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- NATION, Page 49American NotesANNIVERSARIESFrisbee's 50th -- Or Is It?
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- At Vermont's Middlebury College, they swear it started this
- way. Back in 1939, five Middlebury undergrads suffered a flat
- while driving through Nebraska. As two boys wrestled with the
- tire, a third found a discarded pie tin from the Frisbie Pie Co.
- near a cornfield. Above his head a lightbulb went on. He threw
- the pie tin into the air and yelled, "Frisbie!" History was
- made.
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- Well, maybe. There are quite a few people around the
- country who claim to have invented the aerobatic platter. But
- the legend is so treasured at Middlebury that last week, while
- observing Frisbee's 50th anniversary, the college unveiled a
- bronze statue of a dog jumping to catch . . . a Frisbee. Says
- Middlebury President Olin Robison: "Our version of the story is
- that it happened all over America, but it started here."
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