March Enters the City With a Springy Step

March 2, 1972

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If there is any truth in the old saying, look out for something resembling an enormous, furious lion at the end of March.

The month gamboled in yesterday with such exhilarating warmth and sunshine that a middle‐aged man passing a young woman in Times Square said, “I love you.” And she replied, “I love you.”

“What we both meant,” he explained later, “was that it was a great day.”

For lovers of statistics, it was a record breaker. The 70‐year‐old record for March I was eclipsed at about noon, The new record, 73, is 10 degrees higher than the old and 30 degrees higher than the average maximum temperature for a March 1.

Despite a chance of rain, today will offer another sumptuous foretaste of spring, with a high temperature of about 60 degrees.

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