Word: savo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jimmy Savo, past master of comic pantomime, was busy figuring out new comedy routines. Place: a Manhattan hospital. Occasion: convalescence from the amputation of his tumorous right leg. Fey-and-wistful Savo, now 54, was keeping his chin up. "I've always kept it up," said he, "ever since I was eight years old, when I balanced a 48-pound wheel...
Official "errors," Pratt conceded, are a concomitant of war. "The novelty ... is the continuing official insistence that the official lies were perfectly true. ... A flat lie from the Navy Department about the loss of the cruisers off Savo Island eventually had to be corrected. . . . The really dangerous, because far more numerous, instances are those in which no corrective has been applied . . . because the event is not sufficiently newsworthy to bother with after the facts do become known...
...time. On the blackest night in U.S. naval history, off Savo Island, the Japs destroyed the Allied cruisers Astoria, Quincy, Vincennes and Canberra. Pat, hit and hurt, stood by and picked up 400 survivors. It was the kind of work expected of destroyers. They were the tin cans and expendable...
...years Fish Ball was kept alive by long-memoried minstrels. Jimmy Savo made the newest recording of the modern version for Decca. But bobby-soxers already knew the recordings of Josh White, Tony Pastor, the Andrews Sisters...
...Belmont Park last week, never-beaten Pavot (rhymes with Jimmy Savo) toyed with 14 rival two-year-olds. Despite an injured hoof, he added the Futurity Stakes (winner's share $52,200) to his seven previous victories, for a first-season total earnings of $180,350. So doing, he placed himself squarely behind a traditional eight ball: in 54 years, not one Futurity winner (Man o' War and Top Flight included) has won the Kentucky Derby the following spring...