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| 2010-08-24 |
| Edward Kean, primary writer of the "Howdy Doody Show" and who is credited with creating the exclamation, "Kowabunga!," has died at the age of 85. Kean also penned the theme song "It's Howdy Doody Time," to which millions of American children sang along each week during the show's run on NBC from 1947 to 1960. Kean died Aug. 13 at a nursing care facility in the Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield Township from complications of emphysema. During World War II, he served in the US Naval Reserve as a Lieutenant junior grade. In 1958, he became a stock broker. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |