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BACK WHEN Jerry Jeff Walker started playing at bars and nightclubs in Austin, Texas, country music was a lot different from what it is now. Back then, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings were still putting grease in their hair and blending into the multitude of singers in Nashville, Rusty Weir was grinding out acid rock, and David Allen Coe was in prison. Nobody, least of all Jerry Jeff, would have guessed that he was starting a musical movement of sorts, still less that all those people would be drawn into...
...only in the past decade or so that U.S. designers have become celebrities in their own right. With a few exceptions, like the late Norman Norell and the late Claire McCardell, most designers used to work semianonymously for manufacturers. Today, says June Weir, fashion editor of Women's Wear Daily, "customers are much more designer-conscious. So when a customer walks into a store, she's heard of Bill Blass, Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein and is willing to pay a little extra to be able to say she is wearing designer clothes...
Jack Scott may have his own credibility problems. TIME has learned that Scott approached Kohn and Weir last Memorial Day weekend and asked them to help him write a book and a magazine article about Patty and the S.L.A. The trio negotiated with McGraw-Hill Editor John Simon for a contract, but Simon's bosses rejected their price-a $100,000 to $200,000 advance-as excessive, and had doubts about the reliability of their information. Scott, Kohn and Weir then went to work on the Rolling Stone article, for which the magazine offered Scott as much...
Late last week Scott denied those disclosures, again by telephone. "Micki and I have absolutely not been working with Howard Kohn and David Weir on any story of the nature that was published in Rolling Stone," he told TIME...
Meanwhile, as Scott battled with Kohn and Weir, Rolling Stone was not exactly suffering. The magazine enjoyed its richest publicity harvest since it sprang full-blown from the brow of Wenner in 1967, and an extra printing of 125,000 copies of the Hearst issue was selling fast...