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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...
...best freshman crew in the history of rowing at Princeton" -- as described by Princeton coaches--lost to Ted Washburn's impressive first boat by five lengths. Harvard took an early lead and kept putting more water between itself and the Tigers...
Freshman coach Ted Washburn, who speaks the highest praises of his boat after last week's sterling performance against Northeastern, is not exactly worried about the Scarlet Knights, but he says "their time of 8:54 makes it obvious it will be a close race...