According to an apocryphal tale from this era, in a televised face-off, either Capp ( on the Dick Cavett Show ) or ( more commonly ) conservative talk show host Joe Pyne ( on his own show ) is supposed to have taunted iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa about his long hair, asking Zappa if he thought he was a girl.

According to Dick Cavett's New York Times blog, when the elderly Groucho visited an old friend in the hospital, he said to the elevator attendant, as if in a department store, " Men's tonsils, please.

According to forensic psychologist Dick Anthony, the CIA invented the concept of " brainwashing " as a propaganda strategy to undercut communist claims that American POWs in Korean communist camps had voluntarily expressed sympathy for communism.

According to the foreword of Ubik: The Screenplay ( by Tim Powers, a friend of Dick's and fellow science fiction writer ), Dick had an idea for the film which involved " the film itself appearing to undergo a series of reversions: to black-and-white, then to the awkward jerkiness of very early movies, then to a crookedly jammed frame which proceeds to blacken, bubble and melt away, leaving only the white glare of the projection bulb, which in turn deteriorates to leave the theater in darkness, and might almost leave the moviegoer wondering what sort of dilapidated, antique jalopy he'll find his car-keys fitting when he goes outside.

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According to the legend of Dick Whittington the bells could once be heard from as far away as Highgate ( 5 miles ).

According to Lennon in 1972, The Beatles ' music publisher Dick James was quite pleased with " No Reply ":

According to KO Magazine, Gómez led on fight judge Harold Lederman's card by 125-121, and on Dick Cole's by 126-120, while Pintor led on Artie Aidala's card by 124-121 at the time of the stoppage.

According to Dick Hebdige, members of a subculture often signal their membership through a distinctive and symbolic use of style, which includes fashions, mannerisms, and argot.

According to Charles Dick, who succeeded Hanna in the Senate after the latter's death in 1904, " Mr. Hanna had as much to do with the election of Mr. Garfield as any single individual in the country.

According to Dick Davis, professor of Persian at Ohio State University, it is " by far the best edition of the Shahnameh available, and it is surely likely to remain such for a very long time ".

According to Lynch, the opening scene of the film where Fred Madison hears the words, " Dick Laurent is dead ," over his intercom really happened to him at his home.

According to Williams, philosophers and theologians such as Thomas Dick suggested that the " best place to discover the true attributes of deity was in Nature.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest documented reference is a recipe for " Plum Bolster, or Spotted Dick ", in Alexis Soyer's The modern Housewife or ménagère ( 1849 ).

According to an October 2, 2004 survey by Newsweek, 47 % of registered voters would vote for John Kerry / John Edwards if the election were held on that day, 45 % would vote for George W. Bush / Dick Cheney, and 2 % would vote for Ralph Nader / Peter Camejo.

According to Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff of Secretary of State Colin Powell, interviewed by the BBC, the State Department initially considered the offer, but it was ultimately rejected by the office of Vice President Dick Cheney.

" According to Dick Miller, all of the dialogue between his character and Mel Welles was ad-libbed.

According to Michael Holley's book Patriot Reign, the Patriots were considering Brady and Tim Rattay, both of whom had received positive reviews from then-quarterbacks coach Dick Rehbein.

According to Newsweek, he had wanted to investigate the George W. Bush Administration's handling of port security, the Medicare prescription drug program and Dick Cheney's energy task force.

According to the final episode, Diddy Dick and Dom left the cupboard to go to Hollywood.

According to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barton Gellman, former Vice President Dick Cheney told Armey that Saddam Hussein's family had direct ties to Al-Qaeda and that Saddam was developing miniature nuclear weapons.

According to contemporary accounts, a cattleman named Dick McNulty and Chalk Beeson, owner of the Long Branch Saloon, convinced Allison and his cowboys to surrender their guns.

According to a 1936 Houston Chronicle article, Sam Houston was to be renamed after Dick Dowling, while the Sam Houston name would be taken by a new high school in southwestern Houston.

According to an estimate by the cinematographer for the film, Dick Bush, about 85 % of all camerawork in Culloden was hand-held.

According to the historian David Childs, “ Brandt was anxious that his government should be a reforming administration and a number of reforms were embarked upon ”.

According to Belinsky biographer Maury Allen, Brandt told Belinsky, " Nice game, Bo, but it's over.

According to Schraner and Brandt ; an aluminium alloy shell reduced spoke breakage due to aluminium being softer allowing the spoke to seat into the flange and disperse the stress at the bend in the spoke over a wider area.

According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.

According to the road manager of Quacky Duck, Parsons was, despite being frequently drunk, a kind soul who provided business and musical guidance to the younger band.

According to his manager, Kushil Gunasekera, Muralitharan qualifies for this status because his family originates from India.

According to a 1998 report created by William Brankowitz, a deputy project manager in the U. S. Army Chemical Materials Agency, the Army created at least 26 chemical weapons dump sites in the ocean off at least 11 states on both the west and east coasts.

According to the official site of the Pro Football Hall of Fame: Barron Hilton agreed after his general manager, Frank Leahy picked the Chargers name when he purchased an AFL franchise for Los Angeles.

According to former stage manager David Blayney ( 15 years with ZZ Top ) in his book, Sharp Dressed Men, sound engineer Linden Hudson co-wrote much of the material on the album as a live-in high-tech music teacher to Beard and Gibbons.

According to Arthur Croxton, the manager of London's Coliseum, the amputation was not apparent during her performances, which were done with the use of an artificial limb.

According to Jeffrey Hummel, district business manager, costs for building projects coupled with salaries, transportation costs and increased charges for energy, will mean continued property tax increases.

" ( According to historian Tim Parrish, Presley's manager, Colonel Parker, " had threatened to remove Elvis from the show if Sullivan did not apologize for telling the press that Elvis's ' gyrations ' were immoral.

According to The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic by Martin Grams, the entire production was originally filmed with Paul Douglas ( the manager in the 1951 film, Angels in the Outfield ) in the role, calling him " MacGarry " rather than " McGovern ".

According to ESPN. com's Ron Flatter: " He was the pioneer of boxing's bigger-than-life entourages, including a secretary, barber, masseur, voice coach, a coterie of trainers, beautiful women, a dwarf mascot and lifelong manager George Gainford.

According to manager Brett Alperowitz in an interview with HitQuarters, Madonna's label Maverick " really wanted to sign the band in the worst possible way, even to the point where I had to tell Madonna that I couldn ’ t put her on the phone with Jimmy Pop.

According to the band's manager Gerry Bron ( brother of the actress Eleanor Bron ), Vivian Stanshall was given several weeks to produce songs for the new professional Bonzo Dog Band.

According to N. W. A's manager Jerry Heller, Knight and his henchmen threatened Heller and Eazy-E with lead pipes and baseball bats to make them release Dre, The D. O. C., and Michel ' le from their contracts.

According to The Mission's manager Tony Perrin, the case never went to court and Hussey's new band was able to release their material through an independent outlet.

According to Medak, the project got started one night that he and O ' Toole were returning from the theatre, which " meant stopping at every pub between Soho and Hampstead, and it didn't matter if it was after closing hour because he would knock on the door and just say ' Peter's here ,' and every door opened for him "; Later on, at O ' Toole's apartment, the deeply inebriated actor phoned his manager and said, " I'm with the crazy Hungarian and I know I'm drunk but I give you 24 hours to set this movie up.

According to Redding's and Sam & Dave's manager Phil Walden, Redding refused to be booked on the same bill with Sam & Dave again, not wanting to have to follow their explosive act.

According to the July 14, 1967 Time magazine article, after " Don't Make Me Over " hit in 1962, she answered the call of her manager (" C ' mon, baby, you gotta go "), left school and went on a tour of France, where critics crowned her " Paris ' Black Pearl ," having been introduced on stage at Paris Olympia that year by Marlene Dietrich.

According to Divine's manager, Bernard Jay, this was " not because Divine happened to be a gay person himself … but because it was the gay community that openly and proudly identified with the determination of the female character Divine ".

According to his manager Bernard Jay, Divine would also regularly engage in sexual activities with young men that he would meet while performing, sometimes becoming infatuated with them.

According to Canton manager Jack Cusack, who was at Turner's bedside when he died, his last words were " I know I must go ," he said, " but I'm satisfied, for we beat Peggy Parratt.

According to the journal, " The Subject Was Roses opened on Broadway with a producer who had never produced a Broadway play ; a director who had never directed one ; a scenic artist who had never designed one ; a general manager who had never managed one ; and three actors who were virtually unknown.

According to sound historian David Simons, after Columbia took over the 30th Street Studios in the late 1940s and A & R manager Mitch Miller had tweaked it to perfection, Miller issued a standing order that the drapes and other fittings were not to be touched, and the cleaners had specific orders never to mop the bare wooden floor for fear it might alter the acoustic properties of the hall.

According to the project manager Selja Flink of the National Board of Antiquities, it was most probably the object noticed in the ground-penetrating radar investigations.