Turing's biographer says that after the change, Travis " presided over an administrative revolution " reconciling the management structure to the production process.

Sullivan's scholarship was extended to a second year, and in 1858 in what the biographer Arthur Jacobs calls an " extraordinary gesture of confidence " the scholarship committee extended his grant for a third year so that he could study in Germany, at the Leipzig Conservatoire.

According to his first biographer, Eric Jacobs, the hand of sovietologist and scholar Robert Conquest is betrayed in Amis ’ s precise dissertation upon the genesis and changing nomenclatures of SMERSH, the employer of the villains of the early novels.

The armistice, concluded despite opposition from Secretary Dulles, South Korean President Syngman Rhee, and also within Eisenhower's party, has been described by biographer Ambrose as the greatest achievement of the administration ; Eisenhower had the insight to realize that unlimited war in the nuclear age was unthinkable, and limited war unwinnable.

The biographer Aurelius Victor also reports that Gallienus forbade senators from becoming military commanders.

Taking a great interest in indigenous religious beliefs, he also told his first biographer that he had attended Dusun séances or healing rituals.

It also featured a note hit by Orbison in falsetto that showcased a powerful voice which, according to biographer Clayson, " came not from his throat but deeper within ".

One biographer describes his early dance band infiltration: " He managed to croon like Bing Crosby and win a competition: he also played drums, guitar and trumpet, in which he was entirely self taught ".

Historian and biographer Edmund King, whilst painting a slightly more positive picture than Davis, also concludes that Stephen, while a stoic, pious and genial leader, was also rarely, if ever, his own man, usually relying upon stronger characters such as his brother or wife.

Some historians have also conjectured that Alexander crucified Callisthenes, his official historian and biographer, for objecting to Alexander's adoption of the Persian ceremony of royal adoration.

Authorized biographer Jeremy Wilson noted that the film has " undoubtedly influenced the perceptions of some subsequent biographers " such as the depiction of the film's Ali as the real Sherif Ali, rather than a composite character, and also the highlighting of the Deraa incident.

Halley's apparition of 1456 was also witnessed in Kashmir and depicted in great detail by Śrīvara, a Sanskrit poet and biographer to the Sultans of Kashmir.

At the time, Foucault engaged in homosexual activity with men whom he encountered in the underground Parisian gay scene, also indulging in drug use ; according to biographer James Miller, he particularly enjoyed the thrill and sense of danger that these activities offered him.

A Saint Cyprian, disciple and biographer of St. Cæsarius of Arles, is also mentioned as a Bishop of Toulon.

Johnson's biographer concludes, " The mission was a temporary exposure to danger calculated to satisfy Johnson's personal and political wishes, but it also represented a genuine effort on his part, however misplaced, to improve the lot of America's fighting men.

" He was also artistically inclined, " drawing with a happy vengeance " according to a biographer.

This system of achieving rotary motion was patented in his own name by James Watt in October 1781 although Samuel Smiles, biographer of Boulton and Watt, attributes this to Murdoch and there also exists a drawing of the sun and planet system in Murdoch's hand dated August 1781.

He also worked at the Edmonton Journal for one summer, where he met his future biographer, David L. Humphreys.

It is also arguable, says one biographer, that she was bipolar.

Having left the conservatoire, Offenbach was free from the stern academicism of Cherubini's curriculum, but as the biographer James Harding writes, " he was free, also, to starve.

He also told biographer George Beahm that the girl later " married a man who was as odd as her, had kids, and eventually killed herself.

The children of Paganus Ruet ( argued by modern-day genealogist Lindsay Brook and followed by biographer Alison Weir as " probably christened as Gilles ") included Katherine, her sister Philippa, a son, Walter, and the eldest sister, Isabel ( also called Elizabeth ) de Roet ( Canoness of the convent of St. Waudru's, Mons, c. 1366 ).

He is also known for his columns and blogs, and for his work as a historian and biographer of the comics industry, in particular his award-winning Jack Kirby biography, Kirby: King of Comics.

Back in Wyoming, gunfighter English Bob ( Richard Harris ) and his biographer, W. W. Beauchamp ( Saul Rubinek ), arrive in Big Whiskey, also seeking the reward.

Growing up, as a child, Gaye's main influence was that of his minister father, something he would later acknowledge to biographer David Ritz and also in interviews he gave, often mentioning that his father's sermons left a big impression on him.

