Hedy Lamarr: `Hedy's Folly' bares a most improbable inventor

Hedy Lamarr was a gorgeous and seductive screen siren of the 1930s and '40s, but it turns out she wasn't just another pretty face. In his new book, Hedy's Folly, author Richard Rhodes reveals that Lamarr was a brilliantBelieve it or not, this essentially happened to Hedy Lamarr. Often proclaimed “the most beautiful woman in the world,” the 26-year-old Lamarr was thriving in Hollywood when, in mid-September 1940, Nazi U-boats huntedBy DOUGLASS K. DANIEL, AP "Hedy's

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