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...started all the current whoopee in hoops are Toymakers Arthur Melin and Richard Knerr, 33-year-old owners of the Wham-O Manufacturing Co. of San Gabriel. Calif. Last March, while attending a New York toy fair, they got a tip from an acquaintance on a wooden hoop popular in Australia. Melin and Knerr turned out a score of wooden hoops, did not like them, started experimenting in plastics. In May they made some 3-ft. hoops out of brightly colored polyethylene tubing. Melin field-tested them on some neighborhood children-and a national fad started. From children...
...Melin and Knerr, the hoop is the biggest thing yet. Eleven years ago they opened a shop with less than $1,000 cash and plans to make slingshots. Since then they have added three dozen other toys and gadgets to their production, now employ 670. Last year they hit their first jackpot with a lightweight plastic platter, the "frisbee." They have already sold about 2,000,000 Hula Hoops (93? wholesale, a 16% gross profit), hope to sell millions more before the craze dies...
...Marshall Melin, heading a moonwatch team atop to Harvard Observatory, said several persons there thought they saw the satellite but Melin did not feel they were reliable sightings...
Under close examination, the reporting of the Stockholm papers proved to bear just about as much relation to reality as a Mickey Spillane novel. The Swedish Foreign Office at midweek denied that any Swedes had been manhandled. The city hall incident fell apart when Officer Hans Melin, a Swedish policeman assigned to Margaret's party during her visit, testified that the U.S. Secret Service men had not brandished a pistol and had not forbidden anyone to enter. Said Melin: "The American police officer was not armed on the occasion. I myself...
Melvin Kranzberg 1G, of University City, Mo.; Waryne L. Lees 2G, of Washington, D. C.; Robert H. Llewellyn, of Carlisle, Pa., Dickinson '39; Edward A. G. Luxton, of Montreal, Canada; Marshall Melin, of Chicago, Ill., now teaching at University of Chicago; Charles Meyer, of St. Louis, Mo., now graduate student at Washington University; Franklin B. Newman, of West Chester Pa., University of Pennsylvania '39; Charles E. Passage 2G, of Dansville, N. Y.; Gardner Patterson, now teaching at University of Michigan...