What city has two names twice?
Alison Murie
sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM
Thu Nov 2 03:52:05 UTC 2006
>William B's B was for Breitbart, his real last name. In his day Breitbart
>was probably too "ethnic" for radio...
>> Poster: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>> Subject: Re: What city has two names twice?
>>>Then there was the afternoon dj on WNEW in NY ... William B. Williams: he
>>>always claimed that his middle name was Bill!
>>
>> no relation to Wm Carlos Wms. Maybe there's something about William(s).
>>
>> L
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And Ford Maddox Ford........whose real last name was something else which I
have forgotten.
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