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Wilde Postcard. It is often hard to disagree with the judgment. Born in Rome in 1880 and grandiosely christened Guglielmo Alberto Wladimoro Alessandro Apollinaire Kostrowitzky, the future poet was in fact the bastard son of a beautiful Polish courtesan and an unknown man, possibly of noble blood. "Your father a sphinx," Apollinaire once bitterly gibed at himself, "your mother a one-night stand." At 19, he was helping his mother swindle a hotelkeeper in Belgium out of three months' food and lodging. At 20, when a young English governess refused to accept his hand in marriage, he threatened...
Cambridge City Councillor Joseph A. Guglielmo '28 isn't talking, but reports in Washington indicate that President Kennedy may appoint him to the United States Circuit Court...
...Guglielmo, a City Councillor for many years and a former Mayor of Cambridge, said last night that he "doesn't know anything about a judgeship," but admitted that he, too, "has heard reports in Washington that the appointment would be forthcoming...
Although he voted for Sullivan's a meeting, Councillor Joseph Guglielmo sugested that the invitation to Harvard "is an invasion of privacy and said "it is not fair to ask any citizen what he is going to do with his property...
Done up in a white tie and swallow-tailed coat, 56-year-old Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of radio, addressed Pope Pius XI on Feb. 12, 1931: "Holy Father, the world is listening. Speak." Said the Pope: "Listen, O heavens, listen, O earth, listen, all peoples, lend your ear all of you who inhabit the globe...