REMARKABLE BRAIN

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1666, 24 September 1925, Page 3

REMARKABLE BRAIN

The easiest way to describe Mr \Harry Kahne, an American, who has the uncanny faculty of doing half ,a dozen things at once, and doing them well, is "The Man With Six Brains." ißefore a London audience recently he read a newspaper; wrote the headlines upside down and backwards on a blackboard, at the same time spelling the words the right way; spoke continuously to his audience; answered questions giving the exact populations and industries of the biggest towns of the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States; wrote backwards and upside down columns of figures which aggregated 7,123,546,937, a figure previously agreed upon by the audience. All this was done in almost as little.time as it takes to read. He then gave another demonstration of an equally complicated nature, varied by hanging upside' down by his feet from a moving trolley overhead, and reciting Kipling's "it."

■ Scientists and psychologists are baffled by Mr Kahne's ability to make his brain work on half a dozen things at the same time (says the Daily Chronicle). Mr Kahn does not know how he does it; it comes naturally. "All I am conscious of," he said, "is a vivid mental picture of each subject brought up, and the faculty of being able to concentrate on each one simultaneously." Mr Kahne, who is 28, did not always find his freakish-working brain an unmixed blessing, for as a boy he was expelled from school for being too rapid in his replies to difficult questions and answering for the whole class.