Did Hoody Doody have 49 freckles equal to the number of US states at that time?
It’s Howdy Doody.
If it were true, it would’ve been 48, 49, or 50. The US only had 49 states for less than one year.
He originally had 48, one for each state, according to http://www.globegazette.com/news/2000/052000/week2/09/Dt1.shtml