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.

According to Ethel Williams, who helped popularize the Texas Tommy in New York in 1913, the Texas Tommy " was like the Lindy ", and the basic steps were followed by a breakaway identical to that found in the Lindy.

According to Ramones drummer Tommy Ramone, " In its initial form, a lot of stuff was innovative and exciting.

According to rock historian Walter Rasmussen, Pete Townshend once said that The Who's 1969 album Tommy was inspired by the rock opera " Epic " by People!

According to Stallone, pro wrestling legend Terry Funk helped choreograph much of the street fight between Rocky and Tommy Gunn.

According to Marilyn Wisbey, her father's share was hidden by his father Tommy Wisbey Senior in the panels in the doors of his home.

According to Dixon & Godrich, Tommy Johnson and Ishman Bracey were recorded by Victor on that company's second field trip to Memphis, in 1928.

According to Yair Lapid, son of Tommy Lapid who was then the IBA director general, Lapid called his counterpart at NOS and convinced him to take the " undesired honour ", when he realised that the extra cost could paralyse the regular work of the IBA.

According to the film's director: Tommy Lee Wallace, on the Halloween: 25 Years of Terror documentary DVD, he said that the film had made no money, at the box office, it had " pissed-off " a lot of Halloween fans, it should have been released as just Season of the Witch, with no association, whatsoever, with the Halloween franchise, and he believes it might have found its ' audience, although it was " a good movie, by itself, but was not the Halloween franchise ".

According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in executing their search warrant, the federal agents seized 8, 000-10, 000 copies of the yet-to-be released documentary, a / k / a Tommy Chong.

According to polls / surveys conducted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( Canada's public broadcaster ), Tommy Douglas has been consistently voted as " The Most Important Canadian " for three years in a row.

According to Gene Wilder's autobiography, the Tommy role, played by Harrison Ford, was originally planned for John Wayne.

According to Nee, the slaying of Donald Killeen on May 13, 1972, was carried out not by Bulger but by Mullen Gang enforcers James Mantville and Tommy King.

According to Lieutenant General Sir William MacArthur in an article in the Army Medical Services Magazine ( circa 1950 ), " Tommy Atkins " was chosen as a generic name by the War Office in 1815.

According to Tommy Yune of Harmony Gold USA ( sub-licensor of the original Macross series and merchandising rights of The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?

According to the DVD commentary, Erin was originally supposed to be more like Tommy in the series ( worrisome, neurotic ), and Tommy was supposed to be more like how Erin was ( strong, supportive ).

According to David Simon, the creator of the HBO drama The Wire, the show's fictional mayor of Baltimore Tommy Carcetti is " not O ' Malley ", but O ' Malley was one of several inspirations.

According to General Tommy Franks, the commander of the U. S. military in the 2003 Iraq conflict, April Fool, an American officer working undercover as a diplomat, was approached by an Iraqi intelligence agent.

According to Twin Cities crime reporter Paul Maccabee, Kid Cann's rivalry with Minneapolis's Irish Mob ended after he and Irish Mob boss Tommy Banks divided their territories with a handshake.

According to Tommy James of Tommy James and the Shondells, during his time at the label, Roulette was a front business for the Genovese crime family.

According to some sources, including Tommy Chong, the film actually made more money during its second-run release in double-bill with the Blues Brothers film.

According to McDonald, the Gunston character and his show were initially devised as a parody of an ( unintentionally bad ) late-night Sydney TV variety show of the early 1970s hosted by expatriate American club entertainer Tommy Leonetti.