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Your Puppet Pals
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Merrillyn (Mrs. Robert) Wegner is shown standing behind a set from "Your Puppet Pals" which includes 3 puppets: Professor Bookworm, Dingle the Clown, and Fuzzywig. "Your Puppet Pals" was a weekly show on WKOW-TV. Merrillyn was known in later life as Lynn Hartridge.
January 18, 1954
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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