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...Turkey, where close trading is a centuries-old art imbibed with mother's milk, the No. 1 mule trader is squat, swarthy Mahmout Safyurtlu. Last year, when Mahmout heard that EGA would pay for several thousand mules for Greece, he perked up his ears. Mahmout scurried to Athens, where he learned that the mules must be small, strong, good at climbing hills, not less than three years old, not more than nine, and 80% of them younger than seven...
...British high commissioner once deposed him because he ordered the flogging of a white trader who seduced Bamangwato women; London quickly restored the regent (TIME, Oct. 16, 1933). In 1947, when George VI & family visited Bechuanaland, Tshekedi greeted them in the full-dress uniform of the Royal Horse Guards, presented to his father by Queen Victoria...
...little clapboard house looks like a lot of others in Lamar, Mo. (pop. 4,500). But a large sign out front advertises its distinction. In 1882, John A. Truman, mule trader, bought the house for $685 and there Harry S. Truman was born...
...Dallas' Ross Avenue, Dealer Gene Goss ("Goss on Ross, the Tradin' Hoss") was just as idle. In San Francisco, "Horse Trader" Ed Shapiro, the city's biggest used-car dealer, was singing the blues. He had cut the price of an "almost new" 1948 Buick convertible, which he bought six months ago, from $3,295 to $2,395-and he still had it. Not long ago he sold "new-used" Packards for $200 above list price; now he is getting $800 below list. Among 1949 cars, only the Chevrolet still commanded a premium (about $300) over list...
...gauged the temper of mild, white-haired Federal Judge Albert L. Reeves with the eye of a mule trader sizing up a parson; after that he did everything but shoot off firecrackers under the judge's nose. He objected incessantly. He told bad jokes. He brayed, waved his arms, and quoted the Bible with enthusiastic piety. On one of those rare occasions when the judge reproved him, he replied obsequiously, "Beggars mustn't be choosers and I'm happy to get what you're gonna give me ... I subside." Then he would continue as before...