Walter Frederick Morrison disc more cheaply. In 1955, he and Lu designed the Pluto Platter, the archetype of all modern flying discs. On January 23, 1957, they sold the rights for the Pluto Platter to the Wham-O toy company. Initially Wham-O continued to market the toy solely as the "Pluto Platter", but by June 1957 they also began using the name "Frisbee" after learning that college students in the Northeast were calling the Pluto Platter by that name. Morrison also invented several other products for Wham-O, but none were as successful as the Pluto Platter. Morrison and his wife, Lu Nay Morrison had
Pluto Rising Pluto Rising Pluto Rising is a 1999 novel by Karen Irving (). The novel is the first in a series of mystery novels about Katy Klein, a psychologist who has become a professional astrologer and is struggling financially to support her teenaged daughter. She is drawn into a world of terror by Adam, a mysterious individual who believes she can help him resolve the partly forgotten nightmares of his childhood. It was nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel by the Crime Writers of Canada. The film rights to the series have been optioned by a Canadian