Day packs accounted for half of JanSport’s sales in 1985, and by 2015 the company was reportedly selling 8 million backpacks a year. The oldest of three brothers, Murray John Pletz was born in ...

Murray McCory, who founded the outdoor equipment company JanSport while still in college and whose signature innovation, a lightweight backpack, revolutionized school life for millions of students ...

By Clay Risen Murray McCory, who founded the outdoor equipment company JanSport while still in college and whose signature innovation, a lightweight backpack ... for the first half of my life?

After the death of Murray McCory, a founder of the outdoors equipment company JanSport, readers recalled how their backpacks served ... worked for me for the first half of my life?” ...

In the late 1960s, Murray and his girlfriend Jan Lewis founded JanSport (see what they did there?), a local manufacturer of recreation equipment such as backpacks, tents and sleeping bags.

Take the school backpack, for example. Its invention can be traced to one man, Murray McCory, who died last month. McCory founded JanSport in ... frame backpack had, in half a generation, given ...

The Pint Room, a Dublin bar that boasted more than 100 beers on tap and a menu that included a burger topped with peanut butter and jelly, has closed. An employee at The Half Pint, a sister bar in ...

Like the company’s famous thermoses and water bottles (not to mention the viral Quencher), these pint glasses are double-insulated to keep your IPA and stout cold for the whole half (or quarter).

Compared to last year’s offering, the Mac Mini with M4 is nearly flawless. Apple reduced the size of the small form factor system by almost half, making it lighter than ever before. But the real ...

Earlier this month, Apple announced a new iPad mini for the first time in three years. Ahead of the device launching this Wednesday, we have outlined 12 new features and changes with the seventh ...