One of Harvard's pet comic-strip heroines is that ravishing blonde, Burma, of "Terry and the Pirates." Not long ago, if you recall, she developed a violent crush on Pat, the swarthy hero of the strip--who showed a stubborn disinterest in all her advances.

So four Seniors from Winthrop House took one Sunday morning off to write the creator of the strip, protesting against Pat's immunity to the bewitching Burma. "We are beginning to doubt his virility," they wrote. "We want action!" They signed the letter "The Winthrop House Burma Club," mailed it, and forgot all about it.

Great was their surprise, therefore, when an envelope arrived last Saturday addressed to the "Winthrop House Burma Club" with a personal letter from the artist himself, in which he explained the non-inflammability of his hero as follows:

Love Is So Difficult

"All the great lovers of history met with difficulty. Romeo, who wooed so swiftly, found death so soon. Tristan, who wooed unwisely, found death unmerciful. Juliet could not live without Romeo, and Isolde swooned upon the corpse of Tristan and breathed her last. And Launcelot swooned (Ye Gods, how they swooned!) when Guinevere was placed in her grave, and he sickened and pined away.

"So perhaps Pat, who knew of all these sad goings-on ... was practising restraint and was working slowly."

Big Poster of Burma Received

As pleasant as the letter was, it has not caused one-third as much comment as the full-color, full-profile picture of Burma herself that was enclosed, inscribed "To the club members at Winthrop House, with my very best wishes."

House Committee Chairman Named

Chester W. MacArthur '37 was yesterday elected chairman of the House Committee, succeeding John Dorman '36.