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

Richard Rhodes, author of two of my favorite books of all time (Making of the Atomic Bomb and Dark Sun), has written a book about one of the most intriguing people of the 20th century, Hedy Lamarr, big-time HollywoodBlog entry about Hedy Lamarr: Actress and Inventor.Given the success that the screen siren Hedy Lamarr achieved in that realm—revealed in Richard Rhodes's fascinating biography, Hedy's Folly—it's a pity more of them don't consider it. In 1940, while acting

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