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...opposite side of the chestnut stand is Dr. Abraham Arden Brill, great friend of Dr. Lewis and dean of the orthodox Freudian psychoanalysts. "I have analyzed many novelists and artists," said he last week, "and they have produced their greatest works after treatment...
...Brill gained notoriety last year as the host to several score undergraduates at a series of "Afternoons for Tannin Tipplers." Chief feature of the teas was a tirade against J. P. Marquand '14, who, as author of the best-selling novel, "Wickford Point," which intimately sketched "The Brills," a decadent New England family, was the arch-enemy of the Sophomore's parents and grand-parents...
...know he wasn't going to come back when he was reading the morning papers that day," declared a ward mate of Brill's, who has requested that his name be withheld. "He kept muttering 'He shouldn't be allowed in Boston,' after he had seen a notice that J. P. Marquand was to appear at the Book Fair of the Boston Herald-Traveler...
...blooded Brill, infuriated at the slur on his name and "family seat at the Point", often was sent into an uncontrollable rage. It was well known that he had vowed to get retribution the next time the "slanderer," as he put it, was in the vicinity. When interviewed recently he admitted that he had never read "Wickford Point." "Grandfather wouldn't permit it in the house," he snorted...
Marc H. Jaffe '42, Brill's roommate, said that several football players who had been prominent at the teas the year before were waiting for Brill in his rooms the afternoon he was paroled from Stillman. "He called us from the infirmary; he was going to need us 'for a little job'," one of them had told Jaffe...