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While motoring to Boston, where he is working for his father's Colonial-Beacon Oil Co., Winthrop Rockefeller, fourth son of John Davison Rockefeller Jr., ran out of gasoline on a road near Hingham, Mass., had to be pushed. Off to Petersham, Mass, went Federal Judge John Munro Woolsey of New York with a copy of James Joyce's famed Ulysses, long barred from the U. S. as ''immoral and licentious." He will spend his vacation reading it, decide whether it may be published in a U. S. edition...
Professor C. T. Brues expects to spend some time making motion-pictures of insects at Petersham and Cambridge...
According to The Nature Magazine for July, 1927, "The Harvard Forest at Petersham is a perfect forest laboratory, the most interesting in the United States...
...unduly extravagent one is encouraged to believe from the number and quality of the visitors who resort to the forest," he continues. "During the present year the Forest has been shown to more than 150 men, most of them scientific or professional, who came to Petersham to study the demonstrations of forestry in practice or the methods of research. Among them were the chief of the U. S. Forest Service with a party of supervisors of Eastery national forests, the State Forester's Association, numbering 60 men from 20 states, the director of the Forest Experiment Station of Sweden, together...
...respect to physical equipment, the Forest has received from a number of landowners in Petersham a gift of a portable gasoline pumping engine with nearly a mile of hose. This will facilitate the control of possible forest fires and may prove helpful in the protection of our buildings