shearn Moody, Jr., craved an empire all his own. But his lack of self-restraint cost him his bank, his insurance company, his fortune, and now, perhaps, his freedom.
Sports
July 1, 1987
Donald Curry vs. the World
All boxers are wary in the ring, where defeat is only a well-placed punch away. But Donald Curry knows that the real terrors of boxing lie beyond the ropes.
Recipes
July 1, 1987
Hold the Ants!
From smoked chicken salad to Kahlua s’mores, our summer picnic sampler has a spread for you.
Being Texan
July 1, 1987
I’ve Been Rich and I’ve Been Poor
The fond memories and hard times of a postboom oil heiress.
True Crime
July 1, 1987
Drug Lord
There are three secrets to Miguel Felix Gallardo’s multimillion-dollar empire of drugs and power. Corruption, corruption, and corruption.
Sports
June 1, 1987
Texas Primer: Clint Murchison, Jr.
He was one tycoon who enjoyed the hell out of his money.
Texas History
June 1, 1987
Sombreros of the Gods?
For centuries, scientists have searched for the answers to the mystery of Nosehenge. Now—for the first time—the startling truth.
Music
June 1, 1987
Culture Club
Once San Antonio’s elite took pride in their support of the city’s fine symphony. When the cream of that elite, the Symphony Society board, abruptly canceled the upcoming season, it was time for some soul-searching
Being Texan
June 1, 1987
The Jeffrey Show
Heads turn when he passes. He’s on half of Houston’s A-party list. Rock singer? Investment banker? Nope. Meet Father Jeffrey Walker, Episcopal priest.
Business
June 1, 1987
The Party’s Over
In the early eighties, some Dallas savings and loans reaped profits in real estate investments while land was flipped, appraisals were inflated, and property was developed. Now the land deals have flopped, property values are deflated, and there are empty buildings all over town. And some S&Ls are broke
News & Politics
June 1, 1987
The No Decade
Like it or not, it’s time to start behaving yourself.
Art
May 31, 1987
New Kid on the Block
The Menil Collection has received so much attention that its opening this month may seem anticlimactic. The only unknown is what the director plans to do with it all.
Travel & Outdoors
May 1, 1987
All Aboard for Copper Canyon
Try North America’s best travel bargain—the Copper Canyon train ride. For $9 you can see Indians who run down deer on foot, Mennonites who speak German, and the most spectacular scenery in Mexico.
Politics & Policy
May 1, 1987
Heads, We Win, Tails, You Lose
Highly partisan justices are at the center of the Supreme Court scandal.
Politics & Policy
May 1, 1987
Blind Justice
Should a judge’s friendships survive his election to the Supreme Court of Texas?
Music
May 1, 1987
Every Good Boy Does Fine
In the late seventies, celebrated pianist Van Cliburn inexplicably disappeared from public life. No tortured artist in hiding, Cliburn is having the time of his life sitting around his Fort Worth mansion in his bathrobe.
True Crime
May 1, 1987
The Longest Ride of His Life
When Randall Adams was sentenced to death ten years ago, the Dallas community thought a cop killing had been put to rest. But it hasn’t.
Politics & Policy
April 1, 1987
High Noon at the Capitol
The biggest legislative bloodbath in 31 years is shaping up between Clements and Hobby. At stake: not only the state’s education budget but the economic and political future of Texas as well.