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South Africa's version of "white mule" is a raw, locally distilled brandy which scalds its way down the throats of South Africans of all shades and colors at the rate of some 3,330,000 gallons a year. In the dingy shebeens (speakeasies) dotting the big-city slums, any man with a stomach strong enough to imbibe this fiery liquid in greater quantities than his neighbors becomes the official "Brandy King" of the district. Brave is the toper who dares challenge his asbestos insides...
...Slick," both pimps; "Treetop Tall" and "Coal Oil Johnny," two policemen; "Speedway," a gambler; and "Dr. Scissors," a famed Beale Street medicine man. They frequented such dives as Peewee's, a citadel of early jazz, the Hole in the Wall, and such infamous gambling dens as the Grey Mule and Hamet...
Humming through Georgia one night in his brand-new Oldsmobile, Georgia's ex-Governor Herman Talmadge, on his way home from a rousing speech to some farmers, ran into one of his state's worst rural problems. Two stray mules suddenly loomed up before his car on the road. "I hit one and turned over," recalled Talmadge. "It killed the mule. I'm just a little bruised." His car was a total wreck. Though his victim was out of the harness for good, Talmadge was soon fitted for one by doctors: X-ray photos showed that...
...State Court of Appeals, then to the Georgia Supreme Court as an associate justice. He resigned in 1922, and went back to Vienna to handle the estate of his late father-in-law, hard-bitten old Joseph Heard, a cotton grower, undertaker, warehouseman, building contractor and mule trader, whose bouncing, irrepressible daughter Lucy had become George's wife in 1903. One lazy summer afternoon George was fishing on the Flint River near Vienna when he got word of the death of rabble-rousing Senator Tom Watson, bitter isolationist and onetime Populist Party candidate for President. George...
...shepherds and Irish peasants, congealed into Lancastrians by the Industrial Revolution. With its deepwater port of Liverpool (pop. 790,000), its damp climate and plentiful coal, Lancashire was for a century the cotton clothier of half the world. Lancashire men invented the first machines of mass production (the Crompton mule, the spinning jenny), were the first to use steam to drive them. But the price of industrial precocity, in an age that was unprepared for it, was paid by the people of Lancashire. In Lancashire's "dark, satanic mills" children labored twelve hours a day, women grew...