Show c DOCTORS HOPE TO DRIVE 0 OUT UT r I IMP AND RETAIN GENIUS l l f. f rH f za x t ti 1 d ft ft's Ll S r s r rS tw s S1 l 4 r CLYDE MAXAM By GEORGE BRITTNEA BRITT BRITTNEA N NEA EA Service Writer MILWAUKEE MIL WIs Nis March 1 LImp L- L Imp and genius dwell together Inthe inthe in inthe the chubby body of 6 year old Clyde Maxam MaCam How to drive out the one and andI retain the other or to curb the one 1 and encourage the other has been I the problem baffling Milwaukee physicians and psychopaths for four years rears But it can be done specialists declare Challenged by the scientific pr problem problem blem b- b lem and implored by by the the childs child's despairing parents they are are se seek seeking kIng k- k ing to develop little Clyde Clyd nto into aman a aman I Iman man who will express his genius self Meanwhile the child lives his contradictory jangled life life- I One moment he shows intelli intelligence gence Jence far above his years ears the next he may explode in a tantrum and I hurl a knife at his mother I His memory is remarkable and I h he has a mechanical knack d In operating a complicated train Usually he is 18 quite affectionate II but when the strange cloud hovers ho he will attack his parents and once displaying abnormal strength nearly strangled his father Music infuriates him Clydes Clyde's violent outbreaks began when he was 2 years old following luring During his a I spell of pneumonia illness he was unconscious for tor more than two days The case now Is in charge of Dr Paul Rupp who is studying I th- th the boy in a sanitarium Dr II Douglas Singer and Dr David M M. r. r I Lev Levy Chicago psychopathic experts ex experts experts ex- ex to whom the case was de described described de- de scribed agreed that Clydes Clyde's aberration aberration aberration aber aber- ration is ig I probably due to uncontrolled uncontrolled uncontrolled trolled emotion And And the childs child's brilliance of ot mind his genius would be preserved pro pre served under the treatment they pre pre-I suggested 1 In n a similar I case I had a a. boy boj I o egocentric I Dr Levy egocentric I Dr Levy was an anThe says The world centered in his per personality person cm- cm He was the deity and reco recognized no guidance or ur restraint restrain He H fo fought his parents as in this case And we did him a great deal of good at the Chicago Institute for Juvenile Research The treatment may mai sound prosaic prosaic pro- pro But it is simply to put him himIn himin himin in an environment of ot order and calm and insure plenty of rest Then let him vent his emotional outbursts on orb o inanimate objects chopping down trees and digging in a garden Finally there is supervised super play with other children I |