Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group for whom most can be done, and least is now being done, according to Putnam and Hood, are a majority of the brain-injury victims, i.e., those who have been crippled by such things as blows, encephalitis, or a sustained high fever in infancy. Their plight is often worse, in a way, than that of the mentally retarded, because they know they are different and yet cannot help their failures and seizures...
Nobody knows precisely how many cases there are like Billy's, but they number hundreds of thousands. Famed Neurosurgeon Tracy Jackson Putnam estimates the number of brain-injured persons in the U.S. at as many as 2,500,000. Of these, he says, 13% have cerebral palsy (in which the injury to the brain involves the motor centers), and for them, much is being done. Perhaps 30% are so mentally retarded (often because of birth injuries) that they can be given little but affectionate care...
...difference between the truly retarded and the salvageable brain-injured when he was hired to handle a class of Chinese "morons" in San Francisco. Most, he found, were not retarded at all, but their natural intelligence could not function normally because of their injuries. After he met Dr. Putnam (who has done as much as any man living to develop the use of drugs which now control epilepsy in two-thirds of its victims), Hood took over an abandoned mansion on West Adams Boulevard and started his special boarding school...
...United Press, came in third ($200). Top honors went to a picture of a more universal and more timeless theme-a soldier coming home from the wars (see cut). James N. Keen of the Louisville Courier-Journal won the $500 first prize for his shot of Captain Darrell J. Putnam, after 18 months in Korea, greeting his wife and the daughter he had never seen. In second place ($300): another Courier-Journal photo (by Lucie Becker), of a church picnic...
RIDE OUT THE STORM (470 pp.)-Roger Vercel-Putnam...