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...worker, bent the church rules a little bit and had the kids perform at V.F.W. halls and Moose lodges, doing a country act as the Traywick Brothers. (Randy changed to his current moniker when he signed with Warner Bros. Records, which suggested that "Travis" might sound a little . . . well, fleeter...
...only has a poor arm but stirs prayer in the breast of Manager Casey Stengel every time he wanders after a fly ball. Behind the plate, both the Yankees' Yogi Berra and Elston Howard have arms strong enough to discourage any base-stealing ambitions of the generally fleeter Pirates...
Today dinosaurs are the chief delight of museum habituees; tomorrow the horse will supersede them. Already there are the beginnings of a horse mythology; this famous horse who could pull an impossible number of tons without straining a muscle, that one who was fleeter than the wind. Black Beauty threatens to become an epic. And in the present month, Mr. Will James writes the history of Smoky, a horse, and is greeted by the enthusiastic applause of critics. It is well that the animal who worked unceasingly for hundreds of years should be sentimentalized, and, if possible, immortalized. Far less...
...Moon has sharp eyes, he may have noticed little specks moving through the gray-green scum of Earth's land, sea and inner atmosphere?specks far fleeter than the ones he had noticed in previous centuries crawling over the wide watery expanses; specks that now flit in a few days' time from sea to sea, from continent to continent...
...When careful Terence, fleeter than the Wind...
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