Word: savo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Launched April 19, 1943, the U.S. Navy's Canberra commemorated the Royal Australian navy's Canberra, sunk by torpedo and shellfire eight months earlier during the Battle of Savo Island in the company of U.S. cruisers Quincy, Vincennes and Astoria...
...exception to the rule that all U.S. cruisers are named after American cities, because the gallant Australian cruiser Canberra met its end along with three U.S. cruisers in the Battle of Savo Island...
With a green crew, Catch's ship downed 26 Japanese planes at Santa Cruz, helped turn back a Japanese task force off Savo Island, contributed importantly to the collapse, due to lack of supplies and reinforcements, of the Japanese drive on Guadalcanal's Henderson Field...
...have his art valued above material luxury was sweet praise for Radulovic, who knows the appeal of luxuries from having been so long without them. As a boy in Montenegro, Savo tended sheep. After his family emigrated to the U.S., he had to take a job at the age of 16 in an Illinois coal mine. Following a stint as a tool grinder in a Detroit auto plant, he attended night classes at Washington University's School of Fine Arts in St. Louis, got a fellowship to Harvard. He had his first Manhattan show in 1940, and the critics...
...begin with a pictorial concept, break it up and rebuild it on his own lines. Better yet, four of the paintings in the show were sold at the opening, one for $300, and nobody seemed outraged at the $1,000 price tags on some of the pictures. Exulted Savo. now 42: "This means I'll never again have to be a private detective...