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...smiling lady is British Tory Leader Margaret Thatcher, who had come to London's Royal Smithfield Show to cultivate the farm vote. The wary-eyed animal at her side is Kojak, a Charolais and Aberdeen Angus steer entered in the annual livestock fair. Kojak, the property of Sir Hugh Froser (who is chairman of Harrods department store), had good reason for uneasiness. Despite his new political connection, he was put on the auction block and bought by butchers to be converted into Christmas roast beef...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 15, 1975 | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

More often than not, the crimes described by Police 5 host Shaw Taylor are less bizarre−assaults or auto thefts. The drama is kept to a minimum. "We are not in the business of competing with Kojak or The Streets of San Francisco," says a Yard spokesman. Still, for the past two years the show has consistently been one of the ten top-rated weekend shows on the telly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: To Catch a Thief | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

...fuckin' judge lives right down the street from me. I spent Saturday afternoon over his house, lookin' at his car. Guy runned right over that nigger, but the judge lives down the street from me. Jeesus, he's happy..." And the bald-pated cigar-chomping businessman who looks like Kojak--"Gee son, I'm awfully sorry I can't let that one go for less than $25. I had to pay $200 for the car it came out of. I got the one for the V-6 cheaper, but the truth of the matter is I paid more...

Author: By Jeff Leonard, | Title: A Cambridge Junkyard Junket | 9/26/1975 | See Source »

...covering up something else as well." Other public figures who are flaunting their hairless hairlines: Singer-Composer Isaac Hayes, Comedian Don Rickles, the Oakland Raiders' Otis Sistrunk and America's Cup Skipper Bill Picker. Unquestionably at the forefront of these notable noggins is television's Kojak, Sex Symbol Telly Savalas. Baldness, says Savalas, "takes us back to Day One and the way we looked when we first came into this world. 'Bald is beautiful' was the first comment we made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Bald Is Beautiful | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

...helped to clear him. It took seven years to find a witness (in Puerto Rico) whose testimony exonerated Whitmore from an unrelated rape conviction. Raab wrote a book about the case (Justice in the Back Room), and CBS later bought the screen rights, transforming Raab into the fictional Kojak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Original Kojak | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

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