The reaction to the character Howdy Doody was big enough to justify making a marionette for television. Frank Paris, whose puppets appeared on Puppet Playhouse, was asked to make the Howdy Doody ...

NBC’s “Howdy Doody,” a lop-legged, mop-wigged puppet with a Snerdish grin, is the children’s special delight.* Having recently decided to run for President, Howdy adds a new “thingumajig ...

What to make of a man who admits that Howdy Doody was the first friend he ever had and who devoted some of his final years in professional wrestling, wrestling women for amusement? The man was ...