Watching _Blue Moon_ and am very confused as to why Lorenz Hart keeps referring to E.B. White as 'Andy'
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"E.B. stands for Elwyn Brooks, but once he started university at Cornell, he began going by Andy. The first president of Cornell University was named Andrew White, so there was a tradition at the school that all students who also had the last name White got the nickname Andy"
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