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With the onset of World War II and the promise of a whopping diversion of tourist business to Florida, Mr. Washburn last fall took a full-page ad in the New York Times, offered Hog Island to anyone with a tropical yearning and $150,000 to spare. The ad brought scores of queries, a few prospective buyers, including an Italian from Manhattan who wanted to found a new Roman Empire...
Year ago a shrewd, rich St. Petersburg, Fla. real-estate promoter named Clinton Mozley Washburn picked up a subtropical island for a figurative song. Three hundred acres of tangled mangrove, pine, palm and sandy beach, just off the Florida Gulf Coast 23 miles northwest of Tampa, the property (Hog Island to the natives; Caladesi to mapmakers) apparently wasn't worth much in the nude. Promoter Washburn, who holds a big backlog of Florida real estate (including some $250,000 worth of cheaply bought Gulf Coast property), saw possibilities in Hog Island...
Goals by Captain Pete Brown and Washburn set the Puppies off to a 2 to 0 lead in the first period, but early in the next to the second Yardling line put the Crimson back in the game when the George Hackett took Pop Jenk's pass, circled the Yale defense, and rammed the puck under Cord Meyer's pads. John Paine evened the count ten minutes later when he slapped Bill Ray's pass into the Eli nets form a scrimmage in front of the goal...
...Bradford Washburn '33, director of the New England Museum of Natural History and instructor at the Geographical Institute, was awarded the Franklin L. Burr prize of $1,000 for his aerial photography in Alaska...
THIS year's U.S. Camera has its quota of unaesthetic nudes, meaningless pattern designs, and pretty pictures, which constitute too large a part of the book; but after wading through it, there are several photographs which make it a worth-while volume--top honors going to Edward Steichen, Bradford Washburn, Martin Munkacsi, Dorothea Lange, and Edward Weston...