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Singers, politicians, Bankers Otto Kahn and Winthrop Aldrich and other personages at whom reporters usually rush when a ship enters New York Harbor, last week received skimpy attention at the arrival of the Conte di Savoia. The ship reporters rushed for Patrician Guglielmo Marconi, Nobel Laureate, Italian Senator and Marquis, inventor of commercial wireless, experimenter with ultra-shortwave radio communication. The reporters wanted to know all about Senator Marconi's latest work in "bending" short waves around the earth's curvature (TIME...
Everyone in the world named William (or Guillaume, Guglielmo, Willem, Wilhelm, Guilielmus, Guillermo, Guilherme) was invited to an international Congress of Williams in October 1934 at St. Brieuc, France to celebrate the 700th anniversary of the death of St. Guillaume Pinchon, Bishop of St. Brieuc who in 1225 saved thousands from famine by functioning as Brittany's food dictator...
Luxury-loving Inventor Guglielmo Marconi left Rome for London last week with an ultra-short-wave radio kit in his baggage, a query in his mind, and the intention of showing his British scientific friends his latest refinement of radio...
Married. Anne Marie Wallace, of Manhattan, great-great-granddaughter of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt; and Don Rodolfo del Drago. son of the late Prince Ferdinando del Drago; by Papal Secretary of State Cardinal Pacelli; in Rome. A witness for the groom: Senator Guglielmo Marconi...
Anniversary. Of the first transatlantic wireless signal, picked up by Guglielmo Marconi at St. John's, Newfoundland, 30 years ago; celebrated-with the greatest world-round radio hook-up ever effected. Recalling the event, Senator Marconi said that for six days, while "S" signals were being sent regularly from Poldhu, Cornwall, England, he and his assistants sent up kites and a balloon with aerial wires attached. A wild December storm raged, carried the balloon and most of the kites away. Finally a kite was flown successfully and on Dec. 12, above the electrical disturbances, three faint clicks came through...