What city has two names twice?

[Jonathan Lighter]

D'oh !  Forgot Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Victorian editor of Admiral Nelson's letters.

  JL

Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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At 11:52 PM -0400 11/1/06, Alison Murie wrote:
> >William B's B was for Breitbart, his real last name. In his day Breitbart
>>was probably too "ethnic" for radio...
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>>> Poster: Laurence Horn
>>> Subject: Re: What city has two names twice?
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>>>>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.
>AM

Hueffer or something like it. Was that a WWI-inspired shift, like
"liberty cabbage" for "sauerkraut"?

LH

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