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...Savo Island. The Battle of Savo Island, Aug. 8, had left the newly landed Marines on Guadalcanal in a precarious position. "Generally speaking, we were surprised because we lacked experience," so the Japs sank four cruisers, the Vincennes, Astoria, Quincy and Canberra (Australian), damaged the cruiser Chicago and the destroyers Ralph Talbot and Patterson...
...Jimmy Savo had articles in both Vogue and Hobo News. Wrote the Italian castle-owning comedian in Vogue: "It is when I look at the map of Italy that I am sad, thinking of the poor mythical people living there in the little town within the walls of my castle." For the Hobo News the classically baggy and disheveled Savo explained: "My suit['s] . . . biggest advantage is that I can turn it into a night kimono after...
...that, in his opinion, too much war news is being suppressed and delayed by the Navy and (to a lesser degree) the Army. (Examples: the details of the Tokyo bombing were suppressed for a full year; the news of the loss of four U.S. cruisers in the Savo Island battle was delayed two months, while the loss of an Australian cruiser in the same engagement was reported almost immediately...
...Jimmy Savo, master of pantomime, finally replaced one of his trade-marks-the amorphous suit of clothes in which he has been clowning for 25 years. For a faithfully ill-fitting duplicate, he paid a Park Avenue tailor...
...battleships with enough speed to escort carriers, proved as well that it could take punishment. The 500-pounder caused so little damage that three weeks later, with Captain Gatch standing on the bridge with his left arm in a sling, the ship sailed into "Windy Gulch," between Guadalcanal and Savo, and helped win the great night battle of Guadalcanal by sinking four Japanese warships by gunfire...