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...Brain-Trusters. Shrewd-eyed Earl Puckett learned to spot a good bargain from his father, a horse trader who ran a 120-acre farm in Wayne County, Ill. Seeing no future in farming, young Earl learned to be an accountant by mail. But he put his horse sense to good use when he became comptroller of Loeser's department store in Brooklyn in 1928. He revamped Loeser's antiquated accounting system, helped keep it on an even keel when the Wall Street crash swamped many a retail store, became its $50,000-a-year president in 1931. Three...
...Banks Are Paid. When he was still in high school at Cincinnati, Walter Schott got some horse-trader's advice from his father, a cattleman: "Be a salesman, always a salesman. Even if you're buying, be a salesman." Schott never forgot the advice. At 18 he hustled off to Richmond, Ind. with his 15-year-old bride, got a job as an auto salesman...
...freeze, the cotton exchanges agreed, was unworkable. It left the price of cotton on the farm uncontrolled, but put ceilings on all cotton after it is shipped to the gin. Since the futures exchanges deal in contracts on ginned cotton, that meant that every trader had to compute his own ceiling (i.e., the highest price paid during the Dec. 19-Jan. 25 period). The exchanges had no way of helping to keep track of those innumerable ceilings, or enforcing them; hence they closed down. With both spot and futures markets closed, the cotton mills could not buy the cotton they...
Diogène Cyprien, prosperous Haitian trader, had only one serious weakness: women. Otherwise, he was a most estimable citizen, honest in business and kind to his children. When his old mother died, he promised her to abide by most of the Christian virtues, but he drew the line at being faithful to his wife. And when he set eyes on the luscious Lourdes, with her full mouth and hypnotic eyes, he knew temptation had struck again. He went on another fling...
...conniving, he is almost convincing. But when he is serious, as in the mawkish Wheel-of-Life discussions with his Lama, he becomes a male Margaret O'Brien. In addition to his point-scoring activities, Errol Flynn also swings through a few harems as a red-bearded horse trader seeking recreation...