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...seem silly to take the trouble to find out what the Zulu word for "home" is (we haven't found it yet); what the late President Calvin Coolidge's "cure" for seasickness was (if he had one); who "actually" was the first person to make ice cream (the evidence is inconclusive); how German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel had his flat feet fixed (he didn't). But the temptation to try to find the correct answer is irresistible-and the result goes into TIME'S morgue for the future use, or edification, of TIME'S editors...
...Matabele, a savage offshoot of the Zulu tribe, named their warrior king Lobengula ("He Who Drives Like the Wind"). But by 1880 the fat, short-winded monarch preferred to lie on his bed toying with the stolen diamonds he kept in a couple of kerosene cans, while his wives covered his naked body with gold sovereigns...
Allied troops who escaped from Italian prison camps told how Carnera had been selected as the hero of a Fascist propaganda movie illustrating the physical superiority of Italians over African Negroes. For this purpose, the propagandists chose an impressive opponent for Carnera: a burly, six-foot-three Zulu prisoner from the Army of South Africa, Kay Masaki. He had never boxed before. He was fed nothing for three days, then placed in the ring with Carnera. The cameras started grinding...
FAITH, REASON AND CIVILIZATION - Harold J. Laski- Viking ($2.50). OMNIPOTENT GOVERNMENT, THE RISE OF THE TOTAL STATE AND TOTAL WAR - Ludwig von Mises - Yale ($3.75). In their most recent books, Harold Laski and Ludwig von Mises write about the same world crisis. But a Zulu savage, should he be miraculously endowed with the ability to comprehend fairly complicated English, would hardly recognize it as the same. To Laski, the British socialist, the breakdown has been caused by a century of unbridled economic individualism and the cure is the traditional Marxist specific: let government take over the means of production...
...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 after a disastrous clash between his fierce native warriors and the colonists of Cecil Rhodes. The battle secured Rhodesia for the white men, blasted the last barrier to their march across Africa. In after years, white men heard that Lobengula had killed himself, that he had died of smallpox, that...