Chicago entrepreneur Donald F. Duncan bought the rights to the word "yo-yo" and joined forces with newspaper titan William Randolph Hearst to get newsboys pushing the toy.
As I approach this time of year when the brisk mornings of autumn announce that fall and oceans of color are around the corner, I think of those days when we returned after summer vacation to elementary school. I was tired of summer and yes, I looked forw
June 6 is National Yo-yo Day. It’s called that because it’s the birthday of a man named Donald F. Duncan Sr. (Sr. stands for Senior.) More about him in a bit.In the early 1960s, yo-yos were one of the hottest-selling toys in America. How many were sold? In 1962 in the United States, there were […]