The British Comedy Society arranged the unveiling in conjunction with Worth's biographer, Roy Baines, and the event was sponsored by Revelation Films, who also released a DVD of his work the same week.

He was asked to leave Northampton in July 1767 by the authorities ; while no official reason is known, biographer Michael Bellesiles suggests that religious differences and Allen's tendency to be disruptive may have played a role in his departure.

Henry's biographer C. Warren Hollister suggests the possibility that the saintly ascetic Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, was in part responsible for Henry's education ; Henry was consistently in the bishop's company during his formative years, ca 1080 – 86.

Konoe's biographer suggests that his subject was shocked by how little control he had over the military, and at how factional the military itself was.

The recent biographer Olivier Todd, who published a book on Malraux in 2005, suggests that he had Tourette's syndrome, although that has not been confirmed.

As a contemporary biographer of John Brown put it: " If, as Alfred Kazin suggests, without John Brown there would have been no Civil War, we would add that without the Concord Transcendentalists, John Brown would have had little cultural impact.

Edward's biographer Philip Magnus suggests that Gladstone may have become a whipping-boy for the King's general irritation with the Liberal government.

One biographer suggests he was " the greatest intelligence gatherer Washington has ever known ", discovering exactly where every Senator stood, his philosophy and prejudices, his strengths and weaknesses, and what it took to break him.

Wilhelm Canaris biographer Heinz Höhne suggests that Canaris and Himmler were working together to bring about a change of regime, but all of this remains speculation.

The sober alternative is provided by Sandwich's biographer, N. A. M. Rodger, who suggests Sandwich's commitments to the navy, to politics and the arts mean the first sandwich was more likely to have been consumed at his desk.

The sober alternative is provided by Sandwich's biographer, N. A. M. Rodger, who suggests Sandwich's commitments to the navy, to politics and the arts mean the first sandwich was more likely to have been consumed at his desk.

Pugin's biographer, Rosemary Hill, suggests that, in the last year of his life, he was suffering from hyperthyroidism which would account for his symptoms of exaggerated appetite, perspiration, and restlessness.

Lucius ' biographer suggests ulterior motives: to restrain Lucius ' debaucheries, to make him thrifty, to reform his morals by the terror of war, to realize that he was an emperor.

Although one biographer writes that " it is difficult to say how far the relationship went " evidence from her letters suggests that they may have become lovers in 1887 and may have engaged in some form of sado-masochism, a claim echoed by A. N. Wilson.

Rachmaninoff biographer Barrie Martyn suggests that it might not have been by chance that the two pieces Rachmaninoff singled out for praise from Rubinstein's concerts — Beethoven's Appassionata and Chopin's " Funeral March " Sonata — both became cornerstones of Rachmaninoff's own recital programs.

McKinley biographer H. Wayne Morgan suggests that the two men may have met as early as 1871, although initially without making much impression on each other.

Although it has long been supposed that nothing is recorded of Jane's appearance ( and there is no surviving portrait that can be identified as her ), her biographer Julia Fox ( Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford ) suggests that there is a very remote chance that a Holbein likeness represents an extant likeness of Jane ( pp. 317 – 319 ).

George's earliest biographer suggests that George may have spent time in France as a child when his father was on embassy from January 1519, and suggests this as a reason how George could speak such perfect French from a young age and as an explanation as to how Anne and George remained so close during their formative years.

Linda Hamalian, his biographer, suggests that, " translating the work of women poets from China and Japan reveals a transformation of both heart and mind ".

" In truth ," Tchaikovsky biographer Anthony Holden suggests, " Antonina was as much the right woman for Tchaikovsky as any other.

His biographer Lee Hill suggests that Southern was, at worst, a functioning alcoholic and that his image was largely based on his occasional public appearances in New York, partying and socialising.

Henry I's biographer C. Warren Hollister suggests the possibility that Osmund was in part responsible for Henry's education ; Henry was consistently in the bishop's company during his formative years, around 1080 to 1086.

Furthermore, the conductor Boyd Neel was ill for one of the three sessions, and Finzi had to take over: his biographer, Diana McVeagh, suggests it may have been for the " Rhapsody ", which was recorded on a particularly cold day-the coldest day in 50 years-and Joan Cross admitted afterwards, " I don't think I did justice to that piece, alas!

Pärt's biographer, Paul Hillier, suggests that " how we live depends on our relationship with death: how we make music depends on our relationship to silence.