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
The Object Is Central), replacing the Jack Narz game "Seven Keys" in a scheduling shuffle. "Object" faced the same competition its predecessor did – the Ed McMahon-hosted "Missing Links" on NBC and local programming on CBS. While "Links" had a nearly four-month jump on "Object", local programming managed to cause both games to bow in defeat on March 27, 1964. The following Monday, however, showed there was a clear winner – "Missing Links", which moved to ABC with Clark as host (McMahon was still under contract to NBC). Nine months later, "Links" fell to the Peacock's replacement series – "Jeopardy!" Compared to most