From Deseret News archives:
Frisbee fans to honor Utah inventor of disc
Monroe man's idea has become national sensation
That distinctive upward curve is called the "Morrison slope" after the inventor of the Frisbee, Walter Frederick Morrison, who is alive and well and living in the central Utah town of Monroe.
"When I first heard about him here, I thought it was the biggest cock-and-bull story I ever heard," said Doug Smith, president of Utah Team Disc Golf, the local disc (or Frisbee) golf group.
Keep in mind that, for Frisbee enthusiasts, this guy is the equivalent of William Harley for motorcycle fans.
"Really?" said disc golf player Victor Staten, when told the news while flinging discs at the park Thursday. "He's coming here? The inventor of the Frisbee? Cool!"
"Isn't that the guy who got cremated and had his ashes (molded) in the shape of a Frisbee?" said his friend Nick Jones.
(Answer: No. Rumors of Morrison's death have been greatly exaggerated.)
Morrison has lived a long, colorful life. While flying a P-47 in Italy during World War II he was shot down and captured, spending the rest of the war in the Germans' infamous Stalag 13. After the war, while earning money as a building inspector in Los Angeles in 1948, he recalled the pie tins and paint can lids he threw around as a boy in Utah and set out to make a plastic version that would fly even better.
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