SHOREWOOD, Wisc., — For Mathew Gruber, it's a window to the past, when television was young and a freckle-faced puppet named Howdy Doody was the star of the biggest children's program around. Gruber ...

N E W   H A V E N, Conn. Jan. 26 -- Hey, kids! Howdy Doody is headed forDetroit! The original freckle-faced marionette belongs to the DetroitInstitute of Arts, a federal judge said in a ruling ...

The puppet of 1950s TV fame is caught in a legal dispute between a museum and the family of its creator. Howdy Doody, the freckle-faced puppet that entertained millions of American children in the ...

Edward Kean, headwriter of the “Howdy Doody Show” and who is credited with creating the exclamation, “kowabunga,” died Aug. 13 in West Bloomfield Township, Mich., of complications of emphysema, family ...

Barring further legal action Howdy Doody may soon be freed from his confinement in a Rhode Island bank vault and brought out in a grand unveiling at the Detroit Institute of Arts. After a two-year ...

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