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...Mafia!" One would almost expect to see "Spies" or "Micks" in a subsequent issue. Is no heritage sacred to you? Must we forever defend our background? Are we doomed to keep listing our contributions to mankind: Michelangelo, Marconi, Fermi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 6, 1977 | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

...would like D.A. Lunan to know that in 1920 Guglielmo Marconi told my father, Admiral Count Millo, that he was sure he had intercepted intelligent signals from out of space on the radio station of his yacht Electra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 21, 1973 | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

...that time there were no other radio stations on earth, except the ones Marconi had started in England and North America and the one on his yacht...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 21, 1973 | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

...DAVIDS. MARCONI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 19, 1973 | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

...long vision in a nearsighted world. Fuller grew up during an age of mechanical wizardry. In 1889, the Eiffel Tower revolutionized building. At the turn of the century Count Zeppelin had, in effect, laid a covered tower on its side, filled it with gas and floated off. Marconi sent a wireless message across the Atlantic. The Wright brothers flew, and off the Maine coast a boy named Bucky Fuller Tom-Swifted a rowing device-a combination jellyfish and umbrella that enabled him to pole through deep water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Whole Universe Catalogue | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

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