Walter Fredrick Morrison has died. He was 90 years old. If that name doesn't ring a bell, perhaps the toy he invented will. You see, Morrison invented the Frisbee.
Mr. Morrison didn't call it the Frisbee, though. He named it the "Pluto Platter" and dressed up in a home-made space suit to promote his creation. In 1957, he sold the rights to Wham-o, which renamed Morrison's creation the "Frisbee".
Over 200 million Frisbees have been sold. I think that number is low; every kid I've known in the last 50 years has owned one, and they are sold around the world.
Oh, yeah. One more thing. J.D. Salinger died a couple of weeks ago. Catcher In The Rye is one of the most overrated books ever written. If you ask me (and you didn't) I'd say Fred Morrison made a bigger contribution to the American experience than Salinger. So there.
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