Word: pickmans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard bought 700 acres of the Estabrook Woods in Concord from a group of private owners, and an 30-acre tract from the estate of the late Edward M. Pickman '08, located in nearby Bedford. This property, added to the neighboring 2000-acre National Fish and Wildlife Refuge of the Concord River, will serve as a nature lab for studying geology, the effect of plant-eating fauna on vegetation, and methods to control animal population...
...former Nike missile site on the Pickman estate will be renovated and used as a field laboratory and living quarters...
...clear weather and plenty of gasoline to take them to Newport on their way to a Maine hunting lodge." The second of their five children was Ceezee- christened Lucy Douglas Cochrane. Cochrane died in 1928, and in 1930 Vivian married another rich, blue-blooded Boston bachelor. Attorney Dudley L. Pickman Jr. He moved the whole family into a big granite Stanford White mansion on Commonwealth Avenue, with 40 rooms (five servants), where Ceezee grew up and the Pickmans still live...
...standards of staid old Boston, Ceezee was a bumptious debutante. She and her one-year-older sister Nancy, another high-spirited and conspicuously pretty blonde, were always making news, and Mrs. Pickman was kept busy berating the newspapers for printing pictures of them. Both were avid rooters for the Bruins hockey team; they knew all the players' names, and it was even rumored that on occasion Ceezee varied her diet of Harvard boys to go out with some of the squad. "She was always very democratic," recalls a contemporary...
Without Clothes. Ceezee came by her high-spirited independence from her mother. Refusing to be intimidated by the Old Guard's instinctive distrust of a some time actress, Mrs. Pickman shook up Boston society by giving parties that stirred together Brahmins with Broadway, jazz musicians with longhairs such as Conductor Serge Koussevitzky of the Boston Symphony and Composer Igor Stravinsky. It would have been surprising if a pretty and independent girl like Ceezee had not set her sights beyond Back...