The late '50s were a time when the Big Three turned out some of their most brilliant designs, especially when it came to their fullsize line offerings. Oldsmobile for one encompassed some of its ...

The chairman of Drum Corps International’s board of directors has resigned, just days after he came under scrutiny for employing a man who lost his teaching license in Florida because he sent sexually ...

Wham-O Inc. changed the name of the Pluto Platter to Frisbee 50 years ago Sunday, flinging a new word into the cultural ether that still conjures images of carefree fun in the park and breezy days at ...

Morrison’s Westhampton farmhouse isn’t as remote as his place in Monteverde, but it’s on a wildlife corridor. He’s seen otter there, and birds and butterflies galore. Those of us who aren’t looking ...

Jan. 23, 1957 The Frisbee was born 60 years ago this month. While people had been tossing discs long before that, the now-common plastic variety was invented in the 1950s by a former World War II ...

Frat-house frolics became a national obsession when Wham-O Manufacturing Co. of California began producing the Pluto Platter — soon renamed the Frisbee — on this day in history, Jan. 23, 1957. "The ...

One day in 1938, Fred Morrison and his girlfriend were on a Santa Monica beach, tossing a 5-cent cake pan taken from her mother’s kitchen. A stranger, fascinated by how the disc whirled through the ...

Third District Court of Appeal Justice Fred Morrison isn’t the type of judge to ambush an attorney with arch questions. He isn’t the type of jurist who is going to blaze new trails in his opinions. He ...

Fred Morrison, of Westhampton, pokes his head inside his life-size inflatable model of a fin whale at A.P.E. Gallery in Northampton in January 2019. Made of polyethylene plastic and polyethylene tape, ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Psychology Prof. Fred Morrison presented what he believes to be the predictors of success in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. With its aerodynamic attributes and colorful ...