Bob and Ray mystery solved!

 I spent months trying to find out why Bob Elliott's character Tex Blaisdell had the same name as the cartoonist Tex Blaisdell. I emailed people who worked in Blaisdell's studio overlooking Carnegie Hall. I asked OTR experts. I spoke on phone with Blaisdell's daughter. No one knew. I finally asked Bob Elliott, and here's his response.

"Tex" was based on a public relations man for the rodeo who visited our show every year when it came to Boston. Last name borrowed from elevator man in the WHDH building. Name was not stolen from the cartoonist, just a simple coincidence.

                -- Bob Elliott