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Senator & Mrs. Guglielmo Marconi on his yacht Electra anchored off Civitavecchia, Italy, talked via wireless telephone with President Karl August Bickel of the United Press, President David Sarnoff of Radio Corp. of America, and President M. H. Aylesworth of National Broadcasting Co., all in Manhattan. The conversation was broadcast. After Senator Marconi had expressed confidence in trans-Atlantic telephone television, international broadcasting and had commented on the new radio station abuilding at Vatican city (TIME, April 21), said Dona Maria Cristina Bezzi-Scala Marconi to President Sarnoff: "Have you heard the news...
...Marconi (laughing) : "I don't know...
Signer Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of transmission without wires and a devout Catholic, is daily supervising installation of the papal radio apparatus in a special one-story building from which sprout antennae 180 ft. high (but not higher than the dome of St. Peter...
...Marchesa Marconi, wife of the Marchese Guglielmo Marconi, told of entering a room where her husband was conducting radio experiments. "My husband kissed me. I saw sparks leaping from his body and felt that I was burned under the right eye. That's the result of marrying a man who is always meddling with radio and electricity...
Because they are not his friends, Il Duce saw no reason for including among his "Immortals" the inventor of wireless telegraphy, Guglielmo Marconi; the foremost Italian philosopher, Benedetto Croce, or that orchidaceous but heroic poet-conqueror who stole Fiume for grateful Italy, Gabriele D'Annunzio...