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...What Marconi Wrought Last November station KFDA's Art Holt of Amarillo, Texas set a world's nonstop endurance record for disk jockeys: six days and six nights. Last week Disk Jockey Ray Briem, 26, of Salt Lake City's KLUB, putting on LPs for trips to the bathroom and catnaps, spun, gabbed and wheezed his way to a new record: six days, six nights and six hours...
...Secrets. One day last week at teatime, Nasser's government rounded up two Britons and half a dozen Egyptians. Shortly thereafter, the Egyptian information chief announced that the two Englishmen-James Swinburn, 51, of the British-owned Arab News Agency and Charles Pittuck, 47, of the Marconi Radio & Telegraph Co. had made a "complete confession." According to the government spokesman, Swinburn headed "a dangerous espionage ring which worked for British intelligence and supplied it with information about the Egyptian armed forces." Swinburn's cook had told all, and Swinburn had been arrested just as he was about...
...creative thinking. We have become a nation of improvers, adjusters, takers-apart, putters-together, dissectors, bisectors, inspectors, assemblers and reassemblers. The average American proudly thumps his breast, pointing with complacency to our vast quantity of technologically "superior" wealth. Where are the minds to match the intellectual curiosity of Edison, Marconi, Alexander Bell, Henry Ford or the Wright brothers...
...Department of Propaganda and Agitation, lectured on agriculture, published "The Great Soviet People" (1947), an attack on the Marshall Plan ("which deprives many a European country of sovereignty and transforms them into appendages of the monolithic capitalism of America"), claimed Russian scientists had been ahead of Lavoisier, Marconi and Edison in scientific discoveries...
...Paris court saw a small French farce played and produced by Playwright-Actor Sacha Guitry, 67, his fourth wife, Geneviève de Sèreville, and his fifth, the former Lana Marconi. In the role of plaintiff, Guitry charged that wife No. 4 had continued to use the name Madame Guitry, which led to "much confusion," particularly when wife No. 5 kept getting No. 4's bills. Guitry asked the court to award him 20,000 francs ($60) every time Geneviève used his name. Said Geneviève in defense: Sacha had said when they were...