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NATION, Page 49American NotesANNIVERSARIESFrisbee's 50th -- Or Is It?
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.
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."