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Kate Smith Show "and as part of the nationwide" Howdy Doody "television show from 1953-55.
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Howdy Doody and Buffalo Bob: “Don't move, kids—we'll be right back after this message from—HEY, I SAID DON'T MOVE!”
Can Bone-Munching Zombie Worms Help Fight Childhood Obesity? Con Chapman 2011
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In 1948, John Meyers and Tibor de Nagy, stirred by their love of puppets and the commercial success of Howdy Doody, started the Tibor Nagy Marionette Company.
Going From the Abstract to the Sort-Of Concrete Lance Esplund 2011
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The power of advertising was such that a boy who watched enough Howdy Doody or Captain Midnight would develop a craving for confections which, if described to him without the aid of seductive black-and-white imagery, he would reject out of hand as no more appealing than brussels sprouts.
Can Bone-Munching Zombie Worms Help Fight Childhood Obesity? Con Chapman 2011
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Go past the yards, the touchdowns and the Howdy Doody smile and the Giants quarterback proved on a sodden Candlestick Park field Sunday he is one of the game's best.
The Patriots Don't Have Eli Aditi Kinkhabwala 2012
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“Ah—there you are!” she says sweeping across the room the way Loretta Young used to do every afternoon before The Mickey Mouse Club and Howdy Doody came on.
Undine Spragg, International Cocktail Bitch Con Chapman 2012
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Fields, and even Howdy Doody staged mock presidential campaigns.
Michael Winship: Restore Sanity: A Report from Waaaay in the Back Michael Winship 2010
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I'm sorry this situation has finally been addressed and that Howdy Doody and Buffalo Bob are at last members of the TV Crossover Hall of Fame.
TVXOHOF, 03/2010: HOWDY DOODY & BUFFALO BOB Toby O'B 2010
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In the South Bronx in 1961, every man and boy walked the streets looking like Howdy Doody.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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In the South Bronx in 1961, every man and boy walked the streets looking like Howdy Doody.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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