Word: kuda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Ripley program took its microphones to Manhattan's Rockefeller Center parking lot to tell listeners that a Hindu mystic, Kuda Bux, was walking barefoot over burning coals. When Kuda Bux demonstrated his fire-walking to British scientists three years ago, they found this stunt genuine, favored the theory that his power is athletic, not psychic, lie in a trained ability to step lightly, quickly...
...Ripley broadcast, frenzied Announcer Graham McNamee took the microphone and, with customary hysteria, burbled his story of Kuda Bux walking twice through 20 feet of fire. Actually, the fire was in two separate ten-foot pits...
Kindled eight hours earlier, it had been fed by three cords of oak, 500 lb. of charcoal. When flames flickered over the glowing coals and a pyrometer recorded the heat at 1,220° F., light-footed Kuda Bux took three long hoppity steps through one pit, hopped out on solid ground. Later he tried it again, again achieved only half of what Fictioneer McNamee reported...
...surgeon inspected Kuda Bux's feet. They were not in the least burned; the strip of adhesive tape was not even scorched...
None of these explanations seemed to cover the case of Kuda Bux in Surrey. The logical man to ask about it was Dr. Charles Aubrey Pannet of University of London and St. Mary's Hospital, the surgeon who examined Bux's feet before and after the ordeal. But Dr. Pannet flatly refused to comment, said he would save his remarks for publication in the Lancet, British medical weekly...