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...swim them to their island and sell the foals. Paul Beebe (David Ladd). a spratling who lives on Chincoteague with his sister Maureen (Pam Smith) and a couple of story book grandparents (Arthur O'Connell and Anne Seymour), is desperate to own one of the wild ponies, a sorrel mare named, as horses in all properly run children's movies should be, The Phantom...
...scheming Mr. Peachum; both in his comedy bits and arias he is Peachum as Gay must have envisioned him. Zamah Cunningham as his wife, however, speaks her lines as if she were all too conscious of their comic intent. Jeanne Beauvais displayed a lovely voice as Lucy Lockit, and Sorrel Booke was properly ingratiating as the Beggar Poet...
Trackside dockers were not at all surprised to see the handsome sorrel-topped fellow open a big lead and then ease up. He won breezing. Then they looked at their watches again. In his qualifying heat for the 220-yd. dash at the Atlantic Coast Conference track meet in Durham, N.C. last week, long-legged (6 ft. 2 in., 187 Ibs.) Duke Sophomore Dave Sime (rhymes with skim) had run off a casual 0:20.1 to crack Mel Patton's seven-year-old world record by a tenth of a second. Next day, running into a light head wind...
Horses have all but disappeared from the battlefield, but now and then a 20th century warhorse turns up to keep alive the old traditions. Such an animal is Reckless, a beautiful little (eleven hands) sorrel mare who endeared herself to the 1st Marine Division in Korea...
Killin' & Drawin'. As their principal remedy, the quacks used a paste in an age-old combination: a "killin' salve" (sorrel and sweetgum bark) and a "drawin' salve" (chestnut-oak bark mixed with equal parts of "mutton tallow, pine resin and coon root"). For "small cancers, malignant or not": a salve made of the whites of two eggs, two teaspoonfuls of salt, one tablespoonful of bee honey, and a teaspoonful of bluestone dust...