Posts Tagged ‘HOWARD MILSTEIN’

Cheap Seats Daily: Frisbee Inventor Dies, Local Ultimate Club Moves Indoors

Walter Morrison, 90, the man most often credited with inventing the Frisbee, has died. Morrison, lately of Monroe, Utah, marketed the disc we all grew to know and love as the Pluto Platter in the 1950s, before selling it to toy giant Wham-O, which changed the name to Frisbee and launched an international fad.
Just as [...]

Cheap Seats Daily: The World’s Greatest Beer Man, Milstein Resurfaces, Ficker Running Again

Fortune magazine has named some folks who might try to get control of the New York Times from the Sulzberger family.
The piece has some likely suspects — David Geffen and Google, among them.
But the most intriguing and, for us locals, scariest of the alleged Times takeoverers?
Howard Milstein.
Yes, THAT Howard Milstein.
The Howard Milstein who a [...]