At the of in 1937, one man in the packed pews at Westminster Abbey was seen with his head bowed and his lips moving constantly throughout the ceremony.The foreign , aristocrats and politicians around him assumed he must be praying. He was not. He was Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, a son of the richest family on the planet, and also a celebrated journalist.Hidden in his waistcoat was a pocket radio transmitter and his whispered commentary was being picked up by a receiver in a trailer parked outside the Abbey and beamed across the Atlantic to millions of U.S. listeners. It was a completely unauthorised broadcast — and a phenomenal scoop. Writer Robert Graves gleefully noted the story in his history of the interwar era, The Long Week-End
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