People Magazine Founding Editor Still Loves That Shirtless Telly Savalas Cover
Thanks to Kojak, Dick Stolley's best day at the Time & Life building came around in the summer of 1974.
“Who loves ya, baby!”
It’s the line actor Telly Savalas made famous during his run as Kojak on the 1973-78 CBS detective series. It’s also the sentiment People magazine founding editor Dick Stolley was shouting from the other coast in between Seasons One and Two.
As Stolley recounted during a recent reunion of Time Inc. employees and panel discussion at the company’s soon-to-be-vacated Time & Life building headquarters at 1271 Avenue of the Americas, People was failing miserably in its earliest days to reach a lofty goal of one million weekly U.S.
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