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JUBILEE COMMITTEE SHOWERS YARD WITH PERFUMED NOTES

Advertising Stunt Marks Beginning of Publicity Campaign For Freshman's Big Annual Moment This Late Spring

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"That Woman" startled Yardlings from their post-exam comas with perfumed little notes gaily accepting invitations to the Freshman Jubilee on May 23.

The entire myth was the brain-child of the '44 Jubilee Committee, attempting to remind its classmates to invite their home-town girl to the big Freshman weekend during the spring vacation. Designed and penned by Edward Mahoney '44, already famous for his Petty-like posters displayed for past. Freshman affairs, the letters coyly answered an imagined invitation to the Jubilee.

After spraying the notes with F. W. Woolworth's elegant "Eau de Harvard Square," the committee distributed them throughout the Yard last night. Having set the Jubilee date at May 23, the committee will reopen their publicity campaign after vacation with the announcement of the band for the affair. At the moment several prominent orchestras are being considered but no decision has been reached.

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