D Magazine October 1981

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1982 AUTO GUIDE
Car makers are discovering a maxim lost in the fuel-frenzied early Seventies: Fun sells cars.
By Alex BarclayRoyce
A School That Really Works
THE PROBLEM with public schools in Dallas is not blacks or bilinguals. It’s DISD. When a group of East Dallas parents decided they’d had enough, they started their own school. Now their children are getting an education.
By GRADY HILLMAN
ANSWER PAGE
By D Magazine
BREAKING AWAY
Most marriages are made of magic, but the magic usually fades fast and the relationship disappears like a mirage
By D Magazine
CYNTHIA’S STORY
Sometimes she has a daydream: Dale comes home and wants her back again; she stands there triumphantly and says ’No’
By CONNIE DURHAM
DALLAS’ LITTLE HONG KONG
By D Magazine
EDITOR’S PAGE
By Rowland Stiteler
HARVEY’S HUMOR IS ALL WET
By Greg Jones
HERALD MANAGES WITHOUT
By D Magazine
IF YOU DON’T MIND THE SIGHT OF BLOOD IN THE COURTROOM, YOU CAN WIN BIG
12 ways to make a killing through divorce
By G.R.
JACK’S STORY
They got married when they were too young; he tried to be a bachelor and a husband at the same time; he was destined to fail
By MIKE SHROPSHIRE
JO’S STORY
Relationships, like people, change with the passing years; sometimes a ’good’ divorce is the best thing that can happen to a couple
By Jo Brans
LETTERS
By D Magazine
MASTER PLAN AGAIN
By D Magazine
October Events PREVIEWS
By D Magazine
REZONING THE GROVE
By D Magazine
RIDING ON A SMILE AND A SHOESHINE
BE IT CADILLACS OR CHRYSANTHEMUMS, WHAT THEY’RE REALLY SELLING IS THEMSELVES.
By Amy Cunningham
ROBERT’S STORY
Thousands of marriages lie beneath the sod of memory; was it a mere coincidence that they all succumbed in the same era?
By ROBERT FARRAR CAPON
SAVING NATURE IN DALLAS
By D Magazine
TEACHERS THROW IN ERASER
By D Magazine

40 Greatest Stories
Tom Landry: The Gamesman
The Dallas Cowboys coach sees life as a game, not a jungle. The purpose of the game is to win. Sometimes that makes the game a jungle for the men who play for him.
By Peter Gent
THE NEW NORMALITY
Today’s average marriage will dissolve in 7.6 years; does that mean our society is failing? Or is our culture simply changing?
By George Rodrigue
THUMB AWARD CITY COUNCIL TRIES HIGHER MATH
By D Magazine
THUMB AWARD TACB SAVES DALLAS FROM SIN
By D Magazine
THUMB AWARD THE CETA PROGRAM THAT WORKED
By D Magazine
TRAVIS TAKES OUR MONEY AND RUNS
By George Rodrigue
WINDFALLS
By Carol Edgar