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...World War II turns out as the British are positive it will, some day a biography will be written of ginger-haired, dynamitish Admiral Sir John Cronyn Tovey, 55, now Commander in Chief of Britain's Home Fleet. Footnote material to such a work was orally contributed by one of his former shipmates who arrived last week in Manhattan from Suez (via the Cape of Good Hope) aboard the Empress of Asia with several hundred other British veterans of battles in the Mediterranean and campaigns along its shores. Said Sir John's former shipmate (insisting naturally that...
...will attack and two will ram,' he says to the captain. 'Will we attack, sir?' the Captain says, probably thinkin' that Tovey, bein' the admiral, might pick the easier of the jobs. 'No, you bloody fool, we'll ram!' old Splash says. Just then the Warspite* behind us signaled and asked him what the bloody hell he was doin'. 'Am pursuin' small detachment of Italian destroyers,' he signals back. But somehow the Warspite and some more of our battleships got in between us and them, and that...
...Admiral Sir Charles M. Forbes, 59, Commander in Chief of the Home Fleet, directly under Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, top man in all the Navy, was substituted Vice Admiral John C. Tovey (rhymes with covey). This change precisely paralleled the recent substitutions of Sir Alan Brooke for Lord Gort in the Army, of Sir Charles Portal for Sir Cyril Newall in the R. A. F. Tough "Jack" Tovey, lean and electric, is the man who, commanding the destroyer Onslow at Jutland, engaged first the cruiser Wiesbaden, then the battleship Derfflinger, with only his torpedoes and four-inch guns; stopped fighting...
Last Monday Critic Lawrence Oilman had the sniffles. Reading Donald Tovey's recondite Essays in Musical Analysis, he came across a sentence which made him hop out of bed and call up NBC's Musical Commentator Samuel Chotzinoff. Did Mr. Toscanini know that Wagner's original prelude to the third act of Tannhauser, which got only one performance (at the opera's world premiere, 1845), was much longer than the one usually played? Arturo Toscanini, who has a memory like a telephoto camera, could remember having seen some such score. On Tuesday a phone call...
...work. Menuhin replied with an enthusiastic endorsement and a request for performing rights, encouraged Strecker to contest the provisions of Joachim's will. Meantime in England a remarkable claim was advanced, remarkably supported by Critic Richard Capell (London Daily Telegraph) and internationally famed Musicologist Sir Donald Francis Tovey. The claim: that the violinist, Jelly D'Aranyi, grandniece of Joachim, had "discovered" the existence of the "lost" concerto while interviewing Schumann's ghost at a spiritualist seance. Miss D'Aranyi wanted the performing rights for herself, had announced that she would give the world premiere...