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1982 AUTO GUIDE

By Alex BarclayRoyce | 38 years ago Car makers are discovering a maxim lost in the fuel-frenzied early Seventies: Fun sells cars.

A School That Really Works

By GRADY HILLMAN | 38 years ago 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.

ANSWER PAGE

By D Magazine | 38 years ago

BREAKING AWAY

By D Magazine | 38 years ago Most marriages are made of magic, but the magic usually fades fast and the relationship disappears like a mirage

CONSUMER CONDO CAVEAT

By Katherine Hampton | 38 years ago How to buy without getting burned

CYNTHIA’S STORY

By CONNIE DURHAM | 38 years ago Sometimes she has a daydream: Dale comes home and wants her back again; she stands there triumphantly and says ’No’

DALLAS’ LITTLE HONG KONG

By D Magazine | 38 years ago

EDITOR’S PAGE

By Rowland Stiteler | 38 years ago

HARVEY’S HUMOR IS ALL WET

By Greg Jones | 38 years ago

HERALD MANAGES WITHOUT

By D Magazine | 38 years ago

IF YOU DON’T MIND THE SIGHT OF BLOOD IN THE COURTROOM, YOU CAN WIN BIG

By G.R. | 38 years ago 12 ways to make a killing through divorce

INSIGHTS

By Michael Berryhill | 38 years ago Dreaming in landscapes.

JACK’S STORY

By MIKE SHROPSHIRE | 38 years ago 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

JO’S STORY

By JO BRANS | 38 years ago Relationships, like people, change with the passing years; sometimes a ’good’ divorce is the best thing that can happen to a couple

LETTERS

By D Magazine | 38 years ago

MASTER PLAN AGAIN

By D Magazine | 38 years ago

MEDIA BATTLING MA BELL

By Pat Bradley | 38 years ago Publishers fight ’dial-a-newspaper.’

October Events PREVIEWS

By D Magazine | 38 years ago

RATING THE DIVORCE JUDGES:

By G.R. | 38 years ago A who’s who in the ’soap opera’ court circuit

RESTAURANTS DINING OUT

By D Magazine | 38 years ago Noodling around with homemade pasta.

REZONING THE GROVE

By D Magazine | 38 years ago

RIDING ON A SMILE AND A SHOESHINE

By Amy Cunningham | 38 years ago BE IT CADILLACS OR CHRYSANTHEMUMS, WHAT THEY’RE REALLY SELLING IS THEMSELVES.

ROBERT’S STORY

By ROBERT FARRAR CAPON | 38 years ago Thousands of marriages lie beneath the sod of memory; was it a mere coincidence that they all succumbed in the same era?

SAVING NATURE IN DALLAS

By D Magazine | 38 years ago

TEACHERS THROW IN ERASER

By D Magazine | 38 years ago

THE CHILDREN SPEAK OUT: ’HAVING DADDY GONE WAS BETTER THAN ALL THAT FIGHTING’

By D Magazine | 38 years ago

THE CITY LIPSTICK & LARCENY

By Lee Ballard | 38 years ago On the streets with a lady of the law.

40 Greatest Stories

Tom Landry: The Gamesman

By Peter Gent | 38 years ago 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.

THE NEW NORMALITY

By GEORGE RODRIGUE | 38 years ago Today’s average marriage will dissolve in 7.6 years; does that mean our society is failing? Or is our culture simply changing?

THUMB AWARD CITY COUNCIL TRIES HIGHER MATH

By D Magazine | 38 years ago

THUMB AWARD TACB SAVES DALLAS FROM SIN

By D Magazine | 38 years ago

THUMB AWARD THE CETA PROGRAM THAT WORKED

By D Magazine | 38 years ago

TRAVIS TAKES OUR MONEY AND RUNS

By George Rodrigue | 38 years ago

WINDFALLS

By Carol Edgar | 38 years ago

WINE SPECIAL CASES

By Colman Andrews | 38 years ago They’re hard to find, but they’re worth it.

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