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Show (Copy for Thl Depart r-i Sirpplled by the Amorlcan Letrlon i?ws Service.) TRE MAN WITH DOUBLE BRAIN Hayward Thompson, Memory Shocked During World War, Writei With Both Hands. The majority of us do well to write legibly with either of our hands, but when a man la found who can write with both hands simultaneously, simultane-ously, and more than that when he can write forward for-ward with one hand and backward back-ward with the other, It Is evident evi-dent that he haa a perfect right t the title of "Mystery "Mys-tery Man." Hay- ward Thompson, an ex-service man In Denver, Colo., Is just such a man. Due to a severe Injury to his head, received during the war, he has what is known as a "double brain." One side of this brain directs the writing of one hand while the other side governs gov-erns the other hand. Thompson's memory reaches back only to the time when he left a hospital hos-pital some months ago. He remembers remem-bers nothing of his life before that time. It was through the veterans' bureau that he established his Identity Iden-tity as Hayward Thompson. Of his famHy, former friends, his work and home before the war and his activities activ-ities during the war, he has been able to learn nothing. The veterans' bureau bu-reau and the Colorado department of ---- :.a'--"-ifrc"-."urlcan Legion have been making mak-ing every effort to help Thompson leam t his past. |