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...They became best friends as teenagers, and when it came time to get a job, they didn't want to work for their dads. So in 1948, Richard Knerr and Arthur Melin founded Wham-O, named for the sound made by their first product, a slingshot. The pair (above, with Knerr at right) produced such iconic American toys turned fads as Silly String, the SuperBall, the hula hoop (25 million sold in four months) and the Frisbee. They created the last after they spotted an Air Force pilot flying his "Pluto Platter" on the beach and bought the rights...
...It’s free?” asks a student, hovering at the register. “You’re all right,” replies Dorothy E. “Dottie” Melin, supervisor at the café in the Barker Center rotunda. “A lot of them aren’t too sure—they think they’re stealing the coffee,” she explains. As humanities concentrators have known for ages, you can get free Starbucks every weekday morning in the Barker Center (what—you?...
DIED. ARTHUR MELIN, 77, entrepreneurial co-founder of Wham-O, the toy giant that brought baby boomers the Hula Hoop, the Frisbee and the SuperBall; of Alzheimer's disease; in Costa Mesa, Calif. After a friend showed Melin and his partner a rattan hoop popular in Australia, Wham-O introduced a plastic version in 1958. Mania over the Hula Hoop was ferocious but short lived; it cost Wham-O, which at one point made 20,000 a day, $10,000 in losses that year...
...appearances--though the 90-person entourage she brought with her probably made things easier, as did the white muslin and white lilies she requested for her dressing room, to go along with the white sofas she brought over. At the tour's first stop in Stockholm, autograph seeker Jennifer Melin, 15, gushed, "She is an incredible example for us. She says smart things!" Take that, Taliban...
...feet. Domestic Treaty. In real life, Sacher-Masoch lived out the imaginings of his books. The model for Wanda was one Fanny Pistor Bogdanoff, a strapping lady with whom he spent six tawdry months in Venice. With his first wife, an aspiring writer named Aurora Rümelin, whom he preferred to call "Wanda," he worked out a bizarre set of domestic arrangements. After they married, his job around the house would be to wait on her hand and foot. His royalty checks were earmarked for furs and fine whips. For her part, Wanda was expected to chastise him regularly...