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...when he was just one year short of 35, he finally picked his career and went out to Minneapolis as secretary of Washburn Crosby Co. There he rose in a straight line to secretary-treasurer and company advertising head, to vice president and treasurer of General Mills which he helped put together in 1928, then managing director (1933) and president (1934). On the way up he showed a flair for commercial radio, started what is now the world's oldest continuous commercial broadcast (the 18-year-old Betty Crocker program...
...Philip Washburn Prize of $140, for the best Senior honors thesis in History, was won by Eugene L. Bondy '42, of New Rochelle, N. Y., for an essay "The Militia Problem in Massachusetts During...
Wheeler Smith '41, Straus A-11, prepared at Washburn High School. He was a member of the Lowell House Committee, was active in House sports, and made the Swimming Team. He intends to study...
HELEN PEAVY WASHBURN...
Only last summer Washburn sealed Mt. Bertha, precipitous Alaskan peak, accompanied by four undergraduates: Maynard M. Miller '43; Thomas Winship '42; Alvah Morrison '43; and Lee Wilson, '42. He is to speak on this trip and will illustrate his talk with colored slides and motion pictures. To conclude the program William H. Forbes '23 of the Fatigue Laboratory will discuss the effects of high altitude...