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  2. Howdy - Wikipedia

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    Howdy is an informal salutation in the English language often used in the Southern United States. [1] Originally a shortened form of the inquiry How do ye? , it was first used in Southern England in the 18th century.

  3. Howdy Doody - Wikipedia

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    Howdy Doody is an American children's television program (with circus and Western frontier themes) that was created and produced by Victor F. Campbell [1] and E. Roger Muir. [2] It was broadcast on the NBC television network in the United States from December 27, 1947, until September 24, 1960. It was a pioneer of children's programming and set ...

  4. Peanut gallery - Wikipedia

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    The racial element of the term's origin is disputed, however, and absent from the Oxford English Dictionary and others. [3] [4] In 1943 the Howdy Doody children's radio show adopted the name for its live audience of children. [5]

  5. Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay - Wikipedia

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    Contemporary Bromo-Seltzer advertisement in which Lottie Collins dances and sings "Ta-Ra-Ra Boom-de-ay!" "Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay" is a vaudeville and music hall song first performed by the 1880s.

  6. 7 Up - Wikipedia

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    7 Up was created by Charles Leiper Grigg, who launched his St. Louis–based company The Howdy Corporation in 1920. [2] Grigg came up with the formula for a lemon-lime soft drink in 1929, and the product was launched two weeks before the Wall Street Crash of 1929 .

  7. Edward Kean - Wikipedia

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    Edward George Kean (October 28, 1924 – August 13, 2010) was an American television pioneer and writer who helped create The Howdy Doody Show and wrote over 2,000 episodes of the program. Early years

  8. Buffalo Bob Smith - Wikipedia

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    Smith was born in Buffalo, New York, as Robert Emil Schmidt.He attended Masten Park High School.. Schmidt got his start in radio in Buffalo at WGR (AM), though he switched from WGR to WBEN's late morning radio slot in 1943 as part of a move which brought Clint Buehlman's popular early morning show from WGR to WBEN at the same time.

  9. Alfred E. Neuman - Wikipedia

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    Neuman on Mad 30, published December 1956. Alfred E. Neuman is the fictitious mascot and cover boy of the American humor magazine Mad.The character's distinct smiling face, gap-toothed smile, freckles, red hair, protruding ears, and scrawny body date back to late 19th-century advertisements for painless dentistry, also the origin of his "What, me worry?"