The first televised appeal took place in 1955 and was called the Children's Hour Christmas Appeal. Pudsey Bear appeared in 1985 ... bears in particular: the original, and a more recent example ...

The cartoon’s significance ... 60th anniversary of the teddy bear, the Michtoms gifted Kermit Roosevelt Jr., the grandson of the late former president, one of the original bears for his children.

Guide Holt Collier, of Greenville, lassoed a bear. The people in Roosevelt’s entourage ... The Teddy Bears are still being ...