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...trench, twelve feet long and six feet wide in good British soil at Carshalton, Surrey, workmen last week laid a ton of firewood and over that a wagonload of burnt oak and charcoal. This pyre was drenched with ten gallons of kerosene and ignited. When it had burned for eight hours and a wind had fanned the embers almost to white heat a scrawny young Hindu named Kuda Bux and a group of respectable-looking Britons appeared. Kuda Bux had promised that by faith he would walk barefooted across the glowing...
Firewalking is a common practice in India, in the South Sea Islands, in the Shinto temples of Japan. Explanations of how it is done differ widely. But the performance in Surrey made news on two continents because it was done under the eye of scientists who came with thermometers as well as skepticism...
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...
...Sherlock Holmes, the great criminal pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury (TIME, March 4 et seq.), was called on a case exactly to his taste when the potman of a pub in South London went nosing down into a cellar disused for years. Next door to the pub is the Old Surrey Theatre, now being torn down but in Queen Victoria's day the mecca of thrill-thirsty folk who loved to see dramas of ripe, purple blood and thunder...
Oxford got the better start. At Craven's Steps, Cambridge, pulling with an easier stroke, was three quarters of a length in front. The Cambridge coxswain, Duckworth, hugged the Surrey bank for smoother water. Close to shore, his shell got better run, led by three lengths at Hammersmith Bridge, half way on the 4¼-mile course. The Oxford coxswain, Bryan, steered smartly toward the Surrey side. For the first time in the race his boat kept up but at Duke's Meadow bend a strong tide-pull stole the gain. At Chiswick, with Oxford nearly four lengths...