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About the nicest compliment Savo Radulovic ever got was a letter from a suburban housewife who came to see his paintings in a Philadelphia gallery last week. Before her visit, the lady wrote, her greatest ambition was to have "a mink stole and a sterling silver coffee service." Now, she would rather own a Radulovic...
...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...
Television Workshop (Sun. 4 p.m., CBS). Don Quixote, with Boris Karloff, Jimmy Savo...
...Americans, Australians, and the English admiral were responsible for the Savo Island catastrophe...
...they soon found what the island had in store for them. When the supporting Navy took a pasting in the Battle of Savo Island and went off to lick its wounds, the 1st was left alone on Guadalcanal with the Japanese, the jungle, malaria, dysentery, fungus disease. In control of the sea and air, the Japanese constantly reinforced their positions, managed to put 40,000 men on the island against the marines' 10,000. The 1st suffered hundreds of air raids and a devastating shelling from Japanese battleships and cruisers. One of Guadalcanal's heroes was Colonel Merritt...