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Tom Slick, Hedy Lamarr the Normandy and Other Things: Lab Book for 2026-06-28/29

 I haven't mentioned my portfolio site here before, but I did manage to fix page view tracking on it today, so that's kind of nice. It was the final project for a class I took at City College San Francisco and highly recommend. The Hedy Lamarr Mystery I'm starting work on the mystery  of Hedy Lamarr aboard the Normandy today. I've researched all the passengers aboard the ship, and Hedy Lamarr, whose name at birth was Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, is not listed as a passenger. There's a ham radio bent to this as well. Hedy invented and patented frequency hopping spread spectrum radio. Hedy Lamarr We know that she was a passenger based on several first hand accounts, including her own, that it was while on ship that she negotiated her hollywood deal with Louis B. Mayer. The lore has it that she was posing as the governess of Grisha Goluboff , a 14 year-old violin virtuoso from San Francisco at the suggestion of Goluboff's manager Isadore Nob el. Although, accordin...