On the Cover 72
As Dallas' bed-hopping baby Ewing, she lands her TV husband this week, but Charlene Tilton, 21, kicked her suitor out of the house to pursue her showbiz ambition
Up Front 16
Dr. Stanley Jacob of Oregon leads the fight to legalize what thousands swear is a "miracle" painkiller: DMSO
Diehard anti-Communist Anna Chennault makes a surprisingly sentimental journey—to Peking
Official Preppy Handbook editor Lisa Birnbach is attacked by Princeton anti-snob Michael Katz
Maverick owner Al Davis will take his Oakland Raiders to the Super Bowl—and then maybe on to L.A.
Party 31
Rockers Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith make a Broadway splash in Pirates of Penzance
Lookout 35
Radio producer Jack Kirby
Baby boutiquer Jeanette Ouazanan
In His Own Words 36
You may be allergic to your own house, warns Dr. Alfred Zamm
BONUS BOOK 41
In this closing excerpt from James Michener's The Covenant, two women struggle to save a vineyard—and a dynasty
Happy 55
Barbara Isenberg learns just what the toy market will Bear—Teddys with personality
GONING HOME 56
In a new section in which the celebrated return for a look at the faces and places they knew as children, author Truman Capote makes a nostalgic and raucous pilgrimage to his birthplace, New Orleans
Off the Screen 61
Gerard Depardieu may be France's new Belmondo—but don't call him macho
For a Song 67
The Bellamy Brothers get their bucks atop the country charts, not honkytonk bulls
Crime 70
British police may have saved Olivia Reivers from becoming the Yorkshire Ripper's next victim
Coping 78
Her terrifying rape in 1974 cost Connie Francis her marriage and singing career but, with support from her family, she's starting a new life
Couples 85
Longtime Reagan friends and fund raisers Charles and Mary Jane Wick plan a grand old party—the Inauguration
Mail 4
People Picks & Pans 8
Barry Bostwick and Deborah Raffin make like Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn in ABC's new spin-off of Foul Play
Two literary monsters walk again in The Frankenstein Diaries and the Wallace Family's Book of Predictions
On Super Trouper, ABBA produces more ersatz American rock, but, if nothing else, the Plasmatics are different
Ming the Merciless is still pestering our hero in a new Flash Gordon; Richard Pryor is still teaching soul to Gene Wilder in Stir Crazy
People Puzzle 64
Star Tracks 76
Cheryl Ladd is no longer riding solo
A new teen beauty for Roman Polanski?
George Hamilton versus Lauren Hutton
At last—Barbara Eden's navel!
Ed Muskie braces a hostage wife
Chatter 88
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