Word: washburn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reading "Denali Strikes Back" [Aug. 11], I was amazed that Bradford Washburn blamed "serious tactical blunders" for the mountaineering disaster. This statement seems to indicate that the expedition made some mistakes that most mountaineers would routinely avoid and that these errors were largely responsible for the tragedy. In talking with Mr. Washburn, I find that he had only sketchy information and did not at first understand why the expedition split into two groups. He certainly did not mean to imply that the tactics were responsible for the tragedy...
...dogsled explorers, remained spry enough in his 70s to earn a rear admiral's stripes locating airfield sites for the Navy in Greenland. Now 92 and living in peppery retirement in Provincetown, Mass., Old Mac bestirred himself to Boston last week, where he accepted the $5,000 Washburn Award from the Museum of Science as "the last and gallant survivor of America's most thrilling era of terrestrial geographic discovery...
Blaming serious tactical blunders and "fiendish" weather for what he calls U.S. mountaineering's worst disaster, Expert Alpinist Bradford Washburn added: "It's amazing more people haven't been killed on McKinley when you consider 400 are killed in the Alps every summer...
Explorer Telescopes. The arrangement is equally agreeable for Minneapolis-based General Mills, which has always shown plenty of zeal in pushing Wheaties. No sooner did the cereal come into being in 1924 than the Washburn Crosby Co., General Mills's onetime parent company, bought into a local radio station, used it to advertise its new product. The cereal was promoted by one of radio's first singing commercials ("Have you tried Wheaties?"), a pioneer coast-to-coast radio serial ("Skippy") and some of the earliest premium offers for kids anxious to be the first on their blocks with...
...Washburn's second freshman boat recorded an easy win over the Northeastern third varsity and a graduate crew from M.I.T. earlier in the afternoon...