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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...
...this actually wouldn't have happened. [...]She was persevering, generous, warm and caring." While the Law School made appointments in the past decade that strengthened the faculty in corporate and business law, it has recently added more scholars in the fields of constitutional and administrative law, according to Professor Richard H. Fallon, a constitutional scholar. "As I look at the rising generation of young scholars, we’ve been extraordinarily successful in getting the best of the generation," said Fallon, who serves on the appointments committee. "We make lots of good appointments at the Law School, [but] this...
Christopher Walken and Charlize Theron were announced as the Hasty Pudding Theatricals' Man and Woman of the Year Thursday, joining Hollywood luminaries like Scarlett Johansson and Richard Gere, Katharine Hepburn and Mel Gibson—though not Paris Hilton...
...Airlines, the country's fourth largest airline by revenue. But by freezing out Singapore Airlines, CAAC officials signaled that they have decided to close ranks around their domestic carriers - potentially shutting off the fast-growing China market to foreign carriers eager to expand their connections to the mainland. Says Richard Pinkham, an analyst at the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation, a Singapore-based consultancy: "The regulators had clearly decided to go a different direction than the one the [Singapore] deal offered...
...nationalization, the U.K. government on Monday hatched plans to convert into bonds the $50 billion Bank of England loan it used to prop up Northern Rock. That makes a private sale of the bank more likely: those interested in bidding before the February deadline - including a consortium led by Richard Branson's Virgin Group - will no longer need to front up for a big slice of that loan. The bank's battered shares climbed more than 40% on the news...