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...Brent's arms, secure in the knowledge that he will be waiting for her after she serves her jail sentence. Helping to make this horse opera practically indistinguishable from its numerous predecessors is the presence in the cast of gravel-voiced Andy Devine as a bearded itinerant trader...
Heinrich Oberjohann is a bring-'em-back-alive man, and he probably knows as much about elephants in the raw as anybody living. In the '30s, Animal Trader Carlo Hagenbeck sent him out to kidnap a few calves from the great herds which still roam the noxious swamps around Lake Chad, in North Central Africa. He lived for four years within scent of elephants -"I became an elephant myself." In Komoonl (Berberi dialect for elephant) he tells what it was like. Author Oberjohann is no scientist; some of his conclusions about the big animals will strain the faith...
...world trader, Ken Parker has a short answer to those who fear that cheap labor will enable foreign manufacturers to undersell in the U.S. if tariffs are eliminated. Says he: "We'll take our chances on U.S. production and merchandising savvy any time against all comers. And with the bars down in both directions, U.S. manufacturers would have access to the two billion consumers in the world, instead of only 150 million at home...
...Horse Trader & Broker...
Slumping Harem. The ocean bred its gay as well as its devil dogs. One of the gayest, Alexander Hare, a rich English trader, settled on one of the beautiful atolls of the Cocos-Keeling Islands in 1827 with a slave harem of 117 beauties from Malaya, Java, Bali and points east. A former partner and prior claimant, John Clunies-Ross, a Scot, soon showed up with his family and a crew of predatory bachelors. To keep them out of what he called his "flower garden," the latter-day Solomon ladled out rum to Ross's men, penned his women...