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372 biography Vol. 4, No. 4 Watson's child rearing advice attempts to explain why he thought adjustment and independence were so necessary. If Ullmann had the least sense of humour, he would realize that on page 273 the sentence, "His habits were wearing out," is a deliberate irony. Watson liked to compare human beings to enormously sophisticated machines, and machines do "wear out." Ullmann is right about my referring to the Pentagon in 1917 as a mistake. For that I apologize. I am only moved to make these pedantic ripostes because Ullmann seems to me set on a peculiar piece of academic snobbery. Only university -wrapped psychologists have the right to write seriously about psychology . That is nonsense, and it seems that in avid pursuit of such nonsense, Ullman tries inaccurately to make me look foolish by quoting me utterly out of context. Ullmann is quite entitled to think my book dull, to disagree with my reading of Watson and to argue whatever he chooses, but he should have pointed out (as has, incidentally, every other reviewer) that this is, at least, the first ever biography of Watson. Academic psychologists in all their glory have never bothered to even give a proper account of his rather important career. David Cohen London Erratum The following correction should be made in J. Lawrence Mitchell's review of Recollections of the Powys Brothers, which appeared in the spring, 1981 issue of Biography. In line 17, p. 186, after the sentence ending " 'he was my first living idol' (p. 196)," there should appear: "Maurice Browne, a Cambridge contemporary of LP, also had American connections—he moved to the USA and founded the Chicago Little Theater. Thus his recollections of JCP (drawn from his autobiography , Too Late to Lament, 1955) confirm the magnetic affect that JCP had upon audiences as a lecturer." ...

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