Passing: Richard Knerr, Craze Creator from Hula Hoop to Superball (NY Times)
From The New York Times:
January 18, 2008
Richard Knerr, who gave the company he and a friend started in a garage the altogether appropriate name Wham-O, then marketed products that for two decades virtually defined frivolity in postwar America, from the Hula Hoop to the Frisbee to the SuperBall, died on Monday at his home in Arcadia, Calif. He was 82.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/business/18knerr.html?_r=1&scp=5&sq=wham-o&st=nyt&oref=slogin
January 18, 2008
Richard Knerr, who gave the company he and a friend started in a garage the altogether appropriate name Wham-O, then marketed products that for two decades virtually defined frivolity in postwar America, from the Hula Hoop to the Frisbee to the SuperBall, died on Monday at his home in Arcadia, Calif. He was 82.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/business/18knerr.html?_r=1&scp=5&sq=wham-o&st=nyt&oref=slogin
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