Hmmm — I guess this was an instance where I swiped the name “Dewlap” from Charles Preston, the long-time cartoon editor of The Wall Street Journal. He was fond of that name, for unknown reasons, and over the years it appeared many times in WSJ cartoons.
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OK, seriously: I’ve left phone messages for Charles as recently as last month asking what the deal was with “Dewlap.”
No answer!
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What can I say, Mike? Preston simply isn’t giving up his secrets so easily. Eli