Word: bini
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...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m.). Arturo Toscanini returns, conducting Cheru-bini's Mass in C Minor...
Electric Current. Four years ago, two doctors in Rome named Ugo Cerletti and L. Bini passed an electric current through a dog's brain, gave him a mild convulsion without doing him any harm. They next attempted to faradize psychiatric patients back to normality. Dr. Lothar Kalinowsky of Berlin introduced the new technique to Paris and London, is now working in Manhattan's New York State Psychiatric Institute...
...years that followed, only a handful of white travelers followed them. In the early 16th Century one King of Benin ordered his whole nation converted to Christianity in exchange for a white wife, provided by Portuguese missionaries. The conversion was short-lived, though later generations of the Bini adopted wholeheartedly the custom of crucifying their human sacrifices. By 1896 Britain had already established control of the coast of Nigeria, was eager to trade with forbidden Benin in the interior. Acting Consul General Phillips, eager to hurry matters, sent a message to grinning black King Overami of Benin, asking permission...
Most appealing to moderns is the great King Oguola, traditionally fourth king of the Bini. Since his people were rich and peaceable and his slaves had little to do, he sent 20,000 of them into the forest to dig a ditch about 40 feet wide, 20 feet deep. "Not for war," explained King Oguola. "But when I die and people say 'Who was Oguola?' they will hear 'he was the King that dug the Big Ditch...