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...international championship for star boats-slim, 22-ft. sloops with tall Marconi mainsails and cockpits just big enough for two-started smoothly enough off Long Beach, Calif, last week. Young Eddie Fink of Long Beach, the defending champion, won the first race in his Movie Star II. Adrian Iselin II, the Bacardi Cup holder, who had brought his Ace, his crinkly smile, his old sailing hat and his crony Ed Willis from Port Washington. L. I., snooped out most of the light breezes in the second. Fink won the third race and seemed to be on the last tack...
Wherever there is blue water and a sheltered coast, you are likely to find "star" boats-slim little 22-footers with tall Marconi mainsails and narrow cedar hulls. Last week a galaxy of their pointed rigs sparkled in Havana Harbor, racing for two trophies which star boat skippers prize only a little less highly than the International Championship-the Cuba Cup, four feet high, biggest yachting cup in the world; and the Bacardi Cup, put up by the late rum-distilling Facundo Bacardi...
...fossil-finders, taking care to leave their finds undisturbed until trained diggers come, notify the National Research Council at No. 2101 Constitution Ave. N. W., Washington, D. C.-ED. Marconi's Parabola...
...issue of TIME carried an article entitled "Marconi's Parabola." I would like to know if any domestic radio companies have successfully developed transmitting and receiving equipment along these lines, and also whether Marconi has representation in this country...
...economizes the energy thrown into the ultra short waves. Theoretically those waves, which approach light waves in rapid brevity, should behave like light and travel only in straight lines. Theoretically such waves cannot bend around Earth's circumference and thus serve to carry messages long distances. But Inventor Marconi has been communicating with them across 180 mi. Says he: ". . . For some reason . . . the waves are deflected and travel further than they should according to theory...