Fadoozle?

[Laurence Horn]

At 5:45 PM -0500 3/7/02, Clark Whelton wrote:
>  >From a high school classmate (1956) in Connecticut.
>
>"I remember when a car with one headlight approached us, it was
>called a Fadoozle and everybody got kissed.  I thought my boyfriend
>started it."
>

John J. Fadoozle was the America's #1 Private Eye, as featured on
Howdy Doody, airing regularly on CBS around that time.  I think the
boyfriend must have blended Inspector Fadoozle with the already
well-established padiddle tradition.  Or he just wanted a kiss.

larry