'Dum-de-do!'

PHOTO: MS-5400/235/001, HOCKEN COLLECTIONS UARE TAOKA O HAKENA
PHOTO: MS-5400/235/001, HOCKEN COLLECTIONS UARE TAOKA O HAKENA
Hudson’s Cookie Bear visiting Rarotonga in 1978.

Promoting biscuits for Cadbury Schweppes Hudson with the famous "Dum-de-do!" catchphrase, his Cookie Bear Club had over 150,000 members.

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