Nora Frisbie (#3,799 in her own catalogue) was naturally biased in favor of her kinsfolk and proud of their energy, civic commitment and community spirit. "Frisbies have something unique," she wrote, not least among Americans their ability to trace a family line back to the early 17th century, and beyond that to England. She pointed out a high occurrence of twins in the family, noted that Frisbie characteristics include striking china-blue eyes, a streak of stubbornness, offbeat humor and a leaning toward civic duty, and reported that some 100 Frisbies had registered patents with the U.S. Patent Office.

Certainly Joseph P. (#3,793) fitted most of these elements of the family profile, and his inventions and determination helped boost output and sales of his pies. Under his leadership production rose from a couple of thousand pies to 200,000 a day in 1940, when he employed nearly 800 staff.

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The strange thing about Williams was that nobody had ever seen him. The faculty guidebook showed a gray box labeled NOT PICTURED; group photos in the Winchester yearbooks only showed Williams’s hand or arm, even though the captions advertised his presence. The college’s website gave a brief curriculum vitae but no photographic evidence. By that Monday afternoon, the first day of classes for the fall term at Winchester University, the search for Williams had, for some of his students, become almost compulsive. It was as if Williams were hiding himself from them, as if he were teasing them somehow. It had become a tradition at Winchester for students to find a picture of their professors before classes began; in this way, it was commonly believed, they could allay some of the anxiety when the man or woman strode into the room.

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