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Died. John Broadus Watson, 80, pioneer psychologist ("behaviorism") and longtime (1924-46) advertising executive (J. Walter Thompson Co., William Esty & Co.); after long illness; in Manhattan. Borrowing from the work of Russian Physiologist Ivan Pavlov, Watson developed a theory that man's personality is merely a mass of conditioned reflexes, later turned his academic concept to cash as he mapped out early advertising campaigns (for Pond's Cold Cream) that exploited man's desire for personal prestige...
...country where history often repeats itself because its citizens react, like Pavlov's dogs, to bells rung by historical parallels, the Presidency of the Fifth Republic might well travel the same road as the Presidency of the Third...
...virus. Dmitry Pryanishnikov originated soil research, and world-famed Dmitry Mendeleev charted the elements and drew up the periodic scale still found in every high school laboratory. Had Aleksandr Popov worked a bit faster, he might well have wrested from Marconi credit for inventing the radio. In 1904 Ivan Pavlov won a Nobel Prize for his work on the conditioned reflex, and four years later, Ilya Mechnikov won another for his studies of the destruction of bacteria by white blood cells...
...Square. In Moscow, Soviet newspaper Pravda reported that a traffic cop named Pavlov stopped a funeral procession for a minor violation, forced the entire cortege to turn around and follow him to the nearest police station...
...effect of this discipline can already be seen in Russia. The cities are miraculously clean; few young people go to church, although everyone seems to worship Lenin and Pavlov, she noted. The greatest effect of this discipline, however, has been in the field of education...