<P> "We worked fairs, demonstrating it," Morrison told the Virginian - Pilot . The two of them once overheard someone saying the pair were using wires to make the discs hover, so they developed a sales pitch: "The Flyin - Saucer is free, but the invisible wire is $1 ." "That's where we learned we could sell these things," he said, because people were enthusiastic about them . </P> <P> Morrison and Franscioni ended their partnership in early 1950, and in 1954 Morrison formed his own company, called American Trends, to buy and sell Flyin Saucers, which were by then being made of a flexible polypropylene plastic by Southern California Plastics, the original molder . After learning that he could produce his own disc more cheaply, in 1955 Morrison designed a new model, the Pluto Platter, the archetype of all modern flying discs . He sold the rights to Wham - O on January 23, 1957, and in 1958 Morrison was awarded U.S. Design Patent D183, 626 for his product . </P> <P> In June 1957, Wham - O co-founders Richard Knerr and Stan Lee decided to stimulate sales by giving the discs the additional brand name Frisbee (pronounced "friz' - bee"), after learning that Northeastern college students were calling the Pluto Platter by that name, the term "Frisbee" coming from the name of the Connecticut - based pie manufacturer, Frisbie Pie Company, which supplied pies to Yale University, where students started the campus craze by tossing empty pie tins stamped with the company's logo . "I thought the name was a horror . Terrible," Morrison told The Press - Enterprise of Riverside in 2007 . In 1982, Morrison told Forbes magazine that he had received about US $2 million in royalty payments and said: "I wouldn't change the name of it for the world ." </P> <P> The man behind the Frisbee's phenomenal success, however, was Edward "Steady Ed" Headrick (Pasadena, Cal., June 28, 1924--La Selva Beach, Cal., August 12, 2002), hired in 1964 as Wham - O's new general manager and vice president in charge of marketing . Headrick soon redesigned the Pluto Platter by reworking the mold, mainly to remove the names of the planets, but in the process, fortuitously increasing the rim thickness and mass, creating a more controllable disc that could be thrown more accurately . </P>

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