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Joan Anderson, Australian model who saw no profit from her vision for the hula hoop

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joan Anderson: she took the craze of bamboo hoops from Australia to America but she and her husband were misled over the Hula ...
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Joan Anderson, who brought the hula hoop to the world, dies at age 101

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reveler uses a hula hoop to corral a shark marching in the Mardi Gras Parade in St. Louis in 2019. Wham-O patented the hula hoop ...
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Joan Anderson, who brought the hula hoop to the U.S. and named it, dies at 101

Courtesy Chris Riess and Amy Hill. Joan Anderson, the woman who introduced the hula hoop to the United States and gave it its iconic name, died last month at age 101. Anderson’s daughter, Loralyn ...
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Joan Anderson, who brought the hula hoop to the world, dies at age 101

July 29 (UPI) --Joan Anderson, a largely unknown Australian woman who spent decades unacknowledged for introducing the world to the now-iconic hula hoop, has died. Anderson, who moved to the United ...