FW: FW: FW: Calzone, Sausage Pizza (1947)

[Frank Abate]

Sorry, but it is "Wiffle".  See their website:

www.wiffle.com

Oh, and I forgot to mention Colt revolvers (Hartford).

Frank Abate

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Subject: Re: FW: FW: Calzone, Sausage Pizza (1947)


Tell me it's not so! I'm a wh/w distinguisher, and I always thought
it was Whiffleball.

dInIs



>On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Frank Abate wrote:
>
>>  Other famous products with a Connecticut connection include Wiffle Ball,
>>  invented and still made in Shelton, Silly Putty, invented by a CT
scientist,
>>  and the space suits used by NASA, developed and made near Hartford by
>>  Hamilton Sundstrand (formerly Hamilton Standard).
>
>Also, Gilbert's Erector sets and chemistry sets were made in Connecticut
>by Yale pole-vault Olympic gold-medalist A. C. Gilbert.
>
>Fred Shapiro
>
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