Word: devoss
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course of reporting and writing about Joni Mitchell, TIME Correspondent David DeVoss received a dinner invitation from her. His report...
...with it a renewed sense of pride. Some Navajos these days drive cars with bumper stickers proclaiming DINE BIZEEL (Navajo Power). In the towns that ring the reservation, this new assertiveness has been happily greeted by sympathetic Anglos; but others have reacted violently. Last week TIME'S David DeVoss visited the Navajos and filed this report from Farmington...
...hardest thing about interviewing Merle Haggard," says Los Angeles Correspondent David DeVoss of this week's cover subject, "is finding him." Since Haggard is a compulsive fisherman, ever searching for the perfect lake or stream, DeVoss was sure he had caught his man when he heard that the country singer was at Orange Lake, Fla. DeVoss was about to pack his lures when he learned that Haggard, bitten by the gambling bug, was in Reno, but would meet him in Bakersfield, Calif., for an interview. Four days of high rolling, however, proved too much for Haggard, who called...
Growing up in Texas should have given DeVoss an early start in country music, but, he says, for him "paradise was listening to the Beach Boys while cruising Dallas streets in a supercharged GTO." He first discovered country music at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was TIME's campus stringer. He joined our Houston bureau after his graduation in 1968, then worked in Montreal, New York City, Detroit and Saigon before moving on to the U.S. West...
...DeVoss saw that there is no reclusive Dylan. There is only the Bob Dylan who has consistently shared more of his inner nakedness with more people than most gregarious politicians could ever hope to shake hands with, and then hide from...