Classy Women
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JRhoBurton
All roads lead to music
Yup!
Wow... geez.Hedy Lamarr
Gail Fisher - a woman with alot of class
Just so you know where you have seen her before, she co-starred on Mannix.
Enjoy,
Rich P
Just so you know where you have seen her before, she co-starred on Mannix.
Enjoy,
Rich P
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Hedy Lamarr
More than just a pretty face, also:
At the beginning of World War II, Lamarr and composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes, which used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers. Though the US Navy did not adopt the technology until the 1960s, the principles of their work are now incorporated into modern Wi-Fi, CDMA and Bluetooth technology, and this work led to their being inducted into theNational Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.
Grace Kelly
Always laughed at the amount of stuff she pulled out of her mini suitcase in Rear Window:
A different kind of class:
Alleta Sullivan, mother of the five Sullivan brothers all of whom died when their ship was sunk at the Battle of Guadalcanal during WW2.
Alleta became an important figure in the war effort. She volunteered at the United Serviceman’s Organization (USO) to help make life easier for troops stateside and abroad. With her husband and daughter, Alleta visited more than 200 manufacturing plants and shipyards offering encouragement to employees in the hopes their efforts would bring the war to an end sooner. By January 1944, Alleta and her family had spoken to more than a million workers in 65 cities and reached millions of others over the radio.
The letter she is reading is reprinted here:
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/09/it-was-hard-to-give-five-sons-to-navy.html
Alleta Sullivan, mother of the five Sullivan brothers all of whom died when their ship was sunk at the Battle of Guadalcanal during WW2.
Alleta became an important figure in the war effort. She volunteered at the United Serviceman’s Organization (USO) to help make life easier for troops stateside and abroad. With her husband and daughter, Alleta visited more than 200 manufacturing plants and shipyards offering encouragement to employees in the hopes their efforts would bring the war to an end sooner. By January 1944, Alleta and her family had spoken to more than a million workers in 65 cities and reached millions of others over the radio.
The letter she is reading is reprinted here:
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/09/it-was-hard-to-give-five-sons-to-navy.html
My favorite quote from her when talking to Johnny Carson ,
Pleshette's down-to-earth but elegant manner was caught during an anecdote that Carson was relating to her about working with a farm tractor in Nebraska. When he asked her, "Have you ever ridden on a tractor?" she replied smoothly, "Johnny, I've never even been in a Chevrolet."
