Later, it was revealed to be a collaborative hoax that Capp and his longtime pal Saunders had cooked up together.

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.

* Margery Eagan and Peter Gelzinis are longtime metro columnists, as is Joe Fitzgerald, who was formerly a sports columnist.

Mumy read the eulogy at Harris ' funeral and was asked to narrate his longtime friend's life on A & E Biography that same year.

They later became reacquainted through Jennifer Finch, one of Love's longtime friends and former bandmates, who was dating Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl at the time.

Some suspect that this " secret Cardinal " was Archbishop Stanisław Dziwisz, a close, longtime friend of John Paul II.

It was written by Christian Scientist, scholar and longtime Mother Church employee Robert Peel.

On February 18, 2010, it was announced that Shapiro ( following the end of the 2010 season ) would be promoted to team President, with current President Paul Dolan becoming the new Chairman / CEO, and longtime Shapiro assistant Chris Antonetti filling the GM role.

On January 18, 2011, longtime popular former first baseman and manager Mike Hargrove was brought in as a special adviser.

But Andropov's ability to reshape the top leadership was constrained by his poor health and the influence of his rival ( and longtime ally of Leonid Brezhnev ) Konstantin Chernenko, who had previously supervised personnel matters in the Central Committee.

The Cotton Bowl was the longtime home of the annual Cotton Bowl Classic college football bowl game, for which the stadium is named.

Eisenhower was a longtime member of the club, which operated one of his favorite courses.

Eleanor or Aliénor was the oldest of three children of William X, Duke of Aquitaine, whose glittering ducal court was on the leading edge of early – 12th-century culture, and his wife, Aenor de Châtellerault, the daughter of Aimeric I, Viscount of Châtellerault, and Dangereuse, who was William IX's longtime mistress as well as Eleanor's maternal grandmother.

A storefront in the corner of the building houses Tom's Restaurant, a longtime neighborhood fixture that was featured as the fictional diner " Monk's " for establishing shots in the television series " Seinfeld ".

The family reached the peak of its power under Fujiwara no Michinaga ( 966-1027 ), a longtime kampaku who was the grandfather of three emperors, the father of six empresses or imperial consorts, and the grandfather of seven additional imperial consorts ; it is no exaggeration to say that it was Michinaga who ruled Japan during this period, not the titular Emperors.

The divorce became final in December 17, 2001. Throughout the mid-1990s, many tabloids reported that he was having an affair with longtime friend and collaborator Trisha Yearwood.

Eventually, Parsons was asked to leave by Anita Pallenberg, Richards ' longtime domestic partner.

The film was Hawks's final collaboration with longtime friend William Faulkner before the author's death.

The South Carolina billionaire financier was a longtime HBC minority shareholder.

Jacob Piatt Dunn, longtime secretary of the Indiana Historical Society, noted that " hoosier " was frequently used in many parts of the South in the 19th century for woodsmen or rough hill people.

He was a longtime member of the American Federation of Teachers.

This was followed by a handful of East Coast shows as guests of their longtime friends The Beach Boys.

" It was also around this time that Gotti met Gambino underboss Aniello " Neil " Dellacroce.

He and his crew reported directly to Dellacroce as part of the concessions given by Castellano to keep Dellacroce as underboss, and Gotti was regarded as Dellacroce's protégé.

On April 13, 1986, underboss Frank DeCicco was killed when his car was bombed following a visit to Castellano loyalist James Failla.

A Castellano loyalist, Bilotti was a brutish loanshark with little of the diplomatic skill required as underboss.

Anastasia was named the new boss of the family, with Gambino as his underboss.

Gambino was disappointed with both his own underboss, Aniello Dellacroce and Dellacroce's ambitious protege John Gotti, so Gambino reorganized.

This strategic restructuring also created confusion in the FBI in the mid 1970s as to who the official underboss in the family was.

He was aided in this move by Anastasia crime family underboss Carlo Gambino.

Genovese was also dissuaded from a direct attack on Costello by the strength of underboss, Guarino " Willie Moore " Moretti, a Costello cousin and staunch ally who commanded a small army of soldiers in New Jersey.

In conversation with DeCicco, both men voiced concern that Castellano would designate his nephew, Thomas Gambino, acting boss and his driver, Thomas Bilotti, underboss in the event he was convicted and sent to prison.

Foremost among the cooperating witnesses was Salvatore " Sammy the Bull " Gravano, former underboss of the Gambino crime family, who became a cooperating witness in 1991.

His testimony was backed up by two other high-profile turncoat witnesses, former Lucchese family acting boss Alphonse " Little Al " D ' Arco and former Philadelphia crime family underboss Phil Leonetti.

While Lucky Luciano was the underboss in the Masseria Family, Gambino worked for him.

Block in Space, Time and Organized Crime, Dorothy Gallagher in All the Right Enemies, and Nunzio Pernicone in Carlo Tresca: Portrait of A Rebel all confirm that the most likely scenario is that Tresca was killed by Carmine Galante on the order of Frank Garofalo, underboss to Joseph Bonanno, Fascist sympathizer and close friend to Generoso Pope.

Genovese was soon conspiring with Carlo Gambino, Anastasia's underboss, to remove Anastasia.

The operating head of the Murder Inc. was Mangano family underboss Albert Anastasia, known as the " Lord High Executioner ".

Costello's bitter rival was Vito Genovese, a former underboss for Luciano.

At that time, future underboss Salvatore " Sammy the Bull " Gravano was allegedly elevated to caporegime.

One of Gotti's neighbors in Howard Beach was his dear friend Joseph Massino, underboss of the Bonanno crime family.

The underboss was traditionally the second most powerful position in the Gambino family ( after the boss ).

In 2002, Megale was named acting underboss after Peter Gotti went to prison.

At that time, Gambino was Anastasia's new underboss and Vito Genovese was the underboss for Costello.