Joan Anderson, who has died aged 101, was for 60 years an inventor manqué; she took the hula hoop from Australia to America in the 1950s, but did not gain just recognition for it until she was 94.

Joan Anderson, who coined the name for the hula hoop and played an unsung role in its rise, has died age 101. The former model was visiting her native Australia from her home in the US when she ...

As befitted a former model, when she finally stepped into the limelight, Joan Anderson did so in style, leaving her retirement home in California to jet into New York for the premiere of a film about ...

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.

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