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On 12/31/69 7:00 PM,  wrote:
> Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com> wrote:
>> I just heard that on WCRB yesterday, as part of the complete
>> "Pictures at an Exhibition."  I wonder if it helps to change the
>> spelling to "Great Gate of Kyiv."
> 
> Or change Peking duck to Beijing duck?  Or the Bewitched character
> from Dr. Bombay to Dr. Mumbai?  Or the Hudson's Bay Company to the
> Hudson Bay Company?

in 1949 Bertolt Brecht changed "Lindbergh's Flight ("Der Lindberghflug") 
to "The Flight Across the Ocean" ("Der Oceanflug") and removed 
Linbergh's name from the lyrics.

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