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February 29 did not pass without casualties for Harvard students unwary enough to venture out of the Yard yesterday, as Radcliffe and Wellesley took advantage of their prerogatives to pounce upon Robert H. Davis '41 and R. Liewellyn Brill '42, chasing the one up a tree, and proposing to the other 47 times for a new intercollegiate record...
...Brill's record of 47 proposals received in one day breaks the former mark set 88 years ago by Nathaniel Abernathy Rinehart '54, who caused the first Yard riot by receiving 42 proposals of marriage from the students of the old Harvard Annex in front of the John Harvard statue in February...
...Brill's recently reconnected telephone rang incessantly all morning with pleas from ardent suitresses asking "Lewellyn darling" to tear himself away from his study of Elizabethan music for a few hours in the afternoon...
Finally consenting to go out to meet the more ardent of his admirers, Brill hitchhiked to his goal, wearing a borrowed buffalo-skin coat, only to find on his arrival that he was in the midst of the Wellesley branch of the Leap Year Club of Massachusetts Women's Colleges...
Lined up for her first at-homes were Civil Libertarian Roger Baldwin, 56, Novelist-Playwright Thornton Wilder, 42 (to elucidate James Joyce's Finnegans Wake). Next one will feature Psychiatrist Abraham Arden Brill, 65, who first titillated her old salon with Freud's teachings. The young people, suggests Mabel, seem somehow warier nowadays. Her main interests today are science, psychology, religion. Radicalism, believes Mabel, is "old hat." Still at Taos is Husband Tony. Explained Mabel: "He is coming for a visit in February, but he doesn't like New York. . . . He is an outdoors...