If you're interested in pursuing Sooty, there's a grad student who's taken it
as a screen name & whose home page includes an explanation of the
puppet-character. This URL is for her fashion site, but it links to her home
page as well:
 
<http://www.sils.umich.edu/~sooty/fashion.html>
 
Laura Stempel Mumford
 
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