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...without William S. Paley? Archie Bunker should sooner be sans scowl, Kojak minus his shiny pate. True, last week the company's founder and guiding presence did say, as he promised last fall, that he would step down as chief executive officer May 11. Paley also named his successor: John David Backe, CBS's president, whom the chairman installed in October after firing Arthur R. Taylor (TIME, Oct. 25). But Paley will remain chairman and will still hold 6% of CBS's stock. He took care to tell shareholders at the annual meeting in Los Angeles, where...
...Kojak Acts. In almost every large city across the country, police are in an angry, embattled, sometimes dangerously rebellious mood. During one of the ugly police demonstrations in New York City, the protesting officers spotted Telly Savalas, TV Supercop Kojak, and enthusiastically hoisted him on their shoulders. "I saw that as a significant act," says a sympathetic member of the police brass who was watching. "Kojak is a guy who talks back, who acts." That is, he gruffly tells his boss (and anyone else) to get out of the way so he can do his job -which is what growing...
...networks in a toe-to-toe fight for first place. It was a tug of war and other picnic sports at Pepperdine University in southern California, featuring stars such as ABC's Lynda (Wonder Woman) Carter, NBC's Ben (Gemini Man) Murphy and CBS's Telly (Kojak) Savalas. In all, 24 prime-time principals channeled their energies into swimming, running and biking-all for the sake of a Nov. 13 ABC special titled Battle of the Network Stars. The winner on the playing fields of Pepperdine, as on the tube this season, was ABC, whose team members...
...states, he said, he could have won them. When New York's Dick Rosenbaum, his bald, sunburned head rising above the crowd, bellowed out with obvious pleasure a huge majority for the President, Reagan tried to perk up the mood: "That guy is going to turn me against Kojak...
...really don't know what's happening; I just sing for my own amazement," says George Savalas, 46, curly-haired kid brother of TV's Telly Savalas, 52. George, who usually plays harried Detective Sergeant Stavros on the Kojak series, has been playing to New York nightclub audiences lately -all thanks to an album of Greek folk tunes that he recorded last April. Judging from Savalas' enthusiasm after one performance, he may have brighter prospects as a cafe crooner than a TV cop. Says he: "I was walking four feet off the ground and singing like...