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.
Business
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Business
April 30, 1983
A Monument to Making It
It’s a Xanadu of condos, restaurants, gardens, and gyms, a high-tech haven that can outritz nearby Dallas. It’s Las Colinas, a home for corporations that appreciate the finer things in life.
Business
February 1, 1983
The Cassandra of Crude
Dale Steffes can predict the future of the oil business. So why do the majors turn a deaf ear? Because, says Steffes, the news is all bad.
Energy
October 1, 1982
“It’s Time To Make a Deal”
The inside story of Boone Pickens’ adventures in the Wall Street merger game, featuring action, suspense, drama, a few laughs, and a special guest appearance by President Ronald Reagan.
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.
Business
April 1, 1982
Meanwhile, Back In Giddings
Texas’ hottest oil patch is cooling down.
Business
February 1, 1982
The Beer That Made Armadillos Famous
For years no one would drink Lone Star beer because rednecks did; then one enterprising man figured out that if it was marketed right, everyone would want to drink Lone Star precisely because rednecks did.
Business
January 1, 1982
Trust Me. Just Sign Here.
Whenever you buy or sell a house, hundreds of dollars of your money goes for something called title insurance. Title insurance is a great deal—for the title company.
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.
Business
December 1, 1981
Oscar’s Follie
Coastal Corporation’s mastermind, Oscar Wyatt, keeps everyone guessing these days—from the IRS to society columnists to stock analysts.
Business
November 1, 1981
The Truth About Carnivals
A carny’s life is an endless ramble from one small town to the next—and that’s why he likes it.
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?
Business
September 30, 1981
A Little Bit of Heaven
Once the Hill Country meant small towns and Spartan values; now it’s ranchettes and easy living.
Business
June 30, 1981
Driving a Soft Bargain
Take the “Art of Negotiating” seminar, and you too can learn to wheel and deal with a smile.
Hunting & Fishing
April 1, 1981
Shrimpers
Someone endured weeks of hard work, loneliness, and seasickness to land that lovely pink delicacy on your plate.
Business
February 1, 1981
Old Oil: The Ranger Revival
Ranger was the most romantic field in the early oil boom. Now a major company is risking its future to prove that romance still lives.
Business
July 31, 1980
Why I wish I Didn’t Have $137 Million
Those luck Arabs, with all that oil! The only problem, as a Saudi finance minister points out, is that oil is all they have.
Energy
July 1, 1980
Profits? What Profits?
Reading Big Oil’s annual reports for the truth about profits is a little like drilling for oil in the Baltimore Canyon: you know it’s there, but how deep will you have to go to find it?
Business
June 1, 1980
Who Owns Texas?
The biggest landholders in the state, acre by acre.
Business
May 1, 1980
Three Gentlemen, One Ghost, and a Skyscraper
The intrigue behind the building of Houston’s Texas Commerce Tower was almost as monumental as the 75-story structure itself.
Business
March 1, 1980
Hustlers and Fortune Hunters Beware!
When the cable TV salesman comes calling, you should fully expect your city council to sell you down the river. Not that they mean to do it. It’s simply that history shows most city councils don’t know the first thing about cable. People who can barely figure out the briefs
Business
March 1, 1980
Invasion of the Cable Snatchers
In Texas the best way to get rich in cable television is to know just a little about TV and everything about politics.
Health
January 1, 1980
Life Got You Down? Getting Nowhere? Wishing for Wealth? For Success? For Happiness?
My friend, you have come to the right place.
Business
December 1, 1979
Picking Up the Pieces
You load sixteen tons, and what do you get? Ask your garbageman.
Business
October 1, 1979
Talking Money/The Heavy Hitters
What’s what and who’s who in Texas real estate.
Business
October 1, 1979
The Man Who Built River Oaks
Architect John Staub, the forgotten genius of River Oaks, transformed a few nondescript Houston streets into Millionaires’ Row.
Business
September 30, 1979
Sherwood Blount’s First Million
He believed in the American dream and it paid off.
Business
September 1, 1979
Easy Money
Faster than a speeding Master Charge, funkier than a garage sale, able to leap bad credit ratings at a single bound. Look, up at the sign! It’s a bank! It’s a store! It’s—Super Pawn!
Business
July 31, 1979
Texas Monthly Reporter
Valley politicos block minority TV; Dairy Queens reign in small-town Texas; woman diver yearns for Acapulco cliffs; Houston takes its lumps.
Business
July 1, 1979
Speed Freak
Fast food is tasteless and vulgar. There are other good things about it, too.
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.
Business
April 1, 1979
Sold American
China wants to drill for oil—and guess who knows how.
Energy
March 1, 1979
Psst . . . Have I Got a Deal for You!
Oil is a slippery business.
Business
March 1, 1979
Heavenly Hosts
Forget the church, forget the steeple, turn on the tube to see all the people.
Energy
December 1, 1978
So You Want to Be Chairman of Exxon?
How the world’s largest corporation decides who will make it to the top—and who won’t.
Business
November 1, 1978
Bad Jobs
If working hard builds character, these people must be saints.
Business
October 1, 1978
The Last of the Great Ladies
Oveta Culp Hobby has gone from a country town to a position of power and wealth. What she hasn’t done will also be her legacy.
Energy
October 1, 1978
Working the Rigs
Show us the hardest working man in Texas and we’ll show you a roughneck.
Business
August 1, 1978
Trouble in Paradise
Resort hotels and luxury condominiums line the shore of South Padre, yet foot by foot, day by day, the island is washing away.
Business
April 30, 1978
Unfriendly Skies
Braniff is hopping the Atlantic to London; Pan Am is just hopping mad.
Business
April 1, 1978
Daddy’s Money
The feuding over H. L. Hunt’s vast fortune is a family affair, and what a family!
Business
December 1, 1977
They’re Minding the Store
If you’re looking for Houston’s elite, forget the Petroleum Club; go to the produce center at Jamail’s.
Business
December 1, 1977
King of the Catalogs
Who is Roger Horchow and why is he doing these terrible things to our Christmas budgets?
Texana
November 20, 1977
The Last Frontier
The pioneers who came to tame the West met their match in the land of ‘Giant.’
Business
November 1, 1977
Word of the Profits
Move over Harold Robbons: religious books sell big.
Business
May 31, 1977
Diamonds Aren’t Forever
Spring cleaning in the house that Zale built.
Business
May 31, 1977
Clothes Made the Man
Why Willie Farah is taking up slack—not slacks—these days.
Business
April 30, 1977
Catchy Coup
How to squeeze a multimillion-dollar business out of a ten-second radio jingle.
Business
April 30, 1977
The Wizard of Oz (Ret.)
Question: What goes on behind the closed doors of the stateÌs most elegant restaurant these days? Answer: Nothing.