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Eliot's sea-Elephant captured the first half of the Inter-House basketball competition with a spotless record of four victories and no defeats. They also copped the laurels in the scoring department with their two stars. Henry Hibbard and George Boston finishing up one, two in that department.
No white man knew where or how King Lobengula of the Matabele had met his end. A bull elephant of a man, 6 ft. 2, and burdened with 200 wives, Lobengula was the last of the Zulu chieftains to make a stand for black independence. He vanished 50 years ago...
When Huxtable returned to Bulawayo, he told the story and said: "Lobengula was also called 'Ndhlovu,' meaning elephant. There are elephants everywhere in that far place. I feel he is not lonely."
The Chinese, trained and equipped by Americans in India, carried the heaviest burden in this opening phase of the continental offensive. In the tortuous jungle country before them, supply was the key to military success. The Jap relied on broad rivers, motor roads and elephant trails leading from his main...
>Saloons with such names as the Alley Cat, Collar and Elbow, Pick and Shovel, Graveyard, Pay Day. >Waitresses with such names as Skip Chute, Mag the Rag, Hay ride, The Race Horse, Take-Five Annie, Ellen the Elephant, Little Egypt.