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...Springfield, Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson, 49, inaugurated in his first term last January, agreed to a separation (and an uncontested divorce later) from Socialite Ellen Borden Stevenson, 40, after 20 years of marriage, three children. Deploring "the incompatibility of our lives," the governor declared: "I am deeply distressed . . . We have separated with the highest mutual regard...
Never Mind Your Manners. Almost as extreme as his bitterness against the Freudians is Salter's veneration of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, the physiologist who coined the term "conditioned reflex." (Pavlov's classic example: a dog which has heard a bell ring whenever it was fed will eventually drool whenever it hears the bell, even though no food is offered.) The behaviorist school is founded on what Salter calls "the firm scientific bedrock of Pavlov." Its main tenet: man is a creature of habit; he can be "conditioned" to the habit of not even hearing a pistol fired next...
...longest-term resident was Professor George Herbert Palmer, whence the second half of the building's name. Palmer, a well-known classical scholar who claimed genially that he "existed on the decay of Greece," lived there from 1894 until 1933. On his initiative, the astronomer's "caboose" was finally taken off the roof and some of the interior remodelled. Dean Gummere used the building for a few years before the war, and after Pearl Harbor, when the Navy moved into President Conant's house, President Conant moved into the Dana Palmer house. He moved out just before it migrated across...
...student isn't in, the process-server leaves a card saying, "A messenger from the Lamont Library has been to your quarters for the following titles! *** Kindly return them immediately. There will be a messenger foe of 75 cents added to your term bill...
Harvard's sailing team takes on its second regatta of the term today and tomorrow when it goes after the Danmark Trophy at New London...