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Gloria Swanson and Hedy Lamarr each married six times; Ernest Borgnine and Martin Scorsese, five apiece. There's a word for this kind of person: amateur. Following is a list of those who took serial-vow taking seriously...
...HEDY LAMARR'S PATENT...
...terrible job of reporting on Hedy Lamarr's being recognized by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for her patent in the electronic frequency-hopping technology used in satellite and cellular phones [PEOPLE, March 17]. You trivialized her achievement by referring to her nude appearance in the film Ecstasy when she was just a teenager. Nine years later, without recompense, she gave her patent to the U.S. As a refugee from a fascist state, she is in the company of Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi and many other notable people. BURTON SEIWELL Nuremberg, Pennsylvania
...Hedy Lamarr is always ahead of her time. In 1933 she pranced naked onscreen in Ecstasy. Now Lamarr, 82, is being recognized for a different breakthrough. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is honoring her for a 1942 patent that anticipated frequency-hopping technology used in satellites and cellular phones...
TECHNOLOGY: Ken Baierlein, Hope Almash, David Richardson (Managers); Nora Jupiter, Kevin Kelly, George Mendel, Peter K. Niceberg, Michael M. Sheehan, Lamarr Tsufura...