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Show "Wonder Child" Puzzle to Russian Physicians Moscow. Soviet Russia has produced pro-duced a "wonder child," a boy four years and ten months old, named' Victor, Vic-tor, son of a Vladivostok physician, who already wears a full beard of whiskers and is able to throw a full-grown full-grown man in a wrestling match. The learned professor, Leontief, and his colleague, Doctor Bosik, who examined exam-ined Victor, speak about hypertrophic! development, the thyroid, pancreatic and other glands and a "mysterious malady" from which the child Is suffering. suf-fering. But Victor continues to grow despite them and their treatment. The precocious infant, who walks stiffly and stumblingly, plays like a child and has a child's mentality, yet he can choke his small playmates black faced. He puzzles nofessors as the great country where he was born puzzles Western theorists. |