The Last Word on Dan Quayle?

Sad, but true: Deborah Werksman and Jeffrey Yoder are calling it quits on Quayle.

For almost four years, the Bridgeport, Conn., husband-and-wife team have capitalized on the quirks of the vice president by publishing the Quayle Quarterly, a journal whose satire was generously provided by its subject. Werksman and Yoder say they have mixed feelings about folding the first magazine to devote itself entirely to a Second Enchilada.

“It’s been exciting and fun,” Yoder said. “But what’s good for the satirist isn’t necessarily what’s good for the commonwealth.”

Right from the start, Yoder said, “we knew this product did have a limited life span.” J. Danforth Quayle could simply not go on forever, they realized--and certainly not as vice president.

Besides, Yoder said, “we never had it in our minds to follow him to the ends of the Earth.”

But just as Quayle has indicated that his political aspirations have by no means been snuffed by defeat, Werksman and Yoder are not about to bow out of publishing altogether.

Their next venture will be Hysteria, a funny feminist quarterly that Yoder describes as “Ms. magazine with a sense of humor.”