[I took the photo down. Too many irrelevant hits.]
"Any girl can be glamorous," Hedy Lamarr said. "All you have to do is stand still and look stupid."
I like this column in today's Register, as a father and as a man:
Interesting that the author leads with Hedy Lamarr but leaves out this neat facet:
Allied subs, it seems, were wasting torpedoes. Ocean currents and evasive action worked against them. Lamarr and Antheil meant to do something about that. The solution, they reasoned, was a radio-controlled torpedo. But it would be easy for the enemy to jam a radio-control signal. So they cooked up something called "frequency-hopping." The trick was to set up a sequencer that would rapidly jump both the control signal and its receiver through 88 random frequencies. They patented the system and gave it to the Navy...
I still like Katharine Hepburn better, but Hedy Lamarr certainly met the columnists qualifications:
If we do not want our daughters to stand still and look stupid, we must show them by example that the most glamorous women in the world are those who are intelligent, independent, opinionated and ambitious.
Works for me.
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