Fifty years ago, when I was living on Cape Cod, there was a journalist named Gaddis,
who had a column in local newspaper "Gaddabout Gaddis".

I'll be doubledipped in doggie doo-doo,I found a URL about him! Must be someone else,
the original would be older than Methuselah!
http://www.labguysworld.com/bayhorse.htm