According to Capp ’ s longtime friend Milton Caniff, Capp was “ charming ” when he chose to be, but he added, “ He could be very difficult if he didn ’ t like you .” Frank Frazetta described Capp as " exasperating, infuriating, domineering, obnoxious, loud, lots of fun, acidic and lovable.

According to Johannes Virolainen, a longtime Agrarian and Centrist politician, some Finnish right-wingers hated and mocked Kekkonen for the decision and cast him as a power-hungry opportunist.

According to the town's official website, many longtime residents still use that name.

According to Ali's longtime physician and cornerman Ferdie Pacheco, it was believed by Ali and his trainers that Joe Frazier was washed up after his devastating loss to George Foreman, and the relative ease with which Ali had defeated Frazier in their rematch after that fight seemed to bear this out.

According to the longtime late Agrarian and Centrist politician Johannes Virolainen, he believed that the incumbent President was too much favoured over the other candidates while standing for re-election ( see Virolainen, " The Last Electoral Term " / Viimeinen vaalikausi, published in Finland in 1991 ).

According to the magazine, America's Hottest Colleges " have one attribute in common: they're creating buzz among students, school officials and longtime observers of the admissions process ... each reflects a place that is preparing students well for a complex world.

According to Theodore H. White's book about the 1964 election, Bush and Rockefeller were longtime friends.

According to frontman Doug Pinnick, while longtime King's X producer Sam Taylor had a big influence on the band's sound, he never captured the heaviness of their live performance in the studio.

According to longtime NSA computer expert Samuel Simon Snyder, " We chose the name from Li ' l Abner Yokum, the comic strip character who was a big brute, but not very smart, because we believed that computers, which can be big and do brute-force operations, aren't very bright either.

According to the New York Times reviewer, " Nowadays Ms. LuPone generates more raw excitement than any other performer on the Broadway and cabaret axis, with the possible exception of Liza Minnelli .... And her brilliant show, conceived and directed by her longtime collaborator, Scott Wittman, deserves many lives, perhaps even a Broadway run in an expanded edition.

According to Mark Fabiani, the Chargers general counsel, Goodman is a longtime season ticket holder of the Chargers and a fan.

According to Schulz, Frieda's character was inspired by his longtime friend Frieda Rich, a local artist whom he met while taking classes at the Art Instruction Schools in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

According to longtime friends Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, he did not drink in real life.

) According to a Daschle spokeswoman, the former Senator " simply and probably naively considered its use a generous offer " from Hindery, " a longtime friend.

According to a longtime student of the Kwan Um School Mu Soeng, " Sahn did not even insist that all his ordained American students make the monastery their home and contribute to its growth as a monastic center.

According to Cullie Tarleton, who ran the station at that time, putting the Tar Heels on WBT was largely the idea of longtime coach Dean Smith, who wanted to tell recruits from New England that their parents would be able to listen to the games.

According to Blue Blood by Art Chansky ( a longtime historian on the UNC program ), Doherty was told on March 31 that he would not be allowed to return due to an irreparable rift with his players.

According to one longtime colleague, Joe Biddle, who Russell hired and mentored, he had the uncanny ability of making others feel more important than himself.

* According to the comic Spike: Old Times, Cecily was already Halfrek, a vengeance demon ( and longtime friend of Anya ), at the time of her meeting with William, and subsequently massacred the room of people who had laughed at his poetic efforts.

( According to longtime local columnist Herb Caen, the original plans in 1934 called for a cross high, but there was " enough concrete on hand for an extra three feet – so on it went.

According to longtime McLendon national program director Don Keyes ( d. 2006 ), in his book Gordon McLendon and Me, McLendon wanted to own a station in the San Francisco market, and 960 KROW seemed ideal because of its relatively low dial position and strong coverage of the San Francisco market.

According to the Memphis Business Journal, his departure from Morgan Keegan was a " palace coup " after " a group of longtime producers from the Memphis-based securities firm's investment banking and retail sides demanded Laffey's removal.

According to the published diaries of Cecil Beaton, in his later years Lord Carisbrooke had a longtime male lover, Simon Fleet.

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 Dick Brandt, manager of the Yuba County airport in 1955, between 550 and 600 Sutter County residents were rescued from the floodwater by helicopter.

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